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| Name: | Hill of Wirren |
| Hill number: | 501 |
| Height: | 678m / 2224ft |
| RHB Section: | 07B: Braemar to Montrose |
| County/UA: | Angus |
| Catchment: | North Esk |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Graham, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,G,Y) |
| Grid ref: | NO 52285 73928 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: 7m SSW of trig point |
| Drop: | 311m |
| Col: | 367m NO493752  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 44 (1:25k) 389 |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 277 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Frogreen | 16/03/2024 | |
| Stickman | 19/02/2024 | |
| stuartgreig | 02/12/2023 | |
| Solo. From Bridgend, parking at the Community Hall. Up to end of tracks then along by fence to the summit. Back same way. Extremely windy today! | Dangerous Dave | 29/09/2023 |
| Am Bodach | 28/09/2023 | |
| https://www.strava.com/activities/9548019737 | Alastair S | 29/07/2023 |
| anguscow | 19/07/2023 | |
| Sick Kid | 02/07/2023 | |
| weaselmaster | 02/07/2023 | |
| yorkielad | 15/06/2023 | |
| From Bridgend, by track with bike to 525730, then across heather, tussocks and peat hags to summit, thento col and along to East Wirren, then back along track to bike. Ascent 2 hours, descent in 15 min! | IanHHill | 15/05/2023 |
| weaselmaster | 04/05/2023 | |
| With Yeltzbagger and Ketzster from the school. No views and the top is a quagmire with nasty fences.The curlews and lapwings lower down made it special. | Stevie n Tay | 19/03/2023 |
| ketzster | 19/03/2023 | |
| Andrew Stalker | 19/03/2023 | |
| From Lethnot Primary School, Bridgend, up track, over Shank of Ledmaine, then N to summit at track junction thought peat hags. SE to East Wirren (summit & trig) & finally descent over Craig Narb and Hill of Formal back to Dikehead and school. | MichaelF | 31/10/2022 |
| booboowalking | 25/09/2022 | |
| CK | SheilaS | 23/05/2022 |
| From the Glen Lethnot road by Auchowrie, cutting up a grassy slope to join the zigzag track up East Craig beyond the farm, keeping just below the shoulder of Hill of Wirren to outflank its peat hag embankment, then taking ridge top tracks to Craigangower and a steep up and down through heather to Bulg. Back the same way, taking the westerly track to the top of East Craig. The best of walk was after Hill of Wirren: a fine ridge walk with a cloud inversion lapping its eastern side and a remote and distinct hill topped with the remains of a large ancient cairn at Bulg. | Nick Down1 | 14/01/2022 |
| Up and down the road from Lethnot Primary School, Bridgend [now closed]. | Pete R | 02/01/2022 |
| Park at NO534786. The notice at the track entrance regarding the bridge being closed should not put off walkers. Smile you are on candid camera… Plenty of well developed tracks to choose to the summit. | BaggerGutt | 06/11/2021 |
| ThickIce | 13/10/2021 | |
| SunnyAdventures | 07/10/2021 | |
| Ralph | 06/10/2021 | |
| gomezhdm | 26/09/2021 | |
| 13 mile circular from minor road north of Dalbog. Followed track through woods near river then ascended track to Shanno Castle from the north (Not marked on map). From here there are plenty of grouse shooting tracks taking you up to the Red Craig ridge and onto Bulg. Then pathless steep terrain onto Craigangower and a good track over Hill of Wirren across dry bogs to summit then along ridge via East Wirren trig to The Crannel. We descended back to car. Nobody else about. High cloud with good views south. 859m ascent altogether. | DanTrig | 12/09/2021 |
| bobhem25 | 12/09/2021 | |
| From Bridgend school - Shank of Ledmanie. Back via East Wirren and Craig Narb. It was shoes off for the crossing of the Burn of Drumcairn as there was no bridge just s ford. | garyhoney | 23/08/2021 |
| jameshoney | 23/08/2021 | |
| By eMTB | PeteF | 22/08/2021 |
| From NO 503727. Good track up past grouse butts, intermittent thereafter but easy going | carole engel | 13/08/2021 |
| From the primary school, taking in East Wirren on the descent. | Grinner | 11/07/2021 |
| Circuit from parking area by Millden Lodge. Recorded route and write-up at: http://gayleybird.blogspot.com/2021/07/hill-of-wirren.html | Gayle | 03/07/2021 |
| eddieh | 12/06/2021 | |
| booboowalking | 23/05/2021 | |
| GoldenBhoy | 03/10/2020 | |
| Start at the old school at Bridgend Grid 536683. Follow the track passed Mill of Lethnot School and on to the track up Shank of Ledmanie to Hill of Wirren, return back the same way. | smocks and denims | 17/03/2020 |
| From Bridgend, followed track by Primary School up hill, E of Craig of Finnoch, then along Shank of Ledmanie, then last few hundred metres working through peat hags and over fences, descended W, then SW towards Auchowrie, picking up track that follows line of grouse butts, skirted Auchowrie to join road by a gate at Stonyford, then back to Bridgend along road | kdbennett | 08/03/2020 |
| 1616 | 20/10/2019 | |
| NickF | 28/09/2019 | |
| From Bridgend school on tracks via Dikehead Cottage and Shank of Ledmanie. Back via East Wirren. | Winterfloodian | 25/08/2019 |
| From Lethnot PS up to new lodge then old track along ridge until new scar arrives from right. Took right branch at fork (mistake) then through hags (but still found a bit of the Liberator). Tricky fence crossing at summit due to bog either side. Back by East Wirren and track. | SS | 30/07/2019 |
| Bridgend, up road and track to Dikehead, on up track to top of Rigg of Ledmanie, then contour NNE to fence and then NE to summit. Descend SE to track over to East Wirren, down track below Torr na Menach back to Dikehead. Examined a few of the scary looking manikins, when you get close you almost expect them to move! Too many horror movies maybe? | Flatfield | 19/07/2019 |
| Gonk | 02/07/2019 | |
| 2nd Repeat | chalky1953 | 01/07/2019 |
| On TGO Challenge. Traverse of the hill. Approached from the north. Lots of the bridges shown are either no longer there or unsafe. We used the one at NO 534 782. Followed tracks virtually to the summit trig and surrounding bog. Descended west to Edzell. Lots of new tracks not shown on the map. Strange mannequins all over the hills. Would frighten you to death if you walked up to one in mist! Also gas powered bird scarers which kept loudly going bang, bang like a double action shotgun. | geralddavison | 22/05/2019 |
| A Peckish | 22/05/2019 | |
| StephenPSmith | 21/05/2019 | |
| From Edzell via the Lethnot Road and bulldozed tracks. Last part over rough ground. | Windy Corner | 12/05/2019 |
| GHC Sunday bus to Edzell. Clear and sunny, a lovely day. | Play2End | 10/02/2019 |