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| Name: | Birkhill |
| Hill number: | 13371 |
| Height: | 280.4m / 920ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 1680 Nutberry Hill |
| RHB Section: | 27A: Ayr to the River Clyde |
| County/UA: | South Lanarkshire |
| Catchment: | Clyde |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
| Grid ref: | NS 85434 38938 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: pasture |
| Drop: | 34.2m |
| Col: | 246.2m NS 8490 3821  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 71 72 (1:25k) 335 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 20 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From 90deg bend in road due N. Soggy sheep pastures. | jonglew | 01/03/2024 |
| Over grassy fields to bag this hill | Andrew Simmons | 12/02/2023 |
| Layby about 200m shy of Brae gives quick access to first gate on way to top. | lordtonult | 13/08/2022 |
| Parked at right-angled bend to north. Gates and stile to summit. | vuirich | 09/04/2021 |
| From gate on track to NE. Friendly bullocks on the summit. On to Broken Cross Muir. | sclater | 01/08/2020 |
| Parked to N of bend as RHW had bagged the better parking to S. Gates and stiles to the summit, much better option than climbing barbed wire fences as the blood on RHW's had will testify. | Minto | 01/12/2019 |
| From NNW, road bend, as per mancuso. Tinto from summit and Minto on way down! Then to Broken Cross to celebrate TD's South Lanarks completion. | RHW | 01/12/2019 |
| Parked at 90 degree bend to N.E. Up track, through gates and over fences to Top. Last Hill of the day after Dillar, Bog and Black Hills. With the F.C. | The Captain | 21/03/2019 |
| From Kilnhill. | summitter | 04/11/2018 |
| Park on verge slightly NE of Birkhill farm then very quick dash to avoid antagonising farmer. | Thearlaichdubh | 11/09/2018 |
| From Hawksland, drove up track across road from Kilnhill farm. Parked at base of hill .Short ascent through grass field to summit. | Steve511 | 30/06/2017 |
| From right-angled bend to NE. Gates and a stile, easy. | agentmancuso | 27/11/2016 |
| from gate to the north. | robertphillips | 12/01/2015 |
| P opposite Kilnhill. Along track then up side of wall/fence to top. | chrisbien | 30/06/2013 |
| Had a look up here while training for the 1993 London Marathon. Came in from the north through 2 fields. It was on my 7 and 10 mile loop runs. | Dugswell2 | 01/02/1993 |
| stevent0809 | 13/04/2022 | |
| cmac | 06/03/2022 | |
| chalky1953 | 26/11/2019 | |
| Adrian | 06/06/2018 | |
| Colin Crawford | 10/01/2015 |