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Name:Craigie Hill
Hill number:14299
Height:108m / 354ft
Parent (Ma):1827  Cairnpapple Hill
RHB Section:28A: Firth of Forth to the River Tweed
County/UA:Edinburgh
Catchment:Forth
Class:Tump (100-199m)
(Tu,1)
Grid ref:NT 15569 76299
Summit feature:no feature: ground by edge of cliff
Drop:50m
Col:58m  NT134758  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 65
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A helmet and a kevlar jacket for the last 85m, although the gorse is getting leggy and not as impenetrable as younger plants. Zigzag path starts at NT15687 76497 and is less brambly than the path that starts from the nearby RoW sign.Martin R20/07/2023
Solo. (C didn't summit). Quarry warning signs forced an approach from the paths to the East beside West Craigie Farm & Cafe. Strava shows the paths up well. Bit of a battle through gorse to get to the top. Path still there, so worth getting to this one before it becomes impenetrable (or is quarried away).MickyRoss07/05/2023
Mons Hill, New England, Mansion Hill, Craigie Hill & Dalmeny Oil Depot Bus Stop. From South Queensferry Bridges carpark. From Mansion Hill W & S to Barnbougle Gate, up Rd & tracks behind Dolphinton House to quarry no entry sign. Followed a prickly gorse path/gap E to airy summit on quarry edge with great views & a fox on a boulder further round the ridge. Plastic chair & plastic bottle nearby. Down through same gorse path. Couldn't use field edge as digger & driver were there.Lynnebe05/05/2023
Six Tump walk from Turnhouse to Dalmeny. Along field edges from Grotto Bridge to ruin and up to top eventually finding ridge path through gorse. Down to signpost and on to oil depot.lordtonult31/01/2023
From the ruined cottage. Up to the quarry then found a path up to the topAndrew Simmons05/06/2022
From the ruined cottage where I parked along the quarry track to the northwest corner and climbed the rockface up to the path. Through the gorse bush to a rock sitting atop the quarry. Back through the gorse and then a pleasant walk through shrubbery back to the cottage.JAdair9719/05/2022
Up path from farm to boulders and fence, though gorse to top at edge of quarry.PeterD16/05/2022
Revisit. Up from Craigie farm and back down the ridge to signpost. Grubbed around in the various gorse bushes.Thearlaichdubh12/03/2021
JEB HFB26/02/2021
JEB HFB23/12/2020
Towards the end of a bike loop out of Queensferry to Philpstoun and Winchburgh, Bings dutifully ignored. Surprised by this one: it was busy, and while I walked the bike up the zigzags I was treated to a fine singletrack run northwards along the ridge. There is still a path of sorts through the winds to the edgfasgadh10/08/2020
Query sent to the President of Edinburgh Geological Society as I don't think their online write up is correct (?) in describing 'sharp craggy slopes in the west where the glaciers originated and the gentle easterly slopes made up of glacial boulders and clay'. (To my mind its a N-S ridge with equally steep sides). Also their promise of an implied easy walk to the quarry edge to see wonderful glacier scraped rocks is far from the reality of keep out signs and 80m of head high dense gorse. Have they got muddled up with Carleton Hill perhaps which fits that description? They are probably right that Craigie Hill is formed by hard, crystalline igneous rock where magma intruded underground and slowly cooled, forming large identifiable crystals. Will see what reply I receive from this august and venerable body? That aside -The top of the tallest boulder dumped by the keep out sign on summit ridge will probably be there until the next glacier shifts it -could become the new high point.Chris Pearson15/07/2020
As per Topographer57curlebd14/03/2020
Straight up the footpath from the farm buildings to the north east.summitter03/01/2020
JEB HFB07/12/2019
From path starting opposite north end of farm. Up onto ridge then turn left up to fence bearing stay away notices. Crossed them for an 80m gorse fight to current HP, but if you reached the HP coordinates on this site then I am surprised you survived to write your log.Topographer5715/10/2019
First of 10 TUMPS done today with Brian R. Very quick and easy up the path from the farm. No view.Play2End17/03/2019
From Dalmeny Station via 3 tumps in Dalmeny Park. Marked FP from road bend E of Dolphinton House takes almost the whole way. Continued over fort then field edges for c.1k to old railway cyclepath back to Dalmeny.agentmancuso09/01/2019
From opposite farm entrance (NT 1569 7649). Path zig-zags up through woodland to a fence, hop over and continue on through gorse for another 80m or so to quarry edge.jonglew12/10/2018
Dalmeny-Dundas Hill-Humbie Farm trig-Craigie Hill-Mansion Hill-New England-Mons Hill-Dalmeny. Better approached from north of summit than from south.campagvelocet24/09/2018
JEB, ERB HFB17/02/2018
Have to push south on the ridge round and past the 'Danger no entry' signs (which they really ought to remove and let people use their own judgement about proximity to the quarry edge) there is a path through close gorse which isn't too spiky to gently push past. The years is getting an open view out of the yes of the two road bridges NW and south, across the quarry to the Pentlands. Well worth the slight difficulties and one isn't at the summit of one doesn't do it.vegibagger01/09/2017
parked ruined cottage from SE.robertphillips24/02/2017
After Mansion Hill - out to B924 over A90 and up minor rd to Craigie Farm. There is a path opposite the entrance which takes you to the top in 5 minutes. No View. Then back to Dalmeny StationThearlaichdubh28/11/2016
From sw via hillfort, then in quarry keep L for good path around rim to fragile looking summit outcrop. (My GPS reckons hillfort itself nowhere near P30).RHW09/05/2015
There are a few No Entry signs in places within the wood, but they seem to be because of quarry safety rather than because anyone doesn't want us there. The highest point appears to be on the very edge of the quarry, on a rock with a big hairline crack across it. I decided not to follow my usual practice of touching the highest point: it could have been too interesting...Pete R01/05/2015
Parked to the SW then bagged the hill fort then walked down through the quarry to pick up a path to the west and walked around quarry edge to the summit.Dugswell215/02/2015
Quiet haven of semi-wildness near airport, path from south then lots of options through old quarry.alda22/12/2014
Did both tops. Views of airport and Forth Railway bridge.Adrian29/11/2014
Parking for several cars to SW of hill. Path over stile leads to woods. A path to right climbs steeply through beech trees to summit of fort. Or a level path along field edge (to Dalmeny) gives easier access to main summit at N end of Quarry. The S top (fort) might even be a candidate for a separate Tump in it's own right.Minto18/11/2014
P at ruined cottage SE of hill. Bad ascent but at top paths back to S through quarry with Tom.chrisbien01/02/2014
JEB, RIB HFB15/04/2013
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