| Name: | Milk Hill |
| Hill number: | 2872 |
| Height: | 294.3m / 966ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2906 Walbury Hill |
| County/UA: | Wiltshire |
| Topographical area: | ES06 Walbury-butser |
| SMC/RHB section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
| Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Avon (Bristol), Thames |
| Watershed: | Land's End to Dover, Dover to Cape Wrath, Greater Thames Estuary |
| Historic County: | Wiltshire |
| Administrative County: | Wiltshire (1974-1996), Wiltshire (1889-1974) |
| Class: | Hump, Tump (200-299m), Historic County Top, Administrative County Top, Current County/UA Top, Submarilyn, Clem (Hu,Tu,2,CoH,CoA,CoU,sMa,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | SU 10427 64315 |
| Summit feature: | no feature |
| Drop: | 147m |
| Col: | 147m SU235632  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 173 (1:25k) 157 |
| Survey: | Leica NA730/Leica 530 Surveys of Milk Hill and Tan Hill (Final).doc |
| Comments: | See Database Notes. Tiny cairn in middle of field may be inaccessible if crops present. 5612 Tan Hill is 0.25m lower. |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 297 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From Parking area following a clockwise loop of the hill. Surprisingly there are several gates into the summit field. South Gate (SU1043563889), North East Gate (SU1069264560), North West Fence (SU1017964490), North Gate (SU1025564641). No Crops so easy wander straight to summit area. | Jephcote83 | 07/09/2024 |
| From Parking area following a clockwise loop of the hill. No Crops so easy wander straight to summit area. | Jephcote20 | 07/09/2024 |
| From Parking area following a clockwise loop of the hill. No Crops so easy wander straight to summit area. | Jephcote22 | 07/09/2024 |
| Hopped over the BWF from the RoW to the West. | summitter | 01/07/2024 |
| Good circular route clockwise from the car park via Adams Grave and Tan Hill Way. Top is supposedly in the stone field area but I felt it was higher amongst the treeline to the east. Great views over the Vale Of Pewsey, could even hear Army guns firing on Salisbury Plain. | Nick | 11/05/2024 |
| Quick up and back from the Walkers Hill car park. | PGT1975 | 16/01/2024 |
| From Pewsey Station via Huish, up Golden Ball and along the ridge. Lovely scenery on a clear day. Managed to make the train back. | hillbagger91 | 25/05/2023 |
| Fantastic views , highly recommend with variety of paths. took awhile to find the trig as been relocated. Tracked back and found within corner of field across from the chalk circle in the opposite hill. | Climber2412 | 23/04/2023 |
| Circular hike from Tan Hill Way - Tan Hill (trig point moved to another field) - Milk Hill - White Horse Trail - Walkers Hill - Adam's Grave (long barrow). Parking: parking close to Knap Hill | manilena | 22/03/2023 |
| From P to ESE. | sclater | 20/01/2023 |
| On a short circular walk with Lyn. Yet another stunningly uninteresting top to walk around. | Sixtyplus | 09/12/2022 |
| After Tan Hill, an easy diversion from the ROW. Top currently a stubble field. No evidence of cairn but the field is more stones than soil and it's probably been ploughed anyway. | milimana | 16/11/2022 |
| https://cjwilliams1975.wixsite.com/website/post/milk-hill Cycled from Pewsey. Left bike in car park. Walked round the hill - amazing views - got onto the top by the rusty reservoir thing. Back to car, 4.6km. Busy on a Bank Holiday! | cjwilliams | 03/01/2022 |
| Milk Hill from GR: SU 11575 63821 | ronaldo333 | 28/10/2021 |
| Milk Hill from GR: SU 11575 63821 | Hippster | 28/10/2021 |
| Did Milk Hill with my cousin, an easy hill to do. | DavidHiner | 08/07/2021 |
| Lovely circuit from East Kennett in sweltering heat. Surprising amount of bird life. Fantastic views southwards. | jkl | 01/06/2021 |
| Showers, hail, intermittent stunning views when the sun came out | Mickeyfinn | 24/05/2021 |
| Wonderful sunny April day | roope | 23/04/2021 |
| On walk back from Tan Hill, great winters evening | cjo | 31/12/2020 |
| Bright and clear this morning, but really had a very chill wind blowing for this time of the year. | Alex C | 25/09/2020 |
| TD & C | This Dog | 24/09/2020 |
| Cycled out from Devizes to All Cannings. Over the canal and field to Allington then up the track to the ridge, up to Tan Hill and then along to my 5th County Top at Milk Hill. Return via Rybury and Clifford’s Hill. | pclyndes | 07/09/2020 |
