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| Name: | Barstobrick Hill |
| Hill number: | 13581 |
| Height: | 163m / 535ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 1729 Bengray |
| RHB Section: | 27B: Carrick and Galloway |
| County/UA: | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Catchment: | Dee (Kirkcudbright) |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m), Yeaman (Tu,1,Y) |
| Grid ref: | NX 68751 60664 |
| Summit feature: | outcrop |
| Drop: | 88m |
| Col: | 75m NX696617  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 83 84 (1:25k) 312 |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 22 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Easy along track from visitor centre, other than hot 6 even at 6pm. | agentmancuso | 25/05/2023 |
| Easy up the path from the visitor centre | Wayne Mac | 15/01/2023 |
| Impressive 10 m high tapered stone memorial to Nielsen, who patented the hot air blast method for iron smelting , which significantly improved efficiency. Short walk all from free riding centre carpark. | Denise | 19/04/2022 |
| From SSW. Drove road from visitor centre, becomes roughish, thru a gate, realised it's wrong road, found parking NW of summit (SW immediately after gate, NX683603 would be better) then 10mins to top, rough underfoot, not particularly recommended! | RHW | 13/03/2022 |
| Parked at riding school visitor centre. Excellent paths up to Obelisk and round making an easy 2 hour loop. Farm tracks, footpaths and a few short sections on quiet road. Exceptionally well fenced-off from livestock and all gates etc good for dogs, but the routes are used by the riding school so during day dog would have had to have been on a lead. | catlovesmaps | 03/08/2021 |
| Drove through the visitors' centre to park at NX 6858 6008. Track from there, goes through cattle country so expect some mashed up ground. | jonglew | 07/02/2021 |
| From the track at the visitor centre CP | robertphillips | 19/11/2020 |
| From visitor centre car park up good track to Neilson monument with A&C. | PeterD | 03/09/2020 |
| Climbed after a visit to the Visitor Centre on the way back from Bargrennan. Picked up geocache. | jigglybones | 28/04/2019 |
| Hunting for and finding OS surface block with quarter inch rod just south of the monument. Very rainy day so no views | BigJ | 09/11/2018 |
| 7th hill of 9 on a route from a minor lane near the Cree Bridge to the Bridge of Dee climbing Drumglass Hill, Ullioch hill, Meikle & Little Dornell, Rough Hill and Bargatton hill, descending to a track and where it terminated i continued through the larch forest following the course of a former but now re-planted track before veering off to climb direct to the summit, an angled section of outcrop past the monument. Descent to Barstobrick then lane heading for Crumquhill... | Dazingdale | 20/10/2018 |
| Easy walk from Visitor Centre. I was encouraged to check out the Wikipedia entry on Neilson and his hot blast | Colin Crawford | 31/08/2018 |
| £1 to park at visitor centre then track to the top. | chrisbien | 10/05/2017 |
| Obelisk inscribed James Beaumont Neilson Hot Blast 1828. Non HuMP Yeaman. | chalky1953 | 21/09/2015 |
| Unsure of date but sometime between 2010 & 2014 | Longwojo | 01/07/2012 |
| Approx date. Neilson's Hot Blast. | Nick Canute | 01/05/2012 |
| Walked up by the tourist route from the A762 but there is a carpark nearer the hill for £1. | 3 kinnears | 07/11/2010 |
| RichardM | 19/04/2022 | |
| Adrian | 23/10/2020 | |
| tomandivy | 21/10/2017 | |
| borderterrier | 02/10/2011 | |
| Sherlock | 27/02/2011 |