Peat Hill

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Name:	Peat Hill
Hill number:	8357
Height:	481m / 1578ft
Parent (Ma):	491 Ben Tirran
RHB Section:	07B: Braemar to Montrose
County/UA:	Angus
Catchment:	North Esk
Class:	Tump (400-499m) (Tu,4)
Grid ref:	NO 50123 67274
Summit feature:	ground on track near trig point
Drop:	32m
Col:	449m NO494675
OS map sheet(s):	(1:50k) 44 (1:25k) 389
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 17 users)	By	Date of Ascent
Parked at a suitable space just beyond Leightnie, walked back along the road and took the track that goes uphill from blairno. followed this over berry cairn, then on to Peat Hill. returned to the col and cut downhill back to road and short walk back to car. Nice walk. Good view of hill of wirren and over to montrose basin, new tree planting on lower fields, still just saplings	hils	29/03/2024
Round of Peat Hill and Berry Cairn from safe parking at 512667 to which there appears to be no apparent objection, Vegetation mostly short.	Topographer57	18/02/2024
	Simon Winton	10/05/2023
	Gonk	12/01/2023
With Jay	Larry Groo	03/11/2022
Parked alongside bins at end of public road (NO 5200 6736) with grovelling/apologetic note on dashboard. Room for cars to pass but not say, a combine harvester. No one in to ask permission at house opposite.	carole engel	12/10/2022
	thelonious	19/03/2022
	govanah	05/01/2022
Trig bagging Good tracks Lots of boundary markers all show D other side had various letters B & C Three sided one on Putney Maol had D F &possibly B	LizzieG	09/05/2021
Weather fair.	MountainMac	17/04/2021
From Nathro Hill, early sun now vanishing to give me a misty ascent. On along track to Berry Cairn	Colin Crawford	03/02/2021
A good 7 top round from 518 700 mostly on good tracks, craig duchrey, tamhilt, hill of mondurran, hill of garbet, peat hill, berry cairn, nathro hill.	robertphillips	17/03/2020
	hill walker	24/03/2019
Parked by green shack between Leightnie and Tillyarblet. Up via Berry Cairn col on tracks and snow.	Lindsay M	13/03/2018
Track over the top	alda	03/12/2017
	RHW	25/05/2009
	Tony S	15/10/1988