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Name: | Bennan |
Hill number: | 1788 |
Height: | 398m / 1306ft |
RHB Section: | 27C: The Glenkens to Annandale |
County/UA: | Dumfries and Galloway |
Catchment: | Nith |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Tump (300-399m), Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,3,Y) |
Grid ref: | NX 82186 76963 |
Summit feature: | Turner's Monument |
Drop: | 186m |
Col: | 212m NX784828 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 84 (1:25k) 313 321 |
Survey: | obvious summit |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 211 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Parked at roadside on one of numerous adjacent spots at NX829763 where a core path sign to John Turner Monument points through a gate and up a track, leading to a gate in the fence near the shooting butts. Easy grassy slopes to the summit monument. | ColinW | 22/03/2024 |
MKInnes | 03/03/2024 | |
kiltedbiggles | 03/03/2024 | |
From 213 point on road to S. Clag from about 310m up but not raining or windy. Stalked by local grouse-botherer in Hilux - every time I looked round on ascent he had moved vehicle to another spot from which he could still see me. Probably thought I was going to smash his mustelid traps. Should have mooned him. Inspected the fibreglass Henry Moore after. En route Edinb to Ldn. | Rounsfell | 12/12/2023 |
From verge parking/ gate to SE. Signed Turner’s Monument Circular 2, but no path. Headed straight uphill over pleasant sheep pasture with some heather and 1 bw fence, crossing good gravel track. Impressive 19th Century stone tower/ monument on top. Also pivot or old trig on flat horizontal rock on SW corner? Great views on sunny day. Solo. Return same way. Memorial to itinerant horn cutlery maker, and Covenanter, d 1841, who funded his own memorial. https://www.dunscore.org.uk/items-of-interest/johnnie-turner/ | Denise | 27/11/2023 |
scott duncan | 12/10/2023 | |
Followed the stone track from the road to the SSE, signposted Turner's Monument Circular. Parking adjacent to track entrance. Initially Bennan then Craigelwhan. | summitter | 24/07/2023 |
Stickman | 26/06/2023 | |
4/5 Marilyns. Parked at NX 82640-75645. Walked up land rover tracks to near top. Mountain bike able as seen by a young chaps old and cheap MTB near the top. | Jhimmy | 30/07/2022 |
Third hill of the day, unfamiliar place and alwys finding it a bit hard to get car wide and ling tucked off road. This must be a posh estate, houses painted pink. Parked in a wide lay by with plentyof space just before Glen House etc. Over an unopenable gate, plodded through field with sheep and lamps, to the out by gate, which can be opened ….ATV track petered out at a big sheep fank…therafter thank less plod through moss filled hags….met another dry stane dyke and followed that westwards…and onto Turners Monument…. Saw Henry Moore sculpture on way up. NOTE, if you continue on this road, there is a Core Path to monument, with a lovely big place to leave car . | VerySlowPlodder | 06/07/2022 |
Solo trip. It looks as though there will be another new track, signposted and starting at NX829763 (where you can park on the verge). However it fizzles out after ~200m. There is another bit NW of the gate in the 2nd wall. Easy enough ground even if you don't use the track. | Invicta14 | 29/05/2022 |
Good parking for 2 cars by the tree at the start of the new track (8264 7567) | 49pp | 07/03/2022 |
kanderson | 01/03/2022 | |
thenomad | 07/02/2022 | |
from small car park at Glen Kiln reservoir. Our route of ascent was not the best - rough heather, bog and tussocks occasionally relieved by some intermittent atv tracks. Signs of excavation for a possible wind farm. This confirmed higher up when we could see the newly built access track. Johnnie Turner monument is a great spot; the views are superb and the history of this travelling horn worker is fascinating. Descent quick via the new road which passes the Glenkiln cross, a Henry Moore sculpture on the hillside. | sarahk | 04/01/2022 |
