England

Bald Hill

One classification here — HuMP — belongs to a list OpenFell holds only part of, so it has no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

Height
257.2 m · 844 ft
Grid reference
SU 72840 95797
Coordinates
51.65620, -0.94843
County / area
Oxfordshire
OS Landranger
165
OS Explorer
171
Summit feature
in woods 7m SW of track
Key col
SP805005 (132 m)

Access rights here

Conditional Right to roam: Right to roam only on mapped CRoW open access land.

Permission needed Wild camping: Needs the landowner's permission — the Dartmoor commons are the only exception in England.

General position for England — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in England · check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 51.656, -0.948. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

ground on path 45m ESE at SU 72876 95771 is 0.5m lower.

The recorded summit point is in woods 7m SW of track. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Record revised
14-Jun-20
Drop measured from
SP805005 · 132 m

Classification history: 1.5m higher than 17280 Beacon Hill and 2m higher than Shirburn Hill SU723952.

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Long-distance paths past this hill

3 waymarked long-distance routes run within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.

RouteTotal lengthFrom summit
The Ridgeway 139 km 1.3 km
The Chiltern Way 367 km 2.4 km
Oxfordshire Way 109 km 2.5 km

Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

Which hill this one belongs to

Bald Hill is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Wendover Woods (268 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 132 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks

PeakHeightDistance
Wendover Woods 267.5 m 20.8 km
Pavis Wood 244 m 22.8 km