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| Name: | Noup Head |
| Hill number: | 12226 |
| Height: | 77m / 253ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 1557 Fitty Hill |
| RHB Section: | 23: Orkney Islands |
| County/UA: | Orkney Islands |
| Island: | Westray |
| Class: | Tump (0-99m) (Tu,0) |
| Grid ref: | HY 39187 49710 |
| Summit feature: | no feature |
| Drop: | 33m |
| Col: | 44m HY394492  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 5 (1:25k) 464 |
| Observations: | summit is 70cm higher than trig point fb |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 43 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Fourth hill of the day on a round front Pierowall. A fine cliff and lighthouse view to mark my last viable Tump on Orkney | Colin Crawford | 31/07/2023 |
| from CP at Backarass walked up road to Noup Farm and then track to lighthouse and up to Trig and HP. Sunny and snowy, welcome to British summertime? Surprised the Westray wildcat who was taking shelter on the summit | grumpy | 26/03/2023 |
| Short hike up to trig pillar from next to the lighthouse. Glorious still with big feeling of vastness of the ocean round 7/8ths of the headland from top of 200ft cliffs. | vegibagger | 03/09/2022 |
| Drove to lighthouse car park. No need for 4x4, though track a little rough in places. With Dangerous Dave and Bryher. Coastal path to North Hill, and back by road. | Minto | 31/07/2022 |
| From the lighthouse car park. With Minto & Bryer. | Dangerous Dave | 31/07/2022 |
| Part of ambly walk. V intersting sea cliffs with breeding sea birds. | VerySlowPlodder | 03/06/2022 |
| 2 of 2: After Fitty Hill. Drove to North House where 3 other cars were parked. The last 400m driving was very bad, after the road end. We walked to the lighthouse, then up to the TP. As we watched a pod of dolphins Karen spotted some white markings so we wondered if they were Orcas? | ChrisR | 07/08/2020 |
| Along cliffs from parking place at Backarass. Several fences and large stiles to negotiate. Return via North Hill. | the pigguy | 20/03/2020 |
| Only took the car as far as North house ruin, it’s not 4x4. Track to lighthouse and then to trig and HP. A fascinating place, windy and lots of seabirds with some hovering at the cliff edge just a few metres away. Returned via North Hill | PeterD | 26/06/2019 |
| A good walk. Jon Glew's 4WD was needed to get to the lighthouse car park, not good for a 2WD. Circumnavigating the lighthouse wall is exciting, then a stroll to Noup Head. Good walking along the cliff edge with spectacular views of geos, cliffs and caves, to head up North Hill from the SW along a grassy/rocky ridge. Down to the inland variant of the cliff path and back to the lighthouse. | Gill | 26/02/2019 |
| Drove to lighthouse. After Noup Head, cliff walk to North Hill. | jonglew | 26/02/2019 |
| Up W Coast from Fitty Hill. | Chris Peart | 30/06/2016 |
| Entertaining seabirds. Pretty spot on a sunny day. Shame it was so windy. | jenx | 12/06/2016 |
| Fitty Hill - The Noup circular walk | nordicstar | 12/06/2016 |
| What a beautiful spot for a trig with Jim Bloomer and Tricky Speirs on a sunny morning. | Dugswell2 | 29/05/2014 |
| Impressive situation. | chalky1953 | 26/05/2014 |
| Visited with Theo during short break on Westray. | Skerryvore | 12/10/2004 |
| RHW | 01/08/2002 | |
| Date not known | callumblack | 01/05/2002 |
| Pete R | 19/05/2023 | |
| mae | 05/08/2022 | |
| govanah | 02/05/2022 | |
| Simon Winton | 27/04/2022 | |
| SpudGunn | 25/08/2021 | |
| A Peckish | 19/06/2019 | |
| beckybags | 19/06/2019 | |
| IainT | 17/06/2019 | |
| SteveG | 05/06/2019 | |
| Tom Mundell | 30/06/2018 | |
| Trekking toes | 30/06/2018 | |
| Campbell Singer | 31/03/2015 | |
| Barbara Singer | 31/03/2015 | |
| Jim.Fothergill | 02/06/2014 | |
| Gallovidian | 01/06/2014 | |
| jimbloomer | 29/05/2014 | |
| Tricky | 29/05/2014 | |
| Martin R | 14/05/2012 | |
| Fletch | 22/07/2008 | |
| Ken_Stewart | 04/08/2005 | |
| Denise | 03/06/2005 | |
| Arctica | 01/08/2002 | |
| fasgadh | 16/05/2002 | |
| Belfarm | blank |