Milk Hill
2 classifications here — Current County/UA Top and HuMP — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 294.3 m · 966 ft
- Prominence
- 147 m
- Grid reference
- SU 10427 64315
- Coordinates
- 51.37774, -1.85159
- County / area
- Wiltshire
- OS Landranger
- 173
- OS Explorer
- 157
- Summit feature
- no feature
- Key col
- SU235632 (147 m)
About Milk Hill
Milk Hill, near Alton Priors and east of Devizes, is the highest point in Wiltshire at roughly 295 m, with neighbouring Tan Hill barely a metre lower. Cut into its slope is the Alton Barnes White Horse, a hill figure dating from 1812.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Milk 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 51.378, -1.852. 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
The recorded summit point is no feature. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- Leica NA730/Leica 530
- Record revised
- 12-May-25
- Drop measured from
- SU235632 · 147 m
Classification history: See Database Notes. 5612 Tan Hill is 0.25m lower. Submarilyn status removed in May 2025 following redefinition by list author.
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
4 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.
| Route | Total length | From summit |
|---|---|---|
| White Horse Trail | 161 km | over the top |
| Pewsey Vale Circular Walk | 132 km | over the top |
| Mid Wilts Way | 67 km | over the top |
| Sarsen Way | 81 km | 1.1 km |
Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.
Which hill this one belongs to
Milk Hill is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Walbury Hill (297 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 147 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Walbury Hill | 296.8 m | 27 km |
| Walbury Hill (boundary) | 293 m | 27.1 km |