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| Name: | Detling Hill [North Downs] |
| Hill number: | 2920 |
| Height: | 202.2m / 663ft |
| County/UA: | Kent |
| Topographical area: | ES07 Leith-botley |
| SMC/RHB section: | 42: South-East England & the Isle of Wight |
| Catchment: | Medway, Catchment Boundaries |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Tump (200-299m), Clem (Ma,Hu,Tu,2,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | TQ 80347 58665 |
| Summit feature: | not recorded |
| Drop: | 164.4m |
| Col: | 37.8m TQ 9021 3786  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 178 188 (1:25k) 148 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 313 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Walk w/Devon. Parked Detling Village. Summit (overgrown with brambles, stopped at the fence corner border), Trig then to The Cock Horse Inn for lunch. | ZacField | 23/08/2024 |
| Missed the turning for the country park so pulled into the layby at the start of the public footpath to the viewpoint. Inevitably fine view and inevitably being spoilt by one thing and another. Followed the path west through the wood to pick up another ROW heading north - which was surprisingly overgrown - then fought my through the brambly jungle to the corner of the fence by some sort of bad atmosphere place with predictable barking dogs. Fought my way SE to the track. | Wycombe Wanderer | 05/07/2024 |
| Really a Marilyn bag although the pillar is a better site and viewpoint than the summit. | KevPalmer | 22/06/2024 |
| A winter ascent so less vegetation and the soil bank was easy enough to reach. I wasn't tempted to scramble up the bank though as it appears the homeowner uses it to dispose of large amounts of dog excrement. | Stickman | 13/07/2023 |
| Drove up the hill from the south, The Blackhorse Inn parking. Walked to trig point and benches. Not bad. Then went to the high point grid ref - not pleasant through trees and brambles. Soil bank near fence looks as high / higher. | Minto | 30/06/2023 |
| From Bearsted Station. Walked to viewpoint with trig and on to bench. HP is probably soil bank but looked as if it belonged to a property so I didn’t visit. However, head was above it. | peter4lc | 04/03/2023 |
| Parked in layby on Castle Hill just after the steep bit of the road and opposite a path leading up to the trig point. From the trig followed path round to the bench and wandered around in the coppice/brambles/undergrowth before an approaching rain squall and darkening skies caused a quick return to the car. On a clear day I would imagine there are fine views from the trig point. | richard69 | 05/10/2022 |
| The bench is over 100m from the grid ref so I stumbled through the undergrowth for a while to a mound at the bottom of someone's garden. Not the most satisfying ascent. | paulhilder | 20/03/2022 |
| After visiting Crowborough. Parked on the yellow road by the church in Thurnham. Up the road a little then path into the remains of the castle, followed through into country park, to trig point and Ash Tree Art then around the path to the bench. Followed North Downs way East for a short way and made a small circuit via Cobham Manor Farm. 3.6 miles easy walking. That concludes my Region 42 Marilyns. | JulieB | 14/02/2022 |
| Bearsted to Charing. Revisit on a fine (after fog lifted) sunny day. | Smudge | 16/01/2022 |
| Walked up from The Blackhorse Inn to the trig point. Pleasant stroll to the bench which is probably the natural summit. The highest point using the site grid reference is a man made soil bank on private land. You can get to it through the young trees and brambles but it is not pleasant. A newer soil bank next to a wooden fence is possibly higher and nearer. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 05/01/2022 |
| Parked by the castle pull-in. Pleasant walk to the Trig point and sculpture. Then on to the high point through new plantings which included a spattering of Blackthorn and Hawthorn with plentiful bramble up a bank to the back of a yard full of rubbish. | DC11main | 13/06/2021 |
| Parked in Detling | Stevooo | 02/04/2021 |
| Walked to trig and viewpoint. Great view and lovely morning. Went to find proper top. Through trees and up a ladder that had been left which brings you to top of a little mound at the back of an amusement business. Where the arrow on streetmap is | ketzster | 01/04/2021 |
| Snowy, chilly day, with great views to the S.With Sal up from Thurnham. Thurnham Castle worth a visit. | davechaffey | 09/02/2021 |
| From Castle Hill road. Up to trig and viewpoint first, then on to HP | PeterD | 24/10/2020 |
| Nice walk from Bearsted station, partly through a hop field. | BasherBob | 23/10/2020 |
| With Val. Parked at country park car park and walked anticlockwise on good path to visit summit and TP. Weather fine, lots of visitors. | mike.hoult | 17/09/2020 |
| Circular walk from Detling on the hottest day of the year. Took about 3.5 hours including lunch stop. Some lovely views and inclines not too challenging. | CosmicPicnic | 08/08/2020 |
| Hump bagging drive around the South East before moving North. | atreides7887 | 08/08/2020 |
