At , Wheatham Hill is one of the highest hills in the county of Hampshire, England. It is part of the North Hampshire Downs.
Much of the hill is covered in mixed forest and there is a trig point at 244 metres, which is also the site of Cobbett's View. According to a nearby information panel:
Until 2010, this viewpoint had been lost for many years under tree growth. Yet an old trig point (triangulation station) remained to indicate that the view had once been visible for OS maps to be surveyed. Countryside Rangers later felled these trees to reveal the views that Cobbett so much admired.
There is a minor track over the summit.Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger series 186. It is located in a Special Area of Conservation known as the East Hampshire Hangers. East Hampshire Hangers at jncc.defra.gov.uk. Accessed on 2 Apr 2013.
On the southeastern spur of the hill in the woods is a tumulus, evidence of prehistoric settlement in the area.
Stoner Hill () is a subsidiary summit of Wheatham Hill ().Varley, Telford (1922). Hampshire, Cambridge County Geographies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013 paperback edition, p. 17. . Varley's use of the term "North Downs" is taken to mean the main "Hampshire Downs", not the "North Downs" of Surrey and Kent.
|
|