| En-route from Dorset to home | ParkerP1960 | 29/08/2020 |
| Circular from East Kennet with Liz. | jimbloomer2 | 26/07/2020 |
| Unable to find trig point or summit, due to overgrown field, no visible paths from any aspect, and only wearing shorts, so unable to try due to thistles | diyceejay | 12/07/2020 |
| Done from the car park near Walkers Hill on a 10km round trip with Tan Hill. Gloriously sunny Whitsun bank holiday | Rockdoctor | 25/05/2020 |
| Solo. On run. | Fidget | 20/03/2020 |
| Martinsell, Golden Ball, Milk and Tan Hill from Pewsey Station - back to train over Milk Hill, Drove Road and Canal tow path | trimarc2 | 30/09/2019 |
| Walk from carpark to pick up Milk Hill, Tan Hill and Golden Ball Hill. Great views | Ramblingpaul | 13/09/2019 |
| Good walk from nearby car park on road to Alton Barnes. No trig point so no real fixed point to aim for (with no GPS). Good to get third of the day. | acolling | 12/08/2019 |
| Anri clockwise round from the car park. Square of fallow ground one side of both the current and the 294m summit to SW. New agers in car park no problem while I wild-camped on the hills. | Eddie | 12/07/2019 |
| Walk on way back from visit in Oxford, parked on roadside in nearby farmland after poor SatNav directions | penbet | 22/04/2019 |
| Car broken into so beware. | softsquare | 05/04/2019 |
| On own. Parked in Pewsey Downs car park, mega potholes! NW along bridleway 'Tan Hill Way', then S along White Horse Trail until directly W of cultivated field to take shortest route to summit, tricky barbed wire topped fence. Able to keep in tractor wheel gaps to avoid walking on young crops growing there. No evidence of small cairn, assume ploughed over. GPS used to find true summit of fairly flat field. Hang gliders watched from Milk Hill. Return paths across rolling grassy chalk downs above White Horse Hill figure. Very pleasant walk with good views. | Beeliner | 21/03/2019 |
| Oare - Martinsell Hill - Golden Ball Hill - Milk Hill - Tan Hill - Woodborough Hill - Pewsey. Lovely hills but very windy. | Mark Jackson | 16/03/2019 |
| Started from the car park. Up via the Wansdyke and back via the tumuli above the white horse. Copious mince pies and gingerbread kept our 5yr old going | ekm | 01/01/2019 |
| Circular walk from Bridleway start at 156 spot height on rd. Then to Tan Hill and Ciffords Hill. With B and R. | jenx | 10/12/2018 |
| With Darren | kingabunyip | 10/11/2018 |
| With Jenx and Bryher, no Cairn! Plus Tan Hill without its trig now. Walked up from the South on good tracks, made a circuit of it from the B road at Cannings Cross | nordicstar | 12/10/2018 |
| Parked in the nearby car park. Visited Adam's Grave, and walkers hill before heading to tan hill and back to the car park. | Buck | 21/06/2018 |
| On my way home from a cycling holiday in Wales. Left my bike on road at SU 0955 6265 and walked up footbath, wouldn't recommend this route as it was overgrown and then the cows in the field were a bit too friendly. Summit field had crops in it so no way to visit the summit without severely damaging them. Walked round field perimeter and also visited spot height at 294m (which I know is not the top). | tsharp | 18/06/2018 |
| Ploughed field on summit | Ben Tindal | 09/04/2018 |
| Walked around nondescript summit field which was mostly surrounded by barbed wire. Tractor tracks did not quite lead to summit (probably around 2m under), but no qualms about counting this one. | rlee5040 | 17/03/2018 |
| Up via Walkers Hill (262m). Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 18/02/2018 |
| Circular walk from car park on drove track. Indistinct top in enclosed field. Cold late winter conditions with lots of mud. | Argentum66 | 12/02/2018 |
| Parked in car park walked around the hill past the white horse then up onto the summit which really doesn't have any summit markings so used GPS | jmistry86 | 19/01/2018 |
| Great views from S | twg27 | 17/11/2017 |
| With K. Quite a tour round this palimpsest of archaeological features. Saw deer near summit, which had been ploughed a year or two ago but is now fallow. Quite a mess. | Ashley | 13/11/2017 |
| Parked in the nearby car park. Visited Adam's Grave, before following the Mid Wilts Way. A gate gave access to the summit field, which was partly fallow and partly recently ploughed. Descended back to the car on the Tan Hill Way. | Sprog | 01/11/2017 |