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Name: | Great Chishill |
Hill number: | 5456 |
Height: | 146m / 479ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2874 Wendover Woods [Haddington Hill] |
RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
County/UA: | Cambridgeshire |
County (CoH): | Cambridgeshire (CoH) |
County (CoA): | Cambridgeshire (CoA) |
Catchment: | Wash |
Class: | Historic County Top, Current County/UA Top, Administrative County Top (CoH,CoU,CoA) |
Grid ref: | TL 42728 38626 |
Summit feature: | no feature: ground by reservoir gate |
Drop: | 8m |
Col: | 138m TL430363 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 154 (1:25k) 194 |
Observations: | 1:50k map has 146m spot height on road at TL 42890 38450 but this is not within 145m contour on 1:25k map |
Comments: | Great Chishill was in Essex prior to 1895 boundary changes. Hill 18929 would have been the Cambridgeshire county top before 1895. |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 227 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
DDFR. | Donpeblo | 12/02/2024 |
Rising ground at field margin near the track to the reservoir seemed highest. Reading of 148.7m taken from adjacent road summit | Vulcan | 20/08/2023 |
A sad CoHP. But then Cambridgeshire is known for being flat. Parked end of track. Road / hedge / field margin all look as high. | Minto | 29/06/2023 |
Walked from bus stop at Barley. Narrow country lanes and a few lorries to watch out for. The summit is really nothing to see but there are some pleasant views of the surrounding farmland on the way there. | hillbagger91 | 06/06/2023 |
Parked at village hall. Tree damaged fence allowed access onto drive by reservoir for a brief visit. We didn't realise initially that the drive is possibly private until we saw the closed electric access gate near the road and left. | richard69 | 16/01/2023 |
Great Chishill from GR: TL 42704 38572 | ronaldo333 | 04/05/2022 |
is a village hall | AlanAdeptly | 06/04/2022 |
Along road from village and up short track to edge of compound containing a covered reservoir. | KeithByTheC | 24/02/2022 |
Did Cambridgeshire and Essex in the same walk after a very early morning doing Suffolk's County Top. Very easy to get to being pretty much by the village of Great Chishill. Didn't bother going to the artifical ground on the summit as for us, it didn't count by the rule book that we stayed consistant at. Walked on the edge of an open field which was definately on the 1m rule for the Summit at 145+m, probably 146m as the OS doesn't seem to recognise the artifical ground either. Anyway, a very flat county top, but some good local views. | DavidHiner | 01/02/2022 |
Traditional Cambridgeshire compleat. | Bag For Life | 19/12/2021 |
Walked to Reservoir gate before driving back home to Manchester | GordonAdshead | 07/11/2021 |
On a trail run from Great Chishill. | Wheelsy | 01/08/2021 |
Parked at village hall and walked | kjg106 | 26/07/2021 |
Parked in the village. The hump in Hall Road seems to be the County Top. Walked on to Essex. | cjwilliams | 24/07/2021 |
Day three of my latest trip. Such a change in the landscape. As soon as I cycled over the A1 the change to smoother topography was noticeable and also wider fields with less hedges. | pclyndes | 12/06/2021 |
Circular walk to take in Cambs & Essex high points | jedthehumanoid | 26/09/2020 |
SOLO. Overnighted in Sheringham and set off on a quest to bag some of the hills in Jonny Muir's book. This was number 3. Parked by the village hall and recreation field which was setting up for a game of cricket. Followed to route in Jonny Muir's book to the covered reservoir - next stop Essex. | Buck | 08/08/2020 |
Circular loop from Chrishall to the two county tops and Langley. | welshyboyo | 28/06/2020 |
Small car park opposite track to reservoir. | PGCE | 06/05/2020 |
Finished work in Royston, quick bagging of two county tops: first Great Chishill then Chrishall Common. | peter_tun | 27/04/2020 |
Long walk with Suzanne | dc96 | 28/12/2019 |
With E. Dry and sunny. Parked in Great Chishill village hall and playing fields car park off Hall Lane. Explored Drive other side of wooden fence (after found it was private - sorry!) then a short walk along track to gates of water board compound. Also walked along edge of hedgerow between compound and ripening field of wheat which GPS indicated took me within 3 metres of summit behind hedgerow/fence but no discernible height difference. | Beeliner | 26/07/2019 |
8 mile loop to pick up County Tops of Cambs and Essex | D SID | 26/07/2019 |
4/5 Parked up on nearby street, reservoir clearly highest point but inaccessible. | penbet | 24/05/2019 |
With K,J and M. Date approx. | The Captain | 13/03/2019 |
Revisit for photos first bagged in 1988 while working in Bishop's Stortford. | Dugswell2 | 25/02/2019 |
Field edge by road seemed higher than the reservoir perimeter. Solo. I love the telephone box conversion to a book exchange library! | Dangerous Dave | 13/10/2018 |
Was looking for the top of Essex went to highest point by use of OS map contours, accidentally topped cambs | Mattbrolly | 25/04/2018 |
on my way south with work | jmistry86 | 28/01/2018 |
Parked in village hall car park to at least be out of the car for 5 mins. | KC | 15/10/2017 |
With Chris and Becca | Kate_and_Euan | 12/08/2017 |
TD, C & H | This Dog | 07/08/2017 |
Parked by drive other side of fence from village Hall, then walked up to gates of reservoir. | alwaysinshorts | 29/06/2017 |
Part of bike ride | garth87 | 11/06/2017 |
Parked at village hall and walked round to field entrance and the few yards to the reservoir gate..obviously locked. | keithelliott | 22/04/2017 |
From village hall | Bramley | 01/12/2016 |
Explored drive other side of fence from village Hall, then walked up to gates of reservoir. | PeterD | 16/11/2016 |
5.3 mile (with Essex)with Katy .. Long Top Bagging Day | George Thompson | 01/11/2016 |
Wow Fergalh, that's an eclectic bunch of hills. | ngthack | 03/08/2016 |
Parked over the road | squeegs | 26/06/2016 |
WHO KNEW Cambridgeshire had such a climb! Cycled from Cambridge (via Rowley's Hill) - 50km round trip - hill up to Great Chishill hurt but was fun whizzing back down. Spotted a red kite from top by Sports Ground. With GFE. | Fionalevey | 19/06/2016 |
petey | 17/05/2016 | |
5/6 Fifth climb of last day of 3 day climbing weekend (Pule Hill/Rombalds Moor/Stock Hill/Bishop Wilton Wold/Great Chishell/Chishell Common) | Fergalh | 02/05/2016 |
Parked at playing fields and walked to reservoir. | mart0797 | 24/02/2016 |
A reservoir wall | nickywood1 | 11/12/2015 |
Cold and sunny - not the most challenging of visits but nice photos of mackerel skies | M3WDD | 22/11/2015 |
Cycled from Bishops Stortford 34 miles round trip. | CXB | 16/08/2015 |
County top walk, parked on a piece of tarmac on the other side of the track leading up to the underground reservoir.literally walk up to the gate job done finished with a 5 mile round walk to bag the Essex top using jonny muir's book The UK's county tops | WAYNE ROWLETT | 19/07/2015 |
Parked by the church and walked along the road to the high point. | Dragonhert | 27/06/2015 |
an odd spot | maltose | 23/06/2015 |