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Name: | Cockburn Law |
Hill number: | 5098 |
Height: | 325m / 1066ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1825 Dirrington Great Law |
RHB Section: | 28A: Firth of Forth to the River Tweed |
County/UA: | Scottish Borders |
Catchment: | Tweed |
Class: | Hump, Tump (300-399m), Yeaman (Hu,Tu,3,Y) |
Grid ref: | NT 76572 59740 |
Summit feature: | ground within 2m of trig point |
Drop: | 123m |
Col: | 202m NT738589 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 67 74 (1:25k) 346 |
Survey: | obvious summit |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 62 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Lopp of Abbey Hill (Inner), Windshiel Hill and Cockburn Law from Abbey St Bathans. Mostly through fields with a road part way between the first two. Returned back via Abbey Hill. | Tisteln | 07/01/2024 |
The broch car park is only a lay-by (NT789609). Signed FP to broch. Stile over BWF above broch. Next BWF is negotiable beside a locked gate at the plantation | Isbjorn | 25/12/2023 |
via Edin's Hall broch. | BLACKHILL | 04/09/2023 |
Dusk ascent from south. After a very hot summer, 13 degrees and a breeze felt a bit chilly. | Wycombe Wanderer | 30/08/2022 |
From HP on road to SW. | sclater | 20/04/2022 |
After Abbey Hill, from bend in road to NW. Headed E, across burn to fence, followed to gates, then up to summit. Descended NE to Edin's Hall Broch, which isn't in the usual style. And then out to the broch car park via the suspension bridge at Elba. | Minto | 21/02/2022 |
From parking on road to the West on a breezy day. On the way back saw a farmer unloading sheep into field with two new lambs, the first I've seen this Spring. | NormanW | 21/02/2022 |
Pleasant walk out to broch then up to summit of Cockburn Law. Had a better look around it on way back -interesting trying to work out how it may have been constructed above the stone. | SS | 23/09/2021 |
Bagging the trig. | BigJ | 09/06/2021 |
A breezy, almost windy, ascent from the 2000 year old broch well signposted from AbbeySt Bathans. | mrs_ts7 | 08/09/2020 |
Parked on the verge at the bend in the road to the NW. Gate at NT75466 60177. Across grassy slopes to the summit. Interestingly two cattle grids at entrance and exit to higher pasture, where there had clearly been cattle earlier in the year. | LizH | 04/03/2020 |
2/4 From NW parking at forest track before bend. Over fields, easy grass to nice summit and old fortifications. | N.Morters | 02/02/2019 |
P col to SW, harvested arable, gates then track. Back down same way past car and up to Windshiel Hill. | agentmancuso | 05/01/2019 |
Parked to the north and initially used a track towards the Edin's Hall fort and Broch before making a direct ascend from the NE over mixed vegetation to fort and white trig. | Dugswell2 | 04/09/2017 |
parked to east, signposted for Edin's Hall and Broch ( free, which we visited- ruins of impressive ancient double walled tower, then up grassy pasture to summit hillfort ( earthworks visible). HP on short grass just by Trig. Great views including to next goal, Abbey Hill. | Denise | 14/04/2017 |
parked at gate west of hill, easy walk to the top. | robertphillips | 28/01/2017 |
Visit to the broch and then straight up. | ARM | 11/03/2016 |
Parked in large farm hay and manure storage area at high point of road to west. Through gate and up through harvested field, over one bwf and onto summit. Again, superb views. Busy farmer in tractor gave me a wave on way down. | Campbell Singer | 09/10/2015 |
From road summit to WSW. Parking OK. 3 gates. | jimbloomer | 18/02/2015 |
Parked at gate just S of pt224. Easy walk up. | chrisbien | 15/05/2010 |
Right of way to Edin's Hall Broch and from there route to summit is easy to see. There are two barbed wire fences to cross en route | KRae | 14/03/2009 |
see log on TrigpointingUK.com. | RHW | 23/09/2007 |
Not sure of the precise date. Direct route West from minor road | SJ | 00/00/2007 |
Gallovidian | 06/01/2024 | |
Fletch | 14/11/2023 | |
interloper | 14/11/2023 | |
B_nDr_mm_nd | 31/05/2023 | |
Matt | 27/02/2023 | |
Pete R | 22/01/2022 | |
PeterAH | 04/03/2020 | |
Berkscire874 | 20/10/2019 | |
easers | 14/02/2019 | |
AndyS | 20/01/2019 | |
Tom Mundell | 19/01/2019 | |
Trekking toes | 19/01/2019 | |
Adrian | 05/10/2018 | |
richtea5040 | 12/09/2018 | |
carole engel | 05/09/2017 | |
irobbo | 25/05/2017 | |
RichardM | 14/04/2017 | |
Tricky | 09/04/2016 | |
nigheandonn | 12/02/2016 | |
mae | 03/02/2016 | |
superstar_tradesman | 31/12/2015 | |
Alan Whatley | 30/10/2015 | |
hils | 05/01/2015 | |
bjewing | 17/11/2013 | |
chalky1953 | 27/07/2013 | |
Martin R | 26/04/2013 | |
Kiltie | 22/04/2013 |