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| Name: | Hill of Edzell |
| Hill number: | 6111 |
| Height: | 228m / 748ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 501 Hill of Wirren |
| RHB Section: | 07B: Braemar to Montrose |
| County/UA: | Angus |
| Catchment: | North Esk |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m), Subhump (Tu,2,sHu) |
| Grid ref: | NO 57940 70214 |
| Summit feature: | ground by trig point |
| Drop: | 91m |
| Col: | 137m NO570702  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 44 (1:25k) 389 |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 16 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Track up from SW through felled forestry continues most the way to summit. | Topographer57 | 13/02/2024 |
| From Mains of Edzell | Gonk | 16/11/2022 |
| From picnic site on West Water, up through fields with very long grass. Track along ridge to trig point, then return using friendly tracks descending from mast | Colin Crawford | 25/06/2022 |
| From large parking area to south. Electric fencing avoided using the following gates: NO 5786 6903 (with hook to unhook elastic), NO 5793 6941, NO 5834 6964 (up SW side trees), NO 5812 6987, NO 5809 6990 and up thru' copse on animal track. Climb out of copse over ordinary fencing topped with barbed wire. | carole engel | 13/08/2021 |
| Weather fair. | MountainMac | 01/04/2021 |
| Here for the trigpoint. TP:UK log: Parking NO 57807 68900/N56° 48.585' W2° 41.558'. Parked at picnic spot walked up road and through gate (electric fence but had a handle), up edge of field, crossed another fence then followed tramlines to corner, across another fence to trigpoint. Much steeper than it looked from the car. | thejackrustles | 25/09/2020 |
| From parking near a gate to the west near power lines. | robertphillips | 17/03/2020 |
| From Drummore and return via telecoms track to Mains. A fine viewpoint. | Tony S | 16/02/2018 |
| From the NE. Part of the forest on that side of the hill has been felled and a convenient firebreak takes a direct line through the remaining trees. | Lindsay M | 18/01/2018 |
| Nevermind the bullocks! | summitter | 23/09/2017 |
| RHW | 25/05/2007 | |
| govanah | 07/11/2021 | |
| Alan Whatley | 25/10/2021 | |
| alex6076 | 17/09/2020 | |
| hill walker | 09/03/2019 | |
| Oh no I forgot... | 21/07/2017 |