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Name:Swirlhead Hill
Hill number:12912
Height:257m / 843ft
Parent (Ma):1670  King's Seat
RHB Section:26A: Central Scotland from Dumbarton to Montrose
County/UA:Perth and Kinross
Catchment:Tay
Class:Tump (200-299m)
(Tu,2)
Grid ref:NO 21020 28292
Summit feature:ground by fence junction
Drop:34m
Col:223m  NO210287  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 53 58
(1:25k) 380W
Observations:ground c 20m SE may be as high
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 23 users)ByDate of Ascent
Montague Hill, Swirlhead Hill, and Beal Hill from road junction.daviemore24/02/2021
Up track from the road.Play2End02/07/2019
3 tump round beal hill, swirlhead hill, montague hill, from parking at hp of minor road west of ladywell.robertphillips30/01/2019
6th of 8 during a walk from Flawcraig. Pretty good walking from Hill of Franklyden, keeping to the high ground, over another (unnamed) 257m hill.Rod M21/11/2017
From the road col, then an easy grassy strollColin Crawford26/10/2017
From the same parking spot as Beal Hill. Sheep tracks to summit.NormanW25/08/2017
Good parking for this and Beal Hill at top of pass. Track then path most of the way.Minto12/08/2017
Had just flown over this in a microlight so thought it worth climbing. Track from high point on road to the south at Ladywell took me to sheep trails then onto open heather/blaeberry summit.summitter28/05/2017
With Inez + Wilsonclashcityrocker20/02/2017
P start of short track then path most of the way.chrisbien05/02/2017
From top of road pass, easy going on short and smooth grass.Topographer5719/11/2015
Parked to S of Montague Hill. Walked E along quiet road then up grassy path to summit area.Lindsay M19/07/2015
Good grassy path most of the way up from SW, pleasant easy goingalda11/02/2015
From road to SE near Ladywell.richtea504004/01/2015
hill walker08/05/2022
AFD9001/02/2022
Tricky30/10/2020
Waterlog29/06/2020
duchally12/02/2020
Adrian15/08/2018
Oik04/10/2017
Ken_Stewart13/03/2017
benarmine23/01/2016