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Name:King's Seat
Hill number:14117
Height:295m / 968ft
Section:28A: Firth of Forth to the River Tweed
Classification:Tu,2
Drop:39m
Col:256m  NT265579  
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Entry no.Date recordedGrid Ref.Feature / Observations / SurveyRecorded byStatusSubpointLatest review
-2499605/01/2015NT 26742 58569  F: trig point
O: ground a few metres S may be as high
chrisbien
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597205/01/2015NT 26742 58569  F: GR at trig but a bump a little S might be slightly higher.
O: At this and the next two hills (all trigs) the GPS read 6 - 8m low!
chrisbien
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SE



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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 31 users)ByDate of Ascent
Good roadside parking just S of due E (NT 2716 5845). Field gate 70m S along road, then good pasture to trig pillar at top.jonglew29/01/2024
From the passing place and up the edge of the field with sheepcurlebd01/05/2023
parked to east then easy up pasture, no livestock, to Triggrumpy23/02/2023
From the east, very convenient parking spot almost due east of the trig, then a short hop over a mivestock field (empty) nice views to the pentlands and edinburgh.hils06/02/2023
From road to ESE, up edge of pasture and to trig.PeterD15/05/2022
Got there at about ten to six so climbed in almost darkness. Parked in what is probably a passing place on the road to the east. Walked to the south end of the young forest and jumped a fence into the field. Easy walk up to the trig with some remnants of snow. Back down the same way.JAdair9710/02/2022
Bogbashed up through new plantation to trig point/tump and then looped back through the field and some of the moor on the other side of the roadPaul Digard06/02/2022
Bagged when collecting TrigsAndrew Simmons23/03/2021
Through fields and along ridge line from Kingside edge. Not too bad. Then back via lanes, mainly with pavements to Penicuik and bus back to EdinburghThearlaichdubh09/12/2018
From the minor road to the east. To the trig via the cut forest and back via the pasture. Don't ask why?Play2End05/02/2017
from layby to the east along side of fence/wood to the top, also went to bump a bit further south hp.robertphillips29/01/2017
Bagging the trig.BigJ11/11/2015
I walked up from Penicuik and through the gate at Upper Firth, NT264588. From the summit, down to the ESE. No barbed wire, no farmer, no forest. I'm not sure that RHW has the right hill...Pete R13/05/2015
Lorry in Minto's parking however there was enough verge to park by gate to field (central). Nice field (very dry given the weather. Top might be bump a little S of trig.chrisbien05/01/2015
Parking at 'layby' on minor road to E, 50 N of S edge of 'forest'. The forest shown on map looks as though it was felled years ago.Minto04/12/2014
I'd forgotten the forest was gone, so ended up coming at it diagonally from ENE, which was a pretty useless way of going about it, except as a reminder that 'clearfell' is self-contradictory term. Much easier just heading along the field edge to the road.agentmancuso19/11/2011
pleasant easy hill, fine view. quarry layby/stile 223317, direct via Black Hill crags gap RHW26/12/2004
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