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Name: | Balshando Hill |
Hill number: | 12904 |
Height: | 266m / 873ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1670 King's Seat |
RHB Section: | 26A: Central Scotland from Dumbarton to Montrose |
County/UA: | Angus |
Catchment: | Tay |
Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
Grid ref: | NO 27808 35495 |
Summit feature: | no feature: ground near bench |
Drop: | 34m |
Col: | 232m NO275352 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 53 (1:25k) 380E 380W |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 23 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
From the Ledyatt Loch CP. A gate besides the cattle grid gives access to a field, enabling the skirting of Ledyatt Wood. A gate/broken fence E of Balshando Hill then provides a reasonable walk through Naiad Wood to the summit. I then went S and over a fence into a field, exiting again NE of Blacklaw Hill West Top. Bit of a heather bash to the summit ridge, where a vehicle track goes to the summit and then pretty much all the way to Blacklaw Hill proper. From the trig I went N down to a gorse-lined burn, but easy to jump across where there are gaps in the gorse. Kept to the edge of the field until reaching a pylon line. This has created a ride in Ledyatt Wood along which a footpath leads all the way to the wood's west side and then can be skirted all the way around back to the car. | summitter | 19/12/2023 |
From the fishery. There’s a gap in the fence where the path is shown on the map, but it goes straight into a quagmire. | govanah | 18/11/2023 |
The woodland path very damp. Easy to find from the trout loch. | Play2End | 24/09/2023 |
Park on A923 at fishery entrance. Turn right at cattle grid to cross field and enter wood by gate, ducking under single strand electric fence. Easily to top. The bench lies below the high point. | NormanW | 20/03/2022 |
Weather fair. | MountainMac | 20/03/2021 |
From Ledyatt Loch entrance. Gate into pasture then along edge of trees and across to plantation gate and info board. Clear tracks (at this time of year) so very easily to summit. No fences to cross. | Tony S | 14/03/2021 |
Parked at bottom of fishery track then round fields to entrance. There is a ride as per the 1:25 map but a bit overgrown in places particularly near the summit. Forest was planted as part of the Woodland Trust Trafalgar project - info board on ground at entry. | daviemore | 28/05/2020 |
From north through nettles and Trafalgar Wood; wood seems to have been totally neglected since being planted in 2005. | richtea5040 | 07/09/2019 |
as minto from minor road, | robertphillips | 11/03/2019 |
Not as fearful as I'd expected. Most of the approach from Ledyard Loch road end was easy fields. The bay willow herb was now dead and the young trees weren't too hard to push through. I had to search for the bench, a little below the high point | Colin Crawford | 25/10/2017 |
Rd of Blacklaw W, Blacklaw and Balshando from the west. There is a nice rocky grass top but it is defended by thick vegetation on all sides, all within a high fence. There is a gate with a welcome sign and a history lesson near the east end but whatever path or track to the summit that there may once have been, has been long since taken over by thick and impenetrable two metre high willow herb to which I surrendered. There appears to be no easier way to the summit than to scale the high fence at the west end so if you do not care to scale high fences you may have to give this one a miss. | Topographer57 | 14/10/2017 |
Parked on verge 50m down side road to Lundie. 
Cows in field opposite to went 100m W, then gate into next field. However, on reaching the summit the dividing fence is breached, and there's no gate, so met the cows again. Shoo-ed them away to climb the fence here. Through pines and nettles to the marked path. Which doesn't exist. Should've heeding the advice of chrisbien. Go climb this in late winter! Bench still there 20m west of summit. Retraced outward route, including more cow shooing. | Minto | 16/07/2017 |
P start of track to Ledyatt Loch. Gate at E end of wood. No discernable path. Bad enough in winter must be awful in summer. Top is clear and obvious. | chrisbien | 29/01/2017 |
With alda. 14 of 32. | Lindsay M | 30/05/2015 |
Easy approach from the west but a wee shite within the summit compound - thick vegetation and trees protected by an awkward high fence. Entrance from the west avoids the trees but if there is a gate at the east of the compound then it may be worth seeking out even if the path is no more. Summit is a patch of nettles next to a rarely-used bench. 14 of 32. | alda | 30/05/2015 |
AFD90 | 12/03/2022 | |
hill walker | 10/10/2021 | |
benarmine | 13/11/2020 | |
Tricky | 21/10/2020 | |
duchally | 21/02/2019 | |
Oik | 02/01/2017 | |
clashcityrocker | 11/05/2015 | |
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