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| Name: | Bonchester Hill |
| Hill number: | 7488 |
| Height: | 323m / 1060ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2311 Peel Fell |
| RHB Section: | 28B: The River Tweed to the English Border |
| Donald area: | The Cheviots |
| County/UA: | Scottish Borders |
| Catchment: | Tweed |
| Class: | Tump (300-399m), Subhump, Yeaman (Tu,3,sHu,Y) |
| Grid ref: | NT 59462 11783 |
| Summit feature: | cairn |
| Drop: | 99m |
| Col: | 224m NT595108  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 80 (1:25k) 331 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 40 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| With L | Janet M | 14/04/2024 |
| A classic Hill Fort. Lovely | Play2End | 27/11/2022 |
| First tump with Gem as married couple. Walked from 1 Fairrule Cottage and back. No marked path but a series of farmer paths with gates gets you there. There is a wall with a flat log you have to climb over and final assent no path. Easy enough though. Cracking panoramic view. | jordanwalmsley1987 | 24/09/2022 |
| Dirt pull-in at NT 5882 1180. Nice walk up to the top. | jonglew | 30/12/2021 |
| P at a layby a little way along a minor road (off A6088) just E of Bonchester. Finger post a short distance N along minor road. Lots of sheep on pasture slopes. Good view of Rubers Law. | ger | 30/04/2021 |
| First climb to look at our new house in Bonchester Bridge | magneticnorth | 19/08/2020 |
| Hawick Paths signposted to the summit | Adrian | 19/07/2020 |
| Short walk with the family from Hobkirk. Tricky to find a route across Rule Water from where we were staying but got there in the end. Great views from the top and very good weather. | PaulJN | 27/10/2019 |
| Parked at jct. with A6088; off road from signpost just above Bonchester Farm. Improved pasture, stile, then made our way up rough pasture to the very good summit. Maybe that ground 2m from trig is higher. T99?. Worthwhile regardless. Last of a day of quick bags before forecast rain, which came as we finished. More coffee, at the community café in Hawick (with delicious cake!). With brother Pete. | pwheeler | 24/09/2019 |
| Verge parking to SW near f/p sign to Bonchester Hill at NT 5907.1115. Three stiles and fields to top. | Aye Jimmy | 29/10/2018 |
| From WNW steeply up marked path. | RobertP | 22/07/2018 |
| Signed path from S with parking at jct. HP appears to be knoll 2m W of cairn but may not be natural and could be higher ground beneath cairn. Near to completing Humps, thought best to do this P99! Nice way to round off the weekend | RHW | 15/04/2018 |
| Straight up and down from Bonchester fm. | Moorponder | 08/07/2017 |
| Fingerpost opposite the entrance to Bonchester Farm points the way - verge parking. Nice top, good views | Crib Goch | 26/09/2015 |
| As Bernie | nordicstar | 30/08/2014 |
| From Bonchester Bridge to Carter Bar road. Returning from Edinburgh. Fabulous sunny afternoon, | rfoster | 25/05/2014 |
| From NW, straight up. | agentmancuso | 22/07/2005 |
| climbed with Robert 8th January 2022 | lancastern | blank |
| Lindsay M | 14/04/2024 | |
| Rambling Ray | 28/08/2023 | |
| Pete R | 25/03/2023 | |
| Rod M | 13/07/2022 | |
| Dave McG | 30/12/2021 | |
| Lucky | 17/07/2019 | |
| maknipe | 17/07/2019 | |
| Alan Whatley | 07/10/2018 | |
| walk livi | 10/10/2017 | |
| PaulineD | 10/10/2017 | |
| Dave Geere | 01/03/2017 | |
| MattBruce | 01/01/2017 | |
| irobbo | 07/09/2016 | |
| vegibagger | 02/09/2015 | |
| alanm9 | 05/06/2015 | |
| chalky1953 | 31/03/2015 | |
| Colin Crawford | 01/11/2014 | |
| Andrew Simmons | 20/04/2008 | |
| ianwatson | 18/04/2007 | |
| Sherlock | 31/12/2006 | |
| Sherlock | 20/01/1996 | |
| Robertgee | blank |