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Name: | Botley Hill |
Hill number: | 3686 |
Height: | 269.6m / 885ft |
RHB Section: | 42: South-East England & the Isle of Wight |
County/UA: | Surrey |
Catchment: | Medway, Catchment Boundaries, Thames |
Watershed: | Greater Thames Estuary |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Tump (200-299m), Clem (Ma,Hu,Tu,2,Cm) |
Grid ref: | TQ 38709 55182 |
Summit feature: | no feature: edge of water tower enclosure |
Drop: | 209m |
Col: | 61m TQ329433 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 187 (1:25k) 146 |
Observations: | summit is 950m WSW of trig point |
Survey: | Leica NA730 |
Comments: | Replaced hill 2910, see Database Notes. Location confirmed by survey with small change in GR |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 316 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Drove up to water tower and a quick hop over the fence. | Stickman | 14/03/2024 |
Walk w/Devon. Parked Titsey Place upper car park. Tatsfield, Woldingham, Botley Hill Summit, Botley Hill Trig loop. | ZacField | 01/01/2024 |
Tick! | Nicky C | 11/04/2023 |
Route as per Gerry the Ranger below. | richard69 | 05/10/2022 |
A lovely sunny Sunday afternoon. Walked up from the car park on The Ridge/Woldingham viewpoint. Saw some partridges on the summit. | sconnolly01 | 26/06/2022 |
From Woldingham Station as part of a 9 mile circular evening walk with bluebells everywhere. The summit up by the water tower isn't that impressive, but it can be part of a really lovely walk with a bit of planning. We included the North Downs way and the Vanguard Way. Visited the trig as well as the true summit. | Lazylizzie | 10/05/2022 |
Same as Gerry the Ranger below | paulhilder | 19/03/2022 |
Managed to get into the electricity compound and had a good chat about Marilyns with the chap who let me in. My gps reading took me to the back of the compound near a mast. Artificial ground by the water tower is higher. The adjacent field is just as high and more natural but walkers are not obviously welcome to enter looking at the numerous Private signs about. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 06/01/2022 |
From free parking area west of Flint House. Track through woods parallel to minor road. North up bridleway to track to mast. Over gate on right and along edge of compound to southeast corner. Close as possible to get to summit. | KeithByTheC | 11/09/2021 |
From car park at 385546, along road, then left to Vanguard way north, then right to compound. Got as close as I could to summit. | JulieB | 05/09/2021 |
Just over a mile there and back from the viewpoint CP although there’s nothing to stop you driving up to the compound. | Newton Maximus | 31/08/2021 |
From Woldingham Station, approaching summit from north. Summit apparently behind railings. Returned by taking Vanguard Way south. | peter4lc | 03/07/2021 |
SOTA | mike.hartley | 30/05/2021 |
Parked near a roundabout in a parking area. Walked along road and cut across a field to the top. Walked round the mast. Lots of tractors | ketzster | 01/04/2021 |
Snow cover today | Adrian2 | 25/01/2021 |
With Val. Parked at viewpoint car park and short walk to summit which is in the field next to the water tower enclosure. | mike.hoult | 17/09/2020 |
Drove right up to water tower (plenty of space for parking). Then hopped over gate and walked a couple of hundred metres alongside field edge and compound boundary to the highest point. Nice & easy :-) | Gerry the Ranger | 04/08/2020 |
with Fiona and Trimarc2 | r1 | 01/07/2020 |
Revisited on a Corvid 19 circular from home. | Smudge | 14/06/2020 |
33km walk around Westerham. | atreides7887 | 31/05/2020 |
One of my last English Marilyns and very unimpressive. Walked around the water tower and comms compound- land generally disturbed. Nice benchmark in Flint House at road junction. Alone. | Denise | 06/11/2019 |
A short walk from the parking area above the quarry. Another SE Marilyn ticked off! | silveracorn_alan | 26/10/2019 |
SOTA Activation | geralddavison | 04/09/2019 |
