WARWICKSHIRE
EBRINGTON HILL 261m 14 August 2016
An inauspicious start to my quest to bag England’s historic
county tops, but I figured that I should start with my home county. Though I
have topped a lot of the counties I have never noted them systematically and so
this now represents my latest quest.
I was not particularly prepared for this. I had looked this
up on my Ipad back in a hotel in Coventry and had a vague idea that it was near
the villages of Ebrington and Ilmington. To also help the account talked about
transmitters and a trig point. Using the car sat-nav I made it to Ebrington
village but this was clearly too low so I headed for higher ground. Eventually
I saw an aerial and parked up nearby. I walked towards the mast but couldn’t
find the trig point so I figured I had picked the wrong transmitters. I saw two
more masts and so trekked along a bridleway for half an hour until I reached
them. I assumed (wrongly as it turned out) that this was the hill and that the
summit was along the bridleway. However the walk back to the car left an element
of doubt in my mind. So I then entered the lat-long coords into the car sat-nav
and discovered that my original destination had been correct. I therefore
headed back to the location and ended up as close to the summit as possible. I
couldn’t find the trig point and the actual summit was in a field of 2m high
maize but this will certainly count.
Ebrington Hill is barely in Warwickshire and is right on the
Gloucestershire border. The view across the Vale of Evesham (north-west) and
north across Warwickshire was superb.
As ascents go this barely deserves the number of words I’ve
written, but of this quest it is noteworthy. The first of many!
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