Wendover Woods · Haddington Hill

About Wendover Woods

Haddington Hill, the high point of the Chiltern Hills, lies inside Wendover Woods on the northern edge of the range, and a stone monument on the hill marks the distinction. The summit is unremarkable underfoot; the woodland around it is the reason most people come.

The woods cover 325 hectares of mixed conifer and broad-leaved trees, part of the Public Forest Estate and run by Forestry England. Signed walking routes, bridleways, picnic and barbecue areas and a children's playground share the site, along with a Go Ape treetop course that opened in 2008 and the Aston Hill Mountain Bike Area on the fringe. Ground to the north falls away towards the Aylesbury Vale, which supplies the open view.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Wendover Woods (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

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 51.772, -0.711. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is foot of tree just N of road. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Record revised

06-Feb-21

Drop measured from

SP690240 · 87 m

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.

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

The Wendover Woods group

8 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Wendover Woods as the independent hill at its head.

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