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County Tops - Number 6 Milk Hill, Wiltshire.

County Top No 6: Milk Hill, plus Tan Hill White Horse, Wiltshire. 21-07-2024 295m. Walk technicality ** View ***** Company n/a. Overall 10/10 After a fun weekenmd of wargames and crashing at Nigel's, I came 6th out of 16, and was rather pleased with my results, I decided to take a slight detour on the way home and pick off the highest point in Wiltshire, Milk Hill , plus a bit of Tan Hill and it's rather magnificent White Horse. The approach is via a long. mostly unpaved, track, which has it's own paypal QR code. It's a good mile or so along this track, shared only by horse riders when I went up, which takes you to a carpark nearly at the summit, with Wans Dyke on one side, stretching off. Milk Hill rests behind these two, on the right. Like a nice, lurking hill. These hills are old. It's on the chalk, chalk has bones in it... Parking the car up, the landscape was ancient, with trackways and ditches crisscrossing the area. Looking North West over the hills, all t