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Name: | Warklaw Hill |
Hill number: | 14149 |
Height: | 278m / 912ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1816 Allermuir Hill |
RHB Section: | 28A: Firth of Forth to the River Tweed |
County/UA: | Edinburgh |
Catchment: | Forth |
Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
Grid ref: | NT 19856 67356 |
Summit feature: | no feature: ground SW of mast |
Drop: | 44m |
Col: | 234m NT197667 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 65 66 (1:25k) 344 350 |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 60 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Made the mistake of coming up South of Torphin Quarry. Stone wall and barb wire fence stopped me about 100m short of the summit by the phone mast. Dropped down to Clubbiedean Reservoir and went up from there. | tsharp | 01/12/2023 |
From Heriot Watt university. Fine views from the top. | cjwilliams | 19/09/2023 |
Quick stop on way home. Up from lower carpark. Numerous good paths. Torduff reservoir looking very pretty with it's steep heathery slopes. | Lynnebe | 19/08/2023 |
Pleasant walk over Hare, Black and Warklaw Hills between bus termini of Balerno and Torphin. | lordtonult | 14/02/2023 |
parked Bonaly Lower CP walked towards reservoir cut up onto hill by gap in wall and good tracks up to mast | grumpy | 06/06/2022 |
From Torphin road end took FP, once past quarry then up field in gap between gorse to mast and HP. | PeterD | 14/05/2022 |
Bagged while successfully hunting a Trigpointing bolt. Very cold and windy. With CJ. | BigJ | 22/02/2022 |
Parked in the the Bonaly upper car park then walked via the reservoir, up to the paddocka and through the woods to the mast. | JAdair97 | 29/01/2022 |
Parked at Torphin road end. Took the sighed path to East Kinleigth. Diverged off the path up to the top. | Andrew Simmons | 06/01/2022 |
A short late afternoon walk from Torphin Road. First time visit to this area. Possibilities of bus walk from No10 terminus in Torphin Road into the Pentlands. | langskill | 21/03/2021 |
On walk from Bonaly to Torphin via Torduff and Clubbiedean reservoirs. Very muddy at Easter Kinleith farm. Excellent viewpoint. | Thearlaichdubh | 26/11/2020 |
Makes into a good circular walk round Torduff and Clubbiedean reservoirs then Colinton village | Hirta | 28/08/2020 |
The hill was a WWII Starfish Decoy site - where fires were burnt at night to try to attract emeny bombers away from nearby Edinburgh. Visited on a 4 tump walk with L from Bonaly County Park. The gem of the hill being the narrow craggy gorge, small reservoir, and sub-tump of Torduf Hill.Back at the car we craned our necks upwards at 4 linesmen working high up on the power line tower and cables. Seems like the power can still be live as they rely on the faraday cage effect for safety - surely not? | Chris Pearson | 14/07/2020 |
From Blinkbonny via the Poets Glen woods then Torphin track/path. | N.Morters | 08/06/2020 |
Up from Torphin. Nice wee walk. | sclater | 02/02/2020 |
From Torphin. Along the path to Easter Kinleith, detouring to the hill about half way along, then returning via the disused golf course. Superb views to Edinburgh and the Forth. | summitter | 03/01/2020 |
Up from Torphin Road from water pipeline construction works. Pass a couple of CCTV cameras into the site of a recently closed golf course. Good paths lead to just east of the summit, where the derelict land gives way to sheep pasture. Very fine viewpoint. Return via steep descent to path on the north side. | fasgadh | 24/07/2019 |
Parked at End of Torphin Road, through gate to Easter Kinleith and followed track/path west then south then east to the top. 
Blowing a ‘hoolie’ on top today but rather good views. | Jubilado | 27/01/2019 |
Heading back to Bonaly C.P. Nice wee hill next to mast. | Play2End | 10/11/2018 |
Curriehill-Warklaw Hill-Castlelaw Hill-Turnhouse Hill-Carnethy Hill-Hare Hill-trig near Threipmuir Reservoir-Balerno-Curriehill | campagvelocet | 02/11/2018 |
From end of the road at Torphin. Good graded track to NT 1984 6759, then steeply up through gorsey. Obvious HP WSW of the comms mast. | jonglew | 12/10/2018 |
Currie - Water of Leith - Minor road south to join path which goes just north of hill - Quick up and down from path - Water of Leith at Juniper Green. | russell61 | 03/07/2018 |
From Bonaly country party to the east along paths west and over textbooks dam then south to summit which odds just beyond the radio mast | vegibagger | 29/06/2018 |
Short walk but nice. | hillsman | 22/06/2018 |
From torphin road end path then up left at gate under power lines. | robertphillips | 20/12/2017 |
From ne, Torphin, as others. Nice easy scenic walk | RHW | 11/12/2016 |
No 10 bus from West End to Torphin, then walk along side of quarry until gorse diminished enough to head up to the ridge with its fine mast. A large tree obscures the view over Edinburgh but I could see the 2.95 Forth bridges rising above the mist on the Forth. A <2 hour round trip from the West End. | Thearlaichdubh | 05/12/2016 |
I drove along Woodhall Road, then robbed Woodhall Bank before turning into Torphin Road to park before using the right of way to gain the sheep pasture to the west of the quarry. No walls or fences were climbed to bag this TUMP. | Dugswell2 | 14/02/2015 |
walk from the road end and then turn left and up. | Adrian | 14/02/2015 |
Quick route on track from west through muddy farmyard, well used by walkers, no problem (met farmer), but would be a better walk from east. Good viewpoint. | alda | 08/01/2015 |
P Torphin. Along path then steeply up by wall to Aerial mast and summit a little SW. | chrisbien | 31/08/2014 |
nigheandonn | 01/01/2024 | |
thestuza | 21/09/2023 | |
Martin R | 21/07/2023 | |
RickyP | 01/01/2023 | |
stevent0809 | 16/01/2022 | |
Gallovidian | 24/03/2021 | |
hillhunter | 01/11/2020 | |
curlebd | 15/03/2020 | |
Ben Rinnes | 10/03/2020 | |
oriolefan101 | 13/01/2018 | |
amcvey | 05/05/2017 | |
Michal Musialowicz | 18/02/2017 | |
interloper | 10/03/2016 | |
Fletch | 10/03/2016 | |
oscar | 24/02/2016 | |
iaindbrown | 15/02/2015 | |
Colin Crawford | 05/02/2015 | |
PM | 22/11/2014 | |
samblackburn | 12/10/2014 |