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Name: | Pinnel Hill |
Hill number: | 13081 |
Height: | 82m / 269ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1669 Dumglow |
RHB Section: | 26A: Central Scotland from Dumbarton to Montrose |
County/UA: | Fife |
Catchment: | Forth |
Class: | Tump (0-99m) (Tu,0) |
Grid ref: | NT 16397 84941 |
Summit feature: | cairn |
Drop: | 44m |
Col: | 38m NT160849 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 65 66 (1:25k) 350 367E |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 34 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
From the church, back to main road and west along narrow pavement with dangerous hawthorn and bramble encroachment. Under the railway then over an awkward overhang gate. Through barbed fence, then summit ruin is almost a scramble. | Topographer57 | 31/12/2023 |
Weather fair. | MountainMac | 14/10/2023 |
If you park at Church and head back to busy main road you should turn left for the underpass. There is a bit of a pavement. | Crumblie2 | 19/11/2022 |
As others parked at the church. Walked along the road - railway underpass and up the field. | Andrew Simmons | 15/10/2022 |
Parked in the street leading to the church. Walked back along the road to the railway underpass at West Lodge. Up to the mast then a tricky fence crossing with several strands of barbed wire, but found a bit where they were knotted together. | NormanW | 20/12/2021 |
Train to Cowdenbeath, then walk to Pilkam Hills, then Cullaloe Hills and on to Dalgety Bay station via Pinnel Hill. | BasherBob | 28/04/2021 |
Local tump which I ignored until now. From South Lodge through field. Fence at top a bit awkward but do-able. Parked at church along the road though could have walked it. | Fife Walking | 07/01/2021 |
Parked along the Eastern Access Road, besides the SUDS pond. A path alongside the A921 can be followed to the underpass. Turn immediately right once through, over a semi-collapsed gate then up the grassy field to a fence/wall at the top. Hop over and there is an interesting ruin on the summit. | summitter | 19/06/2020 |
As per fasgadh | curlebd | 08/03/2020 |
Parked near the kirk which avoided any unpleasantness re new no parking signs at the railway bridge. Road dodgy in places but that was the only unpleasantness. The big fence has weaknesses, could squeeze through E of the mast and near the locked gate in the field corner. Summit seems marked by a ruined tower . | fasgadh | 15/12/2019 |
Through the tunnel under the Risley from the south and angled NE up the field. When almost back on my car farmer in digger on the road stopped me and said he'd been on way to find what I was doing as he was concerned that there was a bull in the field. I never saw any cows or bull at all..! | vegibagger | 11/12/2018 |
Train to Dalgety Bay, walked along A road - to underpass (West Lodge) then up and wandered around wood looking for higher points than base of cairn. Found some. On to Letham Hill | Thearlaichdubh | 19/11/2017 |
parked at underpass over gate then through fence near mast. | robertphillips | 24/02/2017 |
From rly underbridge ssw as per Minto parking by his balancing pond. Top fence easily crossed at several spots without climbing. 25k contouring misses the summit which is 2-3m higher than 82m spot location to base of ruin. | RHW | 29/01/2017 |
From the underpass and up track to the mast. A bit of a balancing act to scale fence into woods. Exceedingly muddy today at the start of the route | Colin Crawford | 29/01/2017 |
Parked to SE on Eastern Access Rd (beside gate to pond with track aorunf it). Under railway, and over gate on R into field. Up edge of field to radio mast. Climbed 2m barbed wire fence on sturdy corner post. (Probably possible to squeeze between the strands with care). Summit is IN the trees (not the field as spot height of 82m would suggest), at the ruined building marked on the 1:25K map. Maybe this hill is higher than 82m? Or maybe the spot height isn't intended to mark the summit. | Minto | 31/08/2015 |
The track into the wood beside South Lodge farm is almost fenced off, with a small gap. Alternatively the underpass at NT163846 leads to a little gate with a Strictly Private sign- sorry, didn't see it until I was leaving- and then there's a choice between a direct steep ascent, or there's a path up from NT159847. Personally I wouldn't recommend the short route through the field to the radio mast because there's a high barbed wire fence beyond the mast. Good views across to Edinburgh. | Pete R | 29/05/2015 |
Access from field next to the railway underpass. Ruined pile of stones on summit. | Play2End | 23/03/2015 |
P at E end of South Lodge Farm track. Steeper than it looks on the map | chrisbien | 03/08/2013 |
ruined building at summit | Adrian | 01/01/2000 |
Martin R | 25/07/2023 | |
AFD90 | 25/01/2023 | |
sair feet | 08/01/2023 | |
Babybagger | 20/12/2021 | |
Dibs | 12/02/2021 | |
The Fife Flyer | 12/02/2021 | |
Biggerbagger | 12/02/2021 | |
Tricky | 25/11/2020 | |
stevent0809 | 17/06/2019 | |
Lindsay M | 22/09/2018 | |
chalky1953 | 18/12/2014 | |
ajwxyzt | 04/02/2012 | |
IainK | blank | |
Belfarm | blank |