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Name: | Craigbeath Hill |
Hill number: | 12985 |
Height: | 181m / 594ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1669 Dumglow |
RHB Section: | 26A: Central Scotland from Dumbarton to Montrose |
County/UA: | Fife |
Catchment: | Leven (Leven) |
Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
Grid ref: | NT 15394 92563 |
Summit feature: | no feature: ground in small clearing |
Drop: | 30m |
Col: | 151m NT150919 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 58 (1:25k) 367W |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 39 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Last hill of the day for Mikey 2YO and myself, cycled here from Hill of Beath after bagging the 2 St. Ninians peaks. Somewhat hard to find the high ground in all the brush but pretty sure we were there. | Blair512 | 17/02/2024 |
From A909 up through Leuchatsbeath community woodland. | Andrew Simmons | 02/02/2024 |
Weather fair. | MountainMac | 14/10/2023 |
Parked at first building on road into school then up Old Perth Road. | duchally | 21/02/2023 |
Can go from the cemetery or Beath High school. Go round the back of the school to the path along the pitches, up into white threshes, and up to Hilton Road. There's a great wee tarmac zig zag track up, and at the top, go round the back of the nice new houses and follow faint path the few yards to the fence, go L and you arrive at the corner where you can beat a faint thrash through the growth to the natural (ish) high point. The stuff in the compound is higher, but not natural. Google maps is your friend for this one. | Belfarm | 03/06/2022 |
Tick | Nicky C | 30/10/2021 |
From the A909 lay-by, along the asphalt footpaths through the litter strewn Leuchatsbeath community woodland to the Scottish Water compound. Scrambled through and under the gorse to the highest available point as the boundary fence proved unclimbable, impenetrable and probably illegal. | summitter | 05/04/2021 |
Car park on Kelty Road through community woodland. Past water tank and through the patchy gorse to near natural top. Lovely walk through snow. | doigi | 14/02/2021 |
From the E, as per Fife Walking. Pleasant snowy walk in crisp winter sunshine. | Lindsay M | 24/01/2021 |
With L & R | Janet M | 24/01/2021 |
From layby on A909 to the east. Lovely walk through Leuchatsbeath Community Woodland. Summit area in gorse but other vegetation not so bad at this time of year. | Fife Walking | 10/01/2021 |
It's a short distance from the last new house in Sir James Black Road, but much gorse and brambles to negotiate. Not nice. | NormanW | 21/10/2020 |
Drove to the top of the housing estate (Sir James Black Road) and walked short distance to the compound. Thrashed around in tall vegetation to try to cover possibilities outside the fence. | Jubilado | 03/08/2020 |
Houses have now been built close to the top and there is a big area of ground awaiting development. Highpoint in the enclosure but it is artificial both outside and inside. The highest point by the fence is well defended by whins. Approaches from the north are better. | fasgadh | 09/11/2019 |
As others. I thought that the highest point might be in the enclosure but it's academic as you cant get in. | hillsman | 28/01/2019 |
Up the pleasant woodland walk from the north end of Cowdenbeath, then explored the gorse bushes at W boundary of covered reservoir. Great views. | Thearlaichdubh | 28/10/2018 |
drove along track west of top, parked at locked gate, wet grass to gorse. | robertphillips | 18/07/2018 |
Up through the new housing developments to the roundabout then around the reservoir compound. Entering the compound that includes the likely HP was a no-no. | Topographer57 | 28/12/2017 |
As chrisbien. Knoll in gorse W side of compound fence matches 25k spot and could well be natural hp; similar to Ferry Hills situation. As with Pinnel Hill, OS summit definition not always reliable around here | RHW | 29/01/2017 |
I'm with Chris and Rob. The spot in the gorse is certainly overtopped by ground inside the compound but it all looks artificial | Colin Crawford | 29/01/2017 |
Did a cicuit from the new estate. Top is in gorse SW side of enclosure. | chrisbien | 26/03/2016 |
Parked in the new housing scheme and walked via the excellent community woodland paths to the bedrock top some 30meters NE of the electric fence. | Play2End | 30/12/2014 |
Parked in cemy car park and walked up road and along track. Could've driven along very pot-holed track to summit 'car-park'. Extremely well defended summit; 8 ft high metal pallisade fence surrounding an 11 ft high electric fence. A thrash through the tall (but dead vegetation on my visit) around the perimeter is the best that's going to be achieved here. Unless the gate is open for work in progress when you visit. | Minto | 29/03/2014 |
Crumblie2 | 08/01/2024 | |
Lynnebe | 05/03/2023 | |
AFD90 | 15/01/2023 | |
Dibs | 30/01/2021 | |
The Fife Flyer | 30/01/2021 | |
Rod M | 24/01/2021 | |
sair feet | 22/01/2021 | |
Tricky | 25/11/2020 | |
hillhunter | 21/07/2020 | |
Valeriemac8 | 14/03/2020 | |
tsmart | 14/03/2020 | |
samblackburn | 20/10/2019 | |
stevent0809 | 19/06/2019 | |
Pete R | 20/01/2018 | |
richtea5040 | 06/02/2015 | |
Adrian | 23/05/2012 |