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| Name: | Gump of Spurness |
| Hill number: | 12246 |
| Height: | 53m / 174ft |
| Parent (Ma): | none |
| RHB Section: | 23: Orkney Islands |
| County/UA: | Orkney Islands |
| Island: | Sanday (Orkney) |
| Class: | Tump (0-99m) (Tu,0) |
| Grid ref: | HY 60400 35932 |
| Summit feature: | no feature |
| Drop: | 35m |
| Col: | 18m HY615365  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 5 6 (1:25k) 465N 465S |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 17 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| I omitted this Tump on my earlier visit to Sanday so had to return. Easy plod over pasture ro summit and trig | Colin Crawford | 29/07/2023 |
| Had to wait and have a doze in back of cat for couple of hours while rain and wind battered my car. Late afternoon it calmed and I could go up to the trig pillar then 3-400 metres north to the TUMP. | vegibagger | 05/09/2022 |
| Bagged the trig with Tim Hawkes then onto the Tump summit by myself. | Dugswell2 | 14/08/2022 |
| Parked at wind farm office (HY 6066 3561). Up to trig pillar first then ~350m across to high point. Lots of feisty cattle around. | jonglew | 11/08/2022 |
| Parked in fire assembly point for Windfarm buildings. Visited trig as well. | Minto | 09/08/2022 |
| Walking back from the Wart to the ferry. Also visited the trig. | NormanW | 01/08/2022 |
| Day trip to Sanday.Bus to Kettletoft then walked back to ferry. With B and R. | jenx | 01/08/2022 |
| Quick ascent up empty field before leaving on the ferry. | fasgadh | 13/04/2018 |
| Completion Tump on Sanday, appendix to excursion to North Ronaldsay. Collected from Loft terminal by Evan W. in car and taken to electricity sub-station. We went through gate and up across fields to ridge, south to trig, then north to summit. Down east to road, south to car, and north to his house. | mainnirnamfiadh | 14/08/2016 |
| Round of Sanday Tumps from ferry returning via coastline | jimbloomer | 06/06/2014 |
| RHW | 31/05/2010 | |
| Date approximate. I was working on Sanday whist a student on a Uni project and explored the island thoroughly on a bike I was loaned by the family I was staying with. | Swindon Bagger | 05/08/1987 |
| SteveG | 12/08/2022 | |
| AndyS | 23/07/2018 | |
| Tricky | 06/06/2014 | |
| richtea5040 | 30/05/2014 | |
| chalky1953 | 28/05/2014 |