| Name: | Gallow Hill |
| Hill number: | 14196 |
| Height: | 242m / 794ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 1802 Blackhope Scar |
| RHB Section: | 28A: Firth of Forth to the River Tweed |
| Donald area: | Moorfoot Hills |
| County/UA: | Midlothian |
| Catchment: | Esk (Musselburgh), Catchment Boundaries, Tyne (Dunbar) |
| Watershed: | Firth of Forth |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
| Grid ref: | NT 36087 61348 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: grass |
| Drop: | 32m |
| Col: | 210m NT353616  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 66 (1:25k) 345W |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 30 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| As others, parked across the road from the ruins of Mount Cottage. Direct line from there. | jonglew | 18/03/2024 |
| From 237m spot height as Grumpy. A farm tip at summit | cjo | 02/03/2024 |
| parked by ruined cottage and over gate to gate in adjoining field which was open, along edge of field to wooden bit of fence and on to the rocks at high point | grumpy | 23/02/2023 |
| From parking space | curlebd | 02/06/2022 |
| As others from ruined cottage, field edge and into next field and HP, back along other side of field. | PeterD | 15/05/2022 |
| From layby/passing place opposite the ruined cottage. Over the field then fence to the flat section in field to the north. Piles of stones seemed to be the new high point. | JAdair97 | 09/03/2022 |
| No gallows, but a load of dumped rocks. | summitter | 25/02/2022 |
| Walked over from Mossend, short loop around the field edges | Paul Digard | 30/01/2022 |
| From the SW. | Andrew Simmons | 14/08/2021 |
| No 29 Bus to Gorebridge, then up B6372, along to col of minor road and 150m through arable crops. Nice crisp winter day. On to Camp Wood Hill. | Thearlaichdubh | 28/11/2017 |
| parked to the west, over a couple of fences to the top in long grass. | robertphillips | 29/01/2017 |
| Parked by ruined Mount Cottage. Field edges to flat rough grass summit. Wooden fence sections in corners of fields make crossing fences easier. | Minto | 07/01/2017 |
| From sse as others. Rough grassy summit between pasture fields | RHW | 10/12/2016 |
| From the SW, from the ruined cottage, around fields to the long grass. | Topographer57 | 20/11/2016 |
| From the west - still stubble here. Summit is under long grass. | fasgadh | 19/11/2015 |
| Long grass now short. Very easy | Colin Crawford | 24/02/2015 |
| P at little S of ruined Mount Cottage. The top is very flat and covered in long grass. | chrisbien | 31/08/2014 |
| stevent0809 | 04/03/2024 | |
| Martin R | 24/07/2023 | |
| Matt | 25/09/2022 | |
| mae | 08/03/2022 | |
| Babybagger | 07/01/2022 | |
| Pete R | 24/12/2019 | |
| rawkmonster | 01/03/2019 | |
| Adrian | 19/01/2019 | |
| silverhow | 11/09/2016 | |
| iaindbrown | 29/01/2016 | |
| benarmine | 10/09/2015 | |
| PM | 15/03/2015 | |
| Biggerbagger | 01/01/1970 |