Track taken from near the small reservoir and dam which peters out after a short while and then it is easy tussocky sometimes wet ground to the summit which is adorned with the wonderful Turners Monument which is an Intersected Station also. From here a descent to the main track crossed just before the summit where we headed right to beneath Craigelwhan where we branched off at a small quarry area to the summit which houses an ancient shepherds cairn. Returned back to the track which we followed to the road and the short walk along it to the car. | Wayne Mac | 05/12/2021 |
From road on signposted track, then directly up to the summit monument. | Winterfloodian | 22/10/2021 |
ketzster | 10/10/2021 | |
Signposted wide track from gate to south of hill. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 06/10/2021 |
Parked at NX8264475658. Followed track, then new track which branches of to right/North which leads to within 200m of summit. | PeteF | 13/09/2021 |
m0jla | 11/09/2021 | |
1 of 3: From the sign at 826756. With Karen. | ChrisR | 01/09/2021 |
Parked NX826756 then easy walking on track almost to the summit. Gates all openable for dogs / bikes & the one cattle grid has a pedestrian gate. Sheep in abundance. We continued past several small paths to the summit, crossed the dyke (gate) and ascended from the NE to re-cross the dyke at a high gate near the summit. Heather & moss but easy enough underfoot, probably quite wet in winter. Not your usual adventure but the straightforward walk was rewarded by incredible views from the summit. With dog, J&JP. | catlovesmaps | 10/08/2021 |
TONY DEALL | 07/07/2021 | |
Ben Rinnes | 28/06/2021 | |
hillhunter | 07/03/2021 | |
NickF | 22/02/2021 | |
With Teddy. Parked up at the foot of the signposted path and made my way on good tracks to the monument. Quickly up and down. | jigglybones | 16/01/2021 |
From the road (NX 8265 7567), parking available for a few cars. Could have driven up to around NX 8226 7662 where there is also space to park. On to Craigelwhan. | jonglew | 12/01/2021 |
govanah | 04/11/2020 | |
weaselmaster | 03/09/2020 | |
dave g | 11/06/2020 | |
Turners monument, 1st of many ascents this year. | RO-7023 | 15/04/2020 |
Park on W side of road in a space big enough for a couple of vehicles at NX82647562. Walk N up road for 40m, then follow track W to junction at NX82187583. Take the right fork NW. This major vehicle track looks recently upgraded and continues high onto the hill and beyond to the NE. Due to high winds from the W we continued around to E of the summit on this excellent vehicle track to NX82347686. Then NW over easy ground following the easiest line we could find to the summit. | geralddavison | 12/03/2020 |
beckybags | 12/03/2020 | |
A Peckish | 12/03/2020 | |
m0untain_n0mad | 08/03/2020 | |
tomandivy | 10/02/2020 | |
From tight parking by the gate. Second visit on a fine, crisp morning | Colin Crawford | 09/12/2019 |
The Fife Flyer | 24/11/2019 | |
duchally | 08/08/2019 | |
Dave McG | 07/08/2019 | |
PGCE | 26/05/2019 | |
Simon Winton | 13/04/2019 | |
From sign through gate and up. There are two gates in bwf. I took the left but the right looks shorter in hindsight. Very misty but nice to see the monument on my six hundredth Marilyn. | SS | 24/02/2019 |
Unsure of date - during Feb 2019 | limelight986 | 10/02/2019 |
From Glenkiln reservoir car park. 
 
We walked north along the road for 400m and took a left at the junction. At the junction, once upon a time, there was a Rodin sculpture. The Wikipedia page for Glenkiln sculpture park makes interesting reading. The sculpture is no longer there because one of the others was stolen. 
 
We walked past Shalloch and continued on the forest road for a further kilometre and a half to a T-junction. Here we took a left, the road deteriorating. After another 750m there is a narrow, wet track branching off on the right. This is shown on the 1:25000 (but not the 1:50000). We took that to the forest edge. From this point it is possible to follow ATV tracks (still within the forest boundary) until a stile over the wall is reached. We crossed that and then followed the wall on the other side through often marshy ground until a further junction of walls at the 350m mark. The wall here is easily surmounted and then you find your way up to the summit of Bennan and it | Clach Liath | 09/12/2018 |
With Jack. | iangpark | 07/10/2018 |
aul-fogie | 06/10/2018 | |
trimarc2 | 22/08/2018 |