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Name: | Windyheads Hill |
Hill number: | 1526 |
Height: | 231m / 758ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1525 Waughton Hill |
RHB Section: | 21B: Fraserburgh to the Dee Valley |
County/UA: | Aberdeenshire |
Catchment: | Minor Rivers only (North) |
Watershed: | Mull of Kintyre to Rattray Head |
Class: | Hump, Tump (200-299m), Submarilyn, Yeaman (Hu,Tu,2,sMa,Y) |
Grid ref: | NJ 85319 61929 |
Summit feature: | trig point |
Drop: | 143m |
Col: | 88m NJ944579 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 30 (1:25k) 426N |
Observations: | flat summit area |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 72 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Easy finish to a long day 8/8 HuMP. From track to masts. Trig is buried in the gorse, access best on the left hand side as you leave the MOD beacon. | N.Morters | 09/03/2024 |
The Trig plays hide-n-seek in the encroaching gorse, but we eventually found it, trod down nearby gorse to see if any higher ground, then returned to the van in the entrance parking area to the SW. | summitter | 01/10/2023 |
From track entrance @ NJ 8514 6167. Found the TP and which is gradually becoming submerged in vegetation 
and also visited a bump on the other side of the thicket that may well be a little higher. | summitsup | 26/04/2023 |
Visited trick and walked around the large patch of whin. You'd need a machete to get in there. | sclater | 04/01/2023 |
Walked from gate at entrance to access road to trig pillar with Kyle (age 4) | 187lenny | 30/10/2022 |
quick bag from road, gorse encroaching | BLACKHILL | 28/10/2022 |
Easy walk up track to Windyhead Comms station (NATS) then short heathland thrash to gorsey trig. HP probably mound on other side of gorse and willow. | Denise | 21/09/2022 |
Short walk from start of gated track. Heather moorland with thickets of gorse and willow. Trig easy to spot and reach on W side of island of gorse and willow. I felt the vegetated mound on E side of the thicket could be the high point but didn’t really venture far into the thicket. | RichardM | 21/09/2022 |
Parked at the start of the track and easy walk from there. Trig partly hidden by gorse. | govanah | 20/09/2022 |
Easy to trig. If high point is a bit to the Northv it's in gorse. | NormanW | 22/04/2022 |
As per LizH. The highest point may be a short distance from the trig. | willyross | 04/09/2020 |
Geocaching | Pilotralph | 15/06/2020 |
Parked at the track end SW of the summit. Short walk along and left to the little MOD building, then left opposite the building and around the outside of the gorse to the trig point. | LizH | 20/01/2020 |
Trig clear of gorse. Keep left of gorse patch at structure for heathery ground to trig | carole engel | 19/11/2019 |
From NJ 8514 6167. | jonglew | 26/10/2019 |
Very short outing from high point of road. | David Purchase | 11/06/2019 |
Trig just emerging from the jungle. Go round left from the track end. | IainT | 11/07/2018 |
visited while trig bagging | Nozzer | 02/09/2017 |
From the 270 bus dropped at the New Pitligo road junction. With nordicstar on this one, uninspiring comms furniture yet you need to thrash about in thorns and gorse around the trig. Oh, to be on a mountain somewhere. | Eddie | 14/03/2017 |
nearby track from road to the west... walk along NE and in the track NW to the trig pillar which is a bout 120 metres past the little building | vegibagger | 20/04/2016 |
Walked around the gorse. | jimbloomer | 17/04/2016 |
Tsk, Nordicstar you will be Humping sometime soon | Martin R | 25/03/2016 |
Trig hiding in the gorse. | jenx | 20/01/2016 |
With Jenx after a trip to Pennen, home of film Local Hero. Parked just off road before the gate and walked the track to summit/trig. Not very inspiring but these Hump things rarely are... | nordicstar | 20/01/2016 |
Here for the trigpoint. TP:UK log: 
 
Getting dark but easy access via tarmaced track to within 80m of trig, then some gorse and heather to negotiated but nothing too bad. | thejackrustles | 24/12/2015 |
Was actually getting the trig. Eventually found it surrounded by whin. It was a big mistake wearing my sandals! Ouch. | BigJ | 30/07/2014 |
short stroll from access road to SW. Trig point well camouflaged by gorse. | Thearlaichdubh | 04/05/2014 |
easy to park at the beginning of a tarmac road, short walk to the trig. | tallblond | 16/02/2014 |
Parked on access road. The track stops short of the trig. The 235m contour seems to be imaginary. Although it is possible that there is higher ground in the gorse and bushes it is marginal. | chrisbien | 06/06/2011 |
Revisit. Heather & gorse summit | RHW | 08/04/2007 |
RHW | 27/08/2001 | |
Halfdecent | 25/05/2023 | |
Andy West | 06/08/2022 | |
pattoland | 10/07/2022 | |
Fletch | 24/08/2021 | |
interloper | 24/08/2021 | |
AndyS | 14/07/2021 | |
stevedixon | 25/01/2021 | |
Tom Mundell | 07/11/2020 | |
Trekking toes | 07/11/2020 | |
lindaross | 04/09/2020 | |
dave g | 31/05/2020 | |
fionnag | 31/05/2020 | |
PeterAH | 20/01/2020 | |
hill walker | 29/12/2019 | |
Janet M | 27/07/2019 | |
Lindsay M | 27/07/2019 | |
Dave McG | 31/03/2019 | |
Gonk | 12/03/2019 | |
bjewing | 04/01/2019 |