Easy detour from NDW | lerritt | 27/07/2019 |
From viewpoint car park, then up country lanes to water tower. | N.Morters | 25/04/2019 |
Walked from Woldingham to water tower, down to Oxted. Beautiful day – warm, still. M25 not too noisy. | Rounsfell | 30/03/2019 |
From the “view point” car park, up to water tower and around it then back. Pleasant enough but M25 very noisy | Jephcote83 | 16/03/2019 |
Drove right up to the metal fence around the compound to the amusement of a dog walker on a very early foggy Saturday morning. | NormanW | 16/02/2019 |
Started from about 1 km from Chalk Hill Lane after the M25 underpass. Up by the side of the quarry through the downs and emerging at Plough Lane before heading up to the top. | Browncjw | 13/01/2019 |
Foggy. Met local who says you can see London Eye from here she knew it was a county high spot so I explained about Marylin hills. She looked astonished | nickywood1 | 15/11/2018 |
Simple detour from RoW on the West side. | Isbjorn | 08/11/2018 |
A second visit 23 years after my first. This time on 3 hr circular run with L from Godstone, via Woldingham School, NDW and Oxted, in gloomy fog before the afternoon rain arrives. Such gloom would have thwarted the efforts of General Roy and his men when they were up here around 1794 measuring for The Anglo French Survey. The Greenwich Meridean cuts across tthe west of the hill. Oxted chalk quarry below receives 150 lorry visits per day and want to increase it to the objections of leafy Oxted residents. | Chris Pearson | 06/10/2018 |
Walked from Limpsfield to summit by water tower, then to Trig point and down to other side of L. with K | IanHHill | 28/09/2018 |
Parked on top and walked around water tower. | Janko | 27/08/2018 |
Merstham to Woldingham walk. | deknyff | 19/08/2018 |
Drove up to and walked around water tower 
Artificial summit is within green metal fence the would have been dangerous and unlawful to scale | Topographer57 | 06/08/2018 |
Parked at viewpoint then path/track with elizyanne | GmacT | 08/07/2018 |
Parked at viewpoint then path/track and gate climb to top. View from viewpoint is worthwhile. | SS | 10/02/2018 |
3/11M drove up to compound, over small fence into field to the hp. | robertphillips | 05/11/2017 |
Hmm. Another non-event of a Marilyn, tackled from the parking area above the quarry, the so-called Woldingham Viewpoint. Lovely view of the M25, and remarkable that the ultra posh stockbroker belt has got a massive problem with litter. The hill itself has been made particularly ugly, being adorned with a water tower and various masts, though there are nice views across the fields. Woldingham is a loathsome example of a Surrey village, unspeakably up itself. | Gill | 08/07/2017 |
From Woldingham Station via St Agatha's church, The Ridge and public bridleway to the gate at the base of the telecommunications mast and water tower. | Raymond Butler | 07/07/2017 |
On way to Gatwick. Possible to drive to gate of compound. Walked round it. | PeterD | 16/05/2017 |
On way to Punchbowl,in snow | MichaelF | 11/02/2017 |
With K. Walked up from nearby car park. Could have driven to summit. | Ashley | 02/10/2016 |
Walked from CP to gate of mast compound - at that point I reckon my head was higher than the top! | RocksRock | 27/06/2016 |
Linear walk from Woldingham to Oxted stations | Mark Jackson | 28/05/2016 |
Last English Marilyn - again. Thought I'd finished them five years ago in 2011, then this relocated one appeared... finally got round to revisiting the area. | Aye Jimmy | 13/04/2016 |
12th and final Marilyn from a two day bagging trip. I parked to the S by Flint House, but it's tarmac all the way to the top if you are so inclined. | Cas-gwent | 05/04/2016 |
Parked in layby and walked up to transmitting towers to activate hill for SOTA. Nice chat with the lady land owner feeding her horses and fair views to the City of London | M0YDH | 20/03/2016 |
The second hill of the day on the way home from Scotney Castle. Certainly wouldn't be worth a trip there otherwise as its only a ten minute walk from the car park. | Peterb | 14/02/2016 |