Add marker to map:              help
Marker Notes X

To add your own marker to the map, click on the appropriate symbol below the map, then click again at the location required on the map (using the crosshairs).

Logged-in registered users only...
When you add a marker, a pop-up box should then appear on the map - fill in the elevation (if known) and a brief description of your marker, then click [save].

To view previously saved markers which fall within the bounds of the map, click the show link (you may need to repeat this if you zoom or pan away from the current position on the map).

Loading...
Name:Ben Thrush
Hill number:12814
Height:456m / 1496ft
Parent (Ma):1662  Steele's Knowe
RHB Section:26A: Central Scotland from Dumbarton to Montrose
Donald area:Ochil Hills
County/UA:Perth and Kinross
Catchment:Forth
Class:Tump (400-499m)
(Tu,4)
Grid ref:NN 98675 05816
Summit feature:cairn
Drop:47m
Col:409m  NN987064  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 58
(1:25k) 366E 369
GPS data:show GPS entries for this hill

View on: Geograph  OS Maps  Streetmap  Magic  NLS  OTM

Full screen map - includes OS 1:25k scale mapping (Bing Maps)
Switch to OS OpenSpace view

Show/hide GPS File for mountains/markers shown

Show/hide GPX File for mountains shown

Photos
Hill summit photo
(where available)
Hill portrait photo
(where available)

Click on a photo link to view photo on the hillsummits website

To contribute a summit or portrait photo for a hill
please contact the hillsummits website

N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way.  Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land(*).
*For information about access rights in Scotland see the ScotWays website.
Please report via the contact page any logs you see below which describe or encourage acts of trespass.  Please quote the hill number and hill name.

Logged Descriptions  (logged by 78 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all)ByDate of Ascent
From the north with Bob. Winter weather on this TUMP today.Play2End13/02/2024
Last hill of the day, stayed dry until the last 15mins. With Ian.BasherBob13/02/2024
Frosty, sunny, now winddmacdo1013/01/2024
Quick up and down after work, using the windfarm track...hils01/08/2022
After Rowantree Craig on the way back down to Glen Sherup car park. Boggy and tussocky as you get to the foot of the hill. Solo.Dangerous Dave07/03/2022
Parked at the Glen Sherrup car park and biked in some way up the Glen Devon to Auchterarder track. Got a puncture instantly, even before getting on bike due to thorn cuttings in the car park. Dreich day, claggy but still an enjoyable round up to the ridge fence and back down the old road in Glen Boreland to the bike.fasgadh12/12/2021
First hill of trio for final E Ochil Marilyn. First time with only tshirt on for my uppers in a very, very long time. Fine, windless summit.iangpark16/04/2021
Circuit of Steele's Knowe and associated tops from Glen Devon.thekirkie pirate25/03/2021
Circuit from home.richtea504020/06/2020
Circuit from wind farm entrance, up Ben Thrush, return via Long Craig and Glendevon Castle.TRG31819/02/2020
Up the Greenknowe windfarm road past Turbine 18 and a short walk to the top, just as a snow shower arrived.NormanW26/01/2020
up the windfarm track.robertphillips09/12/2019
With Ben. Used windfarm road.hillsman21/04/2018
Afternoon solo walk round the wind turbines from Tormaukin via Borland Glen; good visibility, despite rain which was not forecast.barnz4817/09/2017
From Rowantree Craig. Down the ridge, then R to the windfarm road.Minto30/05/2017
Solo. From Glen Sherup carpark at NN971051. Circuit over Steele’s Knowe. Went along road from carpark, up windfarm access track and up SW slopes to reach the summit of Ben Thrush for the first top of the day. A nice well defined summit with a cairn and a good view.pwbellarby12/03/2017
Steele's Knowe trig and second OS 485m spot height (which seems lower), Rowantree Craig, Ben Thrush. A dreich day after a week of rain, so the windfarm access road was the dry option, its tediousness relieved by what may be the planet's only 19 mph speed limit sign. For the first time in a dozen years of hill walking, I fell into a cattle grid, both boots slipping on the snow covered grid at the turbine 5 turning, and my shins rattling like xylophones against the metal as I made the short and inglorious descent into the cattle grid's basin.Nick Down105/02/2017
Up the windmill track until the first windmill. Significant cairn on summit. New ASX.Play2End21/08/2016
Debs and Goska, from Glen Devon on way home from AviemoreMountain Goat23/03/2016
From Glendevon church via windfarm road north as far as the col. Soft snow on icy base, would have struggled without spikes. Back south over the summit, chilling north wind with some nasty drifts. Down the south west ridge.Topographer5714/02/2016
On the way down from Steele's Knowe using the wind farm road. Heavy fog so no views. Head for turbines 17 and 18 then an easy walk beyond 18 to the summit.Stevend102/01/2016
I used the Green Knowe wind farm access road to bag Ben Thrust, Rowantree Craig and Steele's Knowe.Dugswell222/07/2015
Continuation of walk from Rowantree Creag. Followed fence south to join track up to wind turbine on the north ridge of the hill, then ATV track steeply up to summit cairn. To descend, I descended east into Borland Glen, picking up a grassy track round the east flank of the hill. Then followed a wall round south flank of the hill, descending to a portakabin to rejoin the windfarm track down to the road.Man of Kernow118/04/2015
An excellent hill with a great view down Glen DevonLindsay M01/03/2015
Picked up on way back from Steele's Knowe. Dare I say I was itching to bag this one.mntainman10/02/2015
Parked hotel car park - notice says, private car park, walkers welcome. Took the old right of way track, wind farm road soulless. Overcast then sunny, mild, calm, good views.iangalbraith29/10/2014
Used the windfarm road - Rowantree Craig then Ben Thrush Cairn at topchrisbien20/07/2013
On way back down to Glendevon YH from Steele's Knowe.agentmancuso16/07/2004
On return from Steele's Knowe to Gelndevon.Eddie22/08/2003
Date is first visit. Notes from later...super compact summit, fine flanking glens, 2 ?quarries nr summit. Glendevon YH (Glenfoot cattery) 989046, via Borland pass summit RHW18/11/2001
Tricky29/12/2023
nicolajane20/09/2023
alanm29/08/2023
Lynnebe31/08/2022
Llondon21/03/2022
Tonester18/01/2022
Steve Q28/10/2021
tcrannoch11/09/2021
jimbloomer01/05/2021
kathyh21/02/2021
ArdrossanWintonRover20/02/2021
The Fife Flyer28/12/2020
Crumblie217/12/2020
Simon Winton09/12/2020
MKInnes29/07/2020
Robin5605/07/2020
Ben Rinnes09/12/2019
Isbjorn19/03/2019
ARM10/05/2018
Gallovidian11/02/2018