| Name: | John's Cross Hill |
| Hill number: | 18578 |
| Height: | 101m / 331ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2913 Crowborough |
| County/UA: | East Sussex |
| Topographical area: | ES07 Leith-botley |
| SMC/RHB section: | 42: South-East England & the Isle of Wight |
| Catchment: | Minor Rivers only (South) |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
| Grid ref: | TQ 74177 21162 |
| Summit feature: | no feature |
| Drop: | 32m |
| Col: | 69m TQ747209  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 199 (1:25k) 124 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way. Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land.
Please report via the contact page any logs you see below which describe or encourage acts of trespass. Please quote the hill number and hill name.
| Logged Descriptions (logged by 22 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Same route as DC11main. Field access point very useful, though in August ground cover of low brambles and nettles made me wish I had put on my waterproof trousers. Lovely sunny day,field had crop of unharvested cereal. | mntainman | 04/08/2024 |
| A circular walk from Robertsbridge taking in Silver Hill, Vinehall Forest and John's Cross Hill | PhilipChaston | 14/01/2024 |
| Parked to SE near roundabout, up FP, then up bank to water tower following faint track and then into fallow summit field and HP. | PeterD | 29/11/2021 |
| Parked up the lane at TQ 74283 21226, I found access to the summit field at TQ 74195 21043, then followed field boundary and tractor tracks to the top. Sweetcorn this year. | DC11main | 12/09/2021 |
| Parked in lane and followed ROW a short way before going through hedge and into summit field. | PGCE | 30/12/2020 |
| Took the fp opposite the school. No way through to summit field. Ended up ascending through brambles to concrete water tank and then into fallow muddy field. | Campbell Singer | 14/10/2020 |
| 40-mile, 12-tump bike ride in the High Weald: Wadhurst station - Best Beech Hill - Dewhurst Down - Frant Hill - Saxonbury Hill - Cottage Hill - North Down - Hooksdown - Brightling Obelisk - Darwell Hill - Vinehall Forest - John's Cross Hill - Silver Hill - Robertsbridge station. | Mark Jackson | 03/10/2020 |
| Parked just off the main rd (TQ 7431 2127). Short walk along RoW then diverted right upscrubby bank and into an arable field with a young cereal crop planted. Followed tractor lines to top. | jonglew | 20/04/2018 |
| Parked in pub car park. Road is very busy. HP in arable field a few yards from the edge. | clivevilla | 17/04/2018 |
| Robertsbridge circular. | Smudge | 12/12/2015 |
| Arable field near NE corner and close to tramlines. Someone else summitted very recently! | RHW | 27/06/2015 |
| From pub car park. Took longer to cross the road than 'climb' the hill. Track - gap in hedge -easy low fence -muddy field to crest and back -moonlit - picking off a string of tops alongside the A21 | Chris Pearson | 05/02/2015 |
| recently grassed field. | Adrian | 06/04/2014 |
| Easy parking. Arable field currently not ploughed. | destaylor | 20/03/2014 |
| Did as a drive by returning from Bodouin castle. | steverd | 05/10/2013 |
| daveyf2001 | 26/11/2022 | |
| Martin R | 18/11/2022 | |
| Matt | 30/05/2021 | |
| Adrian2 | 03/04/2021 | |
| andrew brown | 19/05/2020 | |
| stevent0809 | 25/10/2014 | |
| GordonAdshead | 28/06/2014 | |
| scottfitzgerald | blank |