| Detour from NDW. Higher ground may be in shrub but did not fancy wading through it to find out | lerritt | 11/02/2020 |
| From the Country Park car park, anticlockwise around the path through the woodland planting, to the high point and onwards to the trig. | Mariana Trench | 29/12/2019 |
| MC alone. Quick visit from access road in wet weather. | Martin66 | 11/12/2019 |
| An easy bag from the Castle Hill road, in an effort to ensure all the area 42 Marilyns are completed during my short stay in the SE. | silveracorn_alan | 26/10/2019 |
| NDW100 | keri_runs | 03/08/2019 |
| Circular walk around White Horse Wood Country Park | Arbie | 29/07/2019 |
| Stop off on Route to a day exploring around Dover. Started from the top of Castle Hill Road, Space for a couple of cars to park, circuit round the nature reserve visiting the trig first then the actual summit with bench | Jephcote83 | 15/06/2019 |
| Lunchtime trip out with family and dog. Just purchased a KCC country park permit and this was the only one we'd never been to so needed to check it out anyway. Parked in the main car park and had a wander around down at the ruined castle first. Then back up to take in the rather good view from the trig before making sure we returned via the assigned hp (which happens to be a bench). Maybe I need to try a new altimeter as it seemed to show the trig as 200m and the bench a little less. | MysteriousSue | 19/05/2019 |
| From Country Park car park, A249. Circuit to summit and onto viewpoint and trig.. | N.Morters | 25/04/2019 |
| Easter Day. From White Horse Wood Country Park carpark made clockwise circuit first to see ruins of Thurnham Castle, then across open downland for trig point and ash dieback artwork. Following public footpath to jnc with path signed to North Downs Way brings to summit. OS shows public foot path continues to near layby on dual carraigeway and there is sign too by the lay-by, but no path found. | Pete West | 21/04/2019 |
| Parked opposite pub in Detling Village and then short circular walk mostly on NDW which included the summit. Wild and windy. Day before Sevenoaks Circular. | MichaelF | 16/03/2019 |
| Walked from Detling Village eastwards, up to summit in White Horse Wood, did not take long. | Sussexman | 24/02/2019 |
| Parked in the country park car park for which there's a small charge (although not when we were there, as the machine was broken). Note that you can only access the car park from the southbound carriageway of the A249 and the exit is a bit lethal! Easy walk over the high point and on to the trig, which has great views. Glad someone here explained what the ash dieback sculptures were as there was no sign there I could see explaining this and I'd have been baffled otherwise! | wheresthepath | 19/02/2019 |
| From the pay car park round the paths to the high point then trig and viewpoint. | NormanW | 15/02/2019 |
| Walked up from Detling. Also had a look at Ash Dieback sculpture- wood used is all from ash that died. Interesting | nickywood1 | 18/11/2018 |
| Sculptures by the trig are two Ash Tree Dieback trunks with 11,000 arrow shafts stuck in them. | ngthack | 12/11/2018 |
| From limited roadside parking on Castle Hill at TQ 806582, then RoW. | Isbjorn | 08/11/2018 |
| Parked up in Detling village and followed the North Downs Way up. Cut into White Horse Wood country park and made my way to the summit. Been to the trig many times, but this is the first time i have walked to the true summit. | dave-harris | 27/10/2018 |
| Walked up from road between Detling and Thurnham to Country Park and to path jcn-summit, then to viewpoint and sculptures. | IanHHill | 28/09/2018 |
| On way home in motorhome drivin back from Spain. Quick 10 min run round the park and to top. Marilyn no. 37 | The-Z-Man | 01/09/2018 |
| From car park, on around past viewpoint. Missed out the previous day cos of long M25/M26/M20 queue. Ergo time consuming detour. | Topographer57 | 07/08/2018 |
| Parked in the main carpark walked to trig then walked to summit further with elizyanne. | GmacT | 08/07/2018 |
| Pleasant but not spectacular | elizyanne | 08/07/2018 |
| I parked in the Country Park car park and made my way to the undefined summit before looping around to the trig point with its far better vista. Now for the long drive back to South Wales. | Father Ted | 20/05/2018 |
| 10/11 In the dark from the car park at the country park. | SS | 09/02/2018 |
| From Bearsted station, to meet Biff, Rae & H at showground. Limited vis and drizzle. | Rounsfell | 20/01/2018 |
| Parked in the main carpark walked to trig with its bench and signs although no view cloudy then walked to summit further up the path and back to car | jmistry86 | 11/01/2018 |
| 4/11M from the country park quick and easy bag. | robertphillips | 05/11/2017 |
| With Jane, Simon, Ann and Gerard. Precise top rather overgrown. | Newton Maximus | 23/07/2017 |
| Nice views from the trig, but the summit is distinctly unexciting. This is a pathetically easy tick from the free parking at the end of the Castle Hill Road. Probably not worth extending the walk, with Detling being hemmed in by the A429 and the M20. Second hill of the day, in an effort to get the south eastern Marilyns bagged. | Gill | 08/07/2017 |