Today, I found an illicit (therefore guerrilla) route up the very Private and completely woodland-encircled, Berrow Hill - the 15,387th highest peak in the British Isles.
It is on a remarkable ridge of delightful hills that extend N from the Malvern Hills, above the beautiful Teme Valley.
Berrow Hill is 183 m and has no cairn or anything to celebrate the summit except a very obvious grassy mound for the high point. To reach it, I was helped by a very robust, fancy-looking, luxury, crossover 6 steps ladder like the somewhat inferior ones found in the Eryri National Park. I was hindered by a low fence, topped with barbed wire that had to be gingerly stepped over to avoid a sensitive body part!
Its category is Hump and Tump but is NOT a Marilyn as I first thought until Wikipedia put me right, just now.
The hill was officially opened to Berrow Green villagers to mark the Millennium and the King's Coronation - and to me, today, unbeknown to anyone else! I am now a Hump and Tump trespasser, along with a Munroist and Corbetteer but failed/uncompleted Graham and Donald summiteer!
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