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Name: | Howden Hill |
Hill number: | 14221 |
Height: | 227m / 745ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1932 Cacra Hill |
RHB Section: | 28B: The River Tweed to the English Border |
County/UA: | Scottish Borders |
Catchment: | Tweed |
Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
Grid ref: | NT 45902 27275 |
Summit feature: | no feature |
Drop: | 43m |
Col: | 184m NT462271 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 73 (1:25k) 338 |
Survey: | Abney level |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 14 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
From the minor road. | robertphillips | 18/02/2024 |
Bike from Selkirk through Haining Estate and along Border Abbeys Way. Route to a good farm track signposted as Howden. Easy walk up from the road. On to Whitmuir | fasgadh | 23/08/2023 |
Roadside verge parking by the ford (NT 4525 2713). Took the concrete farm road leading off SE to its bend then headed for the top. Took a direct line down across sheep pastures through 2 field gates. | jonglew | 28/01/2022 |
Parked NT 4601 2782 (N side). Used forest path but did not find the promised stile into summit field. Returned direct to gate at NT 4589 2772 | carole engel | 29/09/2021 |
Parked NT 45902 27275 Along the road SSW 50m steeply up short cropped grass field to HP | Andrew Simmons | 04/03/2021 |
From N. Most trees felled but still a path along forest edge to top fence. | chrisbien | 08/08/2020 |
weaselmaster | 25/03/2020 | |
Sick Kid | 25/03/2020 | |
sam.g.guthrie | 20/01/2019 | |
Parked by forest gate. | Adrian | 05/11/2018 |
Parking: Grass verge to the South NT45926 26515. Route: As Minto | David Evans | 23/02/2018 |
silverhow | 18/02/2017 | |
Parked by road to north and went up on forest paths. Stile over fence into summit field | Colin Crawford | 29/03/2015 |
Easy walking along farm tracks from just west of Brownmoor to the S of the hill. Looks just as easy to start from Howden to the W. | Minto | 04/01/2014 |