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Name: | Watership Down |
Hill number: | 7812 |
Height: | 237m / 778ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2906 Walbury Hill |
RHB Section: | 42: South-East England & the Isle of Wight |
County/UA: | Hampshire |
Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Test, Thames |
Watershed: | Greater Thames Estuary, Land's End to Dover, Dover to Cape Wrath, The Solent |
Class: | Tump (200-299m), Subhump, Clem (Tu,2,sHu,Cm) |
Grid ref: | SU 49515 56815 |
Summit feature: | trig point |
Drop: | 94.9m |
Col: | 142.1m SU 4664 5665 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 174 (1:25k) 144W |
Survey: | Abney level |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 91 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Not a bunny in sight. Approached from the west along Wayfairer's Walk after visiting Ladle Hill. Stepped over low rusty gate to hp and trig in field. Descended down NW slope then followed road back to van past Quarry Cottages, through Sydmonton, back to van. Well chuffed, only 4.5 miles total but longest hike of achilles rehab to date. | mntainman | 17/02/2024 |
2nd of 6 summit loop. Slight detour off track, trig point at top, no view as low clouds. | fnem | 04/12/2022 |
Combined with Ladle Hill. Horses still with me as pacemakers. Good job they didn't break into a gallop. Great views. | Campbell Singer | 05/01/2022 |
Started from Ecchinswell, up the north face, across the top, down through Sydmonton. Fab. No rabbits :-( | cjwilliams | 28/12/2021 |
Easy roadside parking to W. Quick out and back. | PGCE | 05/12/2021 |
Star Inn to St Mary's Church, Kingsclere. Revisit. | Smudge | 12/11/2021 |
Circuit of Ladle Hill and Watership Down from Sydmonton. Delightful walk on clear paths | Colin Crawford | 17/10/2021 |
With CreakingHiker | tim747 | 27/07/2021 |
With Tim747. Parking at roadside opposite path up to summit. Not a rabbit in sight! | CreakingHiker | 27/07/2021 |
White Hill - The Gallops circular walk | Basingstone | 11/05/2021 |
Easy summit trig point just behind barbed wire in private field | freethehilltops | 12/04/2021 |
From the car park on B3501. Watership Down, Ladle hill following Wayfarers Walk. Plenty of people about taking advantage of a break in the rain and the allowed amount of exercise during lockdown 2. Back to the car park and then to Cottington's hill in the rain. | Buck | 15/11/2020 |
Cycled with Dad. | AJScourfield | 20/09/2020 |
From Ladle Hill, down a strip of access land then across the top of the downland, visiting the trig point, to the car park above White Hill. Very nice 3h walk, using access land on scarp one way and along the whaleback downland ridge the other, with little retrace. Mostly sunny and warm. | pwheeler | 22/07/2020 |
from apex of minor road W, parking for several cars | Galltywenallt | 26/05/2020 |
Run: Cottington's Hill -> Caveley Hill -> Beacon Hill -> Sidown Hill -> Ladle Hill -> Watership Down. Last tump of the day. HP the trig or maybe next to fence. | maclrc | 01/03/2020 |
Parked at the end of the path which goes up the edge of a crop field then bends right. The HP trig is about 10 yards in to the crop. | clivevilla | 22/02/2020 |
Easy walk up from road and into harvested field. Then on to Ladle Hill. | Dugswell2 | 03/09/2019 |
From Cottington's Hill I followed the Wayfarer's Walk to Watership Down. The fence can be stepped over and a path leads to the trig. Walk continued to Ladle Hill. | Sprog | 20/02/2019 |
Ample road parking on lane and easy path to summit. | Ramblingpaul | 26/12/2018 |
Linear walk with cars parked at each end. Beacon Hill, Ladle Hill, Watership Down & Cottington's Hill. With Pete Doyle. | Dangerous Dave | 26/11/2018 |
Kingsclere (bus from Basingstoke) - Cottington's Hill - Watership Down - Ladle Hill - Beacon Hill - Sidown Hill - Caveley Hill - Kingsclere. | Mark Jackson | 20/10/2018 |
Six Trig tour with Minnie, very warm all day, Hackpen Hill from hilltop parking plus White Horse & a bonus crop circle, then Walbury Hill sheep pasture from parking to East then Pilot Hill, roadside parking to SE, Beacon Hill- steepest of the day, then Wabbit hunting on Watership Down, finally a wander on Greenham Common, not a listed top but found the trig. | apricorum | 24/06/2018 |
From Ladle Hill. Field empty (no crop, not re-sown). | dal | 16/03/2018 |
Ample parking on road between Ladle Hill and Watership Down. | ijpowell | 08/09/2017 |
From Ladle Hill. Standing crop in trig field, but track through wheat from RoW, for access. Whilst standing by trig, two Breitling biplanes flew directly overhead. On the day that the Battle of Britain flight was grounded, I had my own display. | ngthack | 17/08/2017 |
Climbed up from the unclassified road to the W - on our '25 Trig Points in a Day' half term challenge. | DanMaisieBex | 17/02/2017 |
From road to SW, then on to Cottington's hill alongside the gallops and then back to Ladle Hill. | PeterD | 13/11/2016 |
A 6 hill,15 km jog/walk circular in 2:50 from Old Burghclere. After investigating nearby Nuthanger as a possible new Tump with p29-p31? Steeply up rough grassland from NW. No rabbits seen??- not Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig or the mythical Rabscuttle. | Chris Pearson | 12/10/2016 |
With TJB, from road summit of B3051. Straightforward walk. Trig is in an oil seed rape field and only just visible. There is a narrow path to the trig from the field edge | trimarc2 | 08/07/2016 |
On a circular route from Beacon Hill car park down through Lloyd Webber estate from Caveley Hill then up to Watership Down a very nice walk through the estate | philhythe | 15/11/2015 |
From road summit to SW. | jimbloomer | 09/10/2015 |
An evening 'ascent' from the Cole Henley road. | DanMaisieBex | 17/09/2015 |
From SW layby. | GordonAdshead | 16/08/2015 |
Three Legged Cross to Kingsclere. | Smudge | 19/06/2015 |
Cottington's Hill, Watership Down and Ladle Hill from car park on B3051. | rhalstead | 15/03/2015 |
From west.No rabbits! | arranc | 15/03/2015 |
Highest point is the Trig 15m into arable field. Excellent view point. | RichardM | 11/01/2015 |
From pub at Ecchinswell | squeegs | 05/05/2014 |
P on road beside ROW. Upto trig then wander about ground within the 235m contour. | chrisbien | 21/04/2013 |
From road to West - fence easy to hop over by racehorse gallop | Bramley | 04/04/2013 |
Easy parking to SW. Good path. Stroll. | destaylor | 15/02/2013 |
Another "hop over a fence" to reach the trig point summit. An easy walk from the road to the west. | JohnStoneham | 22/04/2012 |
Easy walk up the path from the road to the west where there is some parking. Hop over the fence to get to the trig. One of those maybe tops where it is difficult to see that the trig is the very highest point. | simon and co | 30/01/2012 |
Walked with mum | thepounds | 19/07/2008 |
summit is arable trig or horse jump. good FP from SW | RHW | 04/10/2004 |
Wayfarer's Walk from Deane to Woodcott Down, connecting from Overton and to Whitchurch station at end | rjf35 | 15/08/2004 |
Very approximate date. With Herbert Anchovy | Richard Lawrenc | 08/08/2004 |
I used to come up here regularly when I lived in Kingsclere between 2002 and 2006. Approximate date given. | Herbert Anchovy | 01/06/2002 |
Several visits. Date approx. | Chimp | 01/06/2002 |