Great Wood
One classification here — Current County/UA Top — belongs to a list OpenFell holds only part of, so it has no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 129.4 m · 425 ft
- Prominence
- 38 m
- Grid reference
- TL 78870 55807
- Coordinates
- 52.17149, 0.61429
- County / area
- Suffolk
- County top
- Highest point of Suffolk
- OS Landranger
- 155
- OS Explorer
- 210
- Summit feature
- no feature: ground by path 15m NE of telegraph pole
- Key col
- TL535263 (91 m)
About Great Wood
Great Wood Hill at Depden is the highest ground in Suffolk, and the highest part of the Newmarket Ridge. Nothing to the east of the River Cam rises above it across a wide swathe of country, which gives the hill its significance rather than any great elevation — the summit is under 130 m.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Great Wood Hill (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.
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 52.171, 0.614. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (129 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Get food nearby
3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).
| Place | Type | Rating | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Queens Head | Pub/bar/nightclub | 4 out of 5 | 2.9 km · S |
| The Greyhound | Pub/bar/nightclub | 5 out of 5 | 3.3 km · N |
| The Greyhound | Pub/bar/nightclub | 5 out of 5 | 4.3 km · W |
Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.
Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.
Which hill this one belongs to
Great Wood 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, 91 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Castle Camps airfield | 128 m | 20.9 km |