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Name: | South Head Hill |
Hill number: | 13948 |
Height: | 378m / 1240ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1821 White Meldon |
RHB Section: | 28A: Firth of Forth to the River Tweed |
County/UA: | Scottish Borders |
Catchment: | Tweed |
Class: | Tump (300-399m) (Tu,3) |
Grid ref: | NT 21914 41714 |
Summit feature: | ground 2m E of cairn |
Drop: | 37m |
Col: | 341m NT220423 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 73 (1:25k) 337 |
Survey: | obvious summit |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way. Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land(*).
*For information about access rights in Scotland see the ScotWays website.
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 48 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
After White Meldon | Hirta | 22/09/2023 |
4/4 Black Meldon from the Toilet Block, back down and then White Meldon, Hamilton Hill and South Head Hill as a nice circuit on other side of the road. A pretty Glen lots of campers and a lot of rubbish unfortunately people not bothering to tidy up. | nickywood1 | 04/09/2023 |
A round trip from the old public toilets west of White Meldon to South Hill Head and over to Black Meldon and its SW top. Easy walking. | sclater | 16/03/2023 |
From Meldon Road/A73 junction. Track to Meldons car park, up the hill, return via Edston Wood. | callumorr | 05/02/2023 |
From Peebles in snow and sunshine. Descent to Lyme and bus back | fasgadh | 16/01/2023 |
From the old toilet block (NT 2124 4285). Up and over White Meldon first, then Hamilton Hill via Upper Kidston farm. Pleasant walk across to here, then a direct line over a lot of heather and dying bracken back to car for a modest 6.3k round. | jonglew | 10/12/2022 |
Took the track to Jedderfield which continues on and brings you out at the mast. Straight across from there. | Andrew Simmons | 29/06/2021 |
From car park at NT 21251 42827. Up White Meldon. Then across to South Hill Head and Hamilton Hill. North up the Cross Borders Drove Road to the road then back along road/forest track with an ascent of Black Meldon to round off the day. | Fife Walking | 16/05/2021 |
From White Meldon. On to Hamilton Hill. | Wycombe Wanderer | 18/07/2020 |
south head hill and hamilton hill from the west parked near footbridge. | robertphillips | 08/02/2020 |
Solo. Parked at NT210416. Circuit of South Hill Head (the name used on OS maps), White Meldon and Black Meldon.A beautiful sunny day with a light breeze. | pwbellarby | 08/09/2019 |
Small cairn in heather, after Hamilton Hill, Breezy, sunny, pleasant views. | Denise | 08/07/2019 |
From WNW, footbridge, path and trods to heathery summit, HP boulder | RHW | 07/07/2019 |
From the parking/picnic area to the west. Had to improvise with a path. Didn’t bump into Rob. | Campbell Singer | 07/07/2019 |
2nd of anti clockwise circuit of three | vegibagger | 07/07/2019 |
On way to black and white meldon | cjo | 05/07/2019 |
Followed sheep trods from the glen | hillsman | 25/03/2019 |
Crossed over from Hamilton Hill and descended paths to SE via golf course to Peebles and bus back to Edinburgh. Sunny day | Thearlaichdubh | 08/07/2018 |
DS | john steel | 20/08/2017 |
From the minor road to W. Over SHH and onto HH and back. Below zero with a strong cold wind. | chrisbien | 26/01/2017 |
From Rosetta camp site. This looks like South Hill Head on 1:50,000 map. | ngthack | 11/09/2015 |
With the Meldons from S carpark | jimbloomer | 11/02/2015 |
Run from Peebles (D&P wedding) | richardsun | 30/11/2013 |
Came up from the Meldons Road over South Hill Head to Edston Hill trig. Back via Hamilton Hill & White Meldon. | agentmancuso | 24/09/2012 |
From Peebles via golf course. Tough fences and walls on final ascent | ridgewalker23 | 07/04/2000 |
colazione | 09/01/2023 | |
dexly | 12/10/2022 | |
Matt | 01/03/2022 | |
Ben Rinnes | 19/08/2021 | |
RobB | 10/08/2021 | |
PeteF | 23/05/2021 | |
Adrian | 02/10/2020 | |
Bag For Life | 18/07/2020 | |
Alex C | 02/08/2019 | |
RichardM | 08/07/2019 | |
Moore100 | 24/07/2017 | |
sam.g.guthrie | 05/09/2016 | |
tomandivy | 14/08/2016 | |
Colin Crawford | 20/04/2015 | |
silverhow | 22/11/2014 | |
amcvey | 05/06/2014 | |
Pete R | 28/10/2013 | |
benarmine | 24/04/2011 | |
ARM | 07/07/2010 | |
Rowan | 07/01/2001 | |
Laurel | 07/01/2001 | |
kenmorti | 01/07/1998 | |
amcvey | blank |