| Name: | Whitwell Hill |
| Hill number: | 18486 |
| Height: | 158m / 518ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2914 St Boniface Down |
| County/UA: | Isle of Wight |
| Topographical area: | IE01 Wight-looe |
| SMC/RHB section: | 42: South-East England & the Isle of Wight |
| Island: | Isle of Wight |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
| Grid ref: | SZ520766 (est) |
| Drop: | 45m |
| Col: | 113m SZ535770  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 196 (1:25k) OL29E |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 22 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From Whitwell church after a bus ride from Newport. The dog walkers' path was very helpful and continues more vaguely along the field edges. There's then a vague vehicle track up to the reservoir. I was spooked a little when a couple of vehicles drove up ahead of me but they were workers, unconcerned by my presence. Returning to Whitwell, I made the error of taking a bus down to Ventnor, hoping to continue to Ryde. Alas, landslips in the spring have destroyed several roads in this area and Ventnor has become a bit of a trap. I was compelled to linger for an hour or more then return to Newport for a Ryde connection | Colin Crawford | 25/06/2024 |
| Delighted to find a good 'dog walkers' path leading up left through the woods to field margins after despairing at the sight of the overgrown mapped track branching off the row. Met a dog walker using this path on my return. Had a look around the cemetery at row top with its Commonwealth War Graves -this being the 80th anniversary week of D Day. The coastal A road below the summit (Undercliff Drive ) has been closed for 10 years . due to repeated landslips, The main road east of Vetnor has been closed since Dec due to a landslip and now another road (Graben) is about to be closed to prevent a sinkhole opening up and damaging a sewer- leaving Whitwell to be the temporarily the only way out of Vetnor with a one way system to be imposed. A very mobile coast line -good for fossil hunters, but not for motorists. | Chris Pearson | 09/06/2024 |
| As Minto, from Whitwell, but there was no problem with crops as there was a good field margin which wasn't overgrown. Nice viewpoint, better than expected. Fine weather, no sea mist coming on land, which had been a problem yesterday. With Pete | pwheeler | 13/06/2023 |
| From the church in Whitwell. Where the mapped overgrown track branches left off the bridleway, there's now a path even more left, which goes up through the open woods. Might be difficult to access with a crop in the summit field. | Minto | 14/01/2023 |
| Train, catamaran and bus to Bonchurch and then ascended the steep path to St Boniface down then using the coastal path (and a few diversions) in muddy terrain the Whitwell hill and St Catherine's hill for a lovely day in the cold wind. | Buck | 13/01/2023 |
| After Chillerton 3, bus to Blackgang Chine. Walked to Godshill via St Catherine's Hill, Whitwell Hill and Appuldurcombe Down. | PGCE | 02/12/2021 |
| From Whitwell church, initially along BW. Track is now overgrown but a route through the woods leads to field and tractor tracks followed across it. Then up to reservoir at top. | PeterD | 07/07/2020 |
| First diversion from the coastal path today on day two. | Dugswell2 | 09/09/2019 |
| Niton to Godshill. Via field edges from SW then descent following line of partly overgrown track NNW. | Smudge | 09/02/2018 |
| TD,C & H | This Dog | 25/08/2017 |
| Part of a circular walk from Shanklin via Niton. 17 miles. Fabulous views. | Graeme | 12/03/2017 |
| From NE. Track is just a footpath, well used. Low-fenced covered reservoir over natural HP | RHW | 28/02/2016 |
| Summit topped by covered reservoir, fine views. | RichardM | 14/02/2016 |
| Parked next to the church then along the lanes to the field access. | Play2End | 09/06/2015 |
| From the church in Whitwell, initially on RoW then farm track to reservoir at summit. Tractor/farmer sowing around summit area, but managed to avoid him. | jonglew | 12/04/2015 |
| Via bridleway from Whitwell church. | jimbloomer | 07/03/2014 |
| nice views | Adrian | 08/05/2011 |
| Martin R | 12/10/2023 | |
| Ben Rinnes | 08/12/2021 | |
| ngthack | 12/09/2018 | |
| andrew brown | 13/11/2017 | |
| Denise | 14/02/2016 |