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| Name: | Common Hill |
| Hill number: | 1682 |
| Height: | 488m / 1601ft |
| RHB Section: | 27A: Ayr to the River Clyde |
| County/UA: | South Lanarkshire |
| Catchment: | Clyde |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Tump (400-499m), Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,4,Y) |
| Grid ref: | NS 79192 30780 |
| Summit feature: | no feature |
| Drop: | 172m |
| Col: | 316m NS776317  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 71 (1:25k) 335 |
| Observations: | summit is 60m W of trig point |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 218 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Up edge of forestry and tussocky grass to avoid construction machinery | PeteF | 18/03/2024 |
| From Douglas West | hummusg | 01/10/2023 |
| Up and down windfarm track. A bit of work underway just now, looks like the triffids are actually being dismantled and removed. | colazione | 15/08/2023 |
| Parked in the small space opposite Monksfoot, walked east along the A70 to the gate beyond the Podowrin Burn bridge, took the zigzag track up Longhouse Hill, going through a gate and over a bwf to the summit. Down to the burn, crossing at a convenient stone, and up the WF track to Arrarat Hill's summit. Then north on the track and east across the top of the Podowrin Burn to more WF tracks and Common Hill's summit trig and summit. Back west, over the burn again and along more WEF tracks to the control centre and the track running south up Hareshaw Hill. I followed the wall from the next turbine down to the track by Monks Water. Aquatic and tussocky away from the tracks. | Nick Down1 | 31/12/2022 |
| Very close to a wind farm track, so easy to access. | Tisteln | 08/11/2022 |
| Straight up and down the wind farm track from Douglas West. | Owen B | 25/09/2022 |
| Parked near the entrance to Hagshaw windfarm. Really wanted to do Nutberry first but road closed due to major construction. So did Common hill hoping to find a backdoor entrance down, but with a pair of binos I saw large cranes on Nutberry. and decided to abandon that for next year. Common Hill easy, you can actually see the trig point from a distance if you look hard. Top is right next to a wind turbine. | Jhimmy | 17/09/2022 |
| Easy parking opposite (former?) Outdoor Centre in Douglas West - Up wind farm tracks to summit on W. side of track & then a short walk across to trig point on E. side. | gerrybowes | 10/08/2022 |
| 1 of 2: From Douglas West. With Karen. | ChrisR | 30/04/2022 |
| From Douglas West. Busy wind farm road. Friendly foreman wanted to know where I was going before happily allowing me through the gate. Other vehicles stopped me later to check I had spoken with him for permission to be there. Easy walk up and back. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 01/03/2022 |
| Clockwise circuit over Common hill with this tump plus another on return half of the circle. Zzz | vegibagger | 24/10/2021 |
| Busy windfarm easy ascent to trig | Glenford | 09/10/2021 |
| Evening bag. Parked near the Outdoor Centre and followed the wind farm track to the top and back. | Clach Liath | 19/09/2020 |
| From Douglas West (near Outdoor Centre) wind farm tracks to trig and higher point indicated by Hill Bagging grid reference. Was second attempt at this summit having been turned back last year by workers being evacuated because of lightning. Worth bearing in mind to avoid in such conditions. | Neil Midgley | 10/09/2020 |
| 3rd of 3 today. Up from small car park at West Douglas. Road all way to summit then over to trig.Dont cut corner as I did, keep to road. Good views of my first Marilyn, Tinto, 65 years ago. 100 mins | Coinneach | 29/08/2020 |
| Straight forward 5.3 miles hike up and down wind farm service road from West Douglas. Turn off for summit on access road to turbines 8 & 9, 18 - 21. Went to trig first then noticed higher ground other side of road to the west. Seemed possible this is higher as a result of earth being moved for turbine so returned to road by walking over ground slightly further west. Well and truly bagged. | mntainman | 01/08/2020 |
| Up from West Douglas on windfarm track. Ice chunks flew off one of the turbines around us. Sign near start did warn us! | willyross | 27/01/2020 |
| A sneaky little bag as soon as the torrential rain stopped and before the next batch started. From Douglas West Outdoor Centre, a very easy walk up the wind farm road. | Gill | 26/01/2020 |
| With Bob on a beautiful sunny morning. | Play2End | 01/12/2019 |
| Longhouse Hill, Common Hill, Arrarat Hill & Hareshaw Hill from Monksfoot, using mainly turbine tracks with an occasional stretch of cross-country. 3.5 hours in total. | summitter | 12/07/2019 |
| Parked at 82074 31016 and followed the tracks up. 1h 24m - 5.04 miles. | clivevilla | 28/05/2019 |
| Followed the wind farm track from the entrance. | DrumalbinView | 07/01/2019 |
| Easy walk up wind turbine track. | cjo | 11/08/2018 |
| On way back from work, parked at West Douglas and followed tracks bar a short direct to trig before summit. Gates were open. | SS | 28/06/2018 |
| Wind farm track from West Douglas. With nephew Andrew Purkiss. | jonglew | 30/04/2018 |
| Parked before the gate just beyond the Outdoor centre. The access is easy along the windfarm road and takes 1.75 hour return. Great views are blighted by the turbines. With JT. | bolton | 16/11/2017 |
| With bolton. | Wycombe Wanderer | 16/11/2017 |
| Easily up the wind farm track - plenty of parking at the start. | Chris Peart | 14/11/2017 |
| Wind Farm with trig point accessed from outdoor centre NS821309. Operated ham radio for SOTA on summit. | G4OBK (Phil) | 20/08/2017 |
| From opposite Outdoor Centre at West Douglas. Write up at: http://gayleybird.blogspot.com/2017/04/common-hill-ns792308-488m.html | Gayle | 19/04/2017 |
| Evening walk up the wind farm track near Douglas. | N.Morters | 28/03/2017 |
| A break on the way to Pitlochry, with an easy walk up the wind farm service road | Phreerunner | 29/09/2016 |
| KeithByTheC | 13/08/2016 | |
| With Kate. Followed wind farm track from outdoor centre (10:00). Windy, drizzle. Reached top (11:05) in cloud. Lots of windmills. Finish 12:15 | dbb | 26/05/2016 |
| Nice track to wander up. Parked at the beginning of the windfarm track at NS 82076 31026. No issues. | assynt_bob | 02/04/2016 |
| Followed the wind farm track from the end of Station Road Douglas. Fine views and an easy tick whilst on our way to the Highlands. Called in to St Brides Church in Douglas to see The Good Sir James Douglas' tomb. | mindlessflogger | 28/03/2016 |
| From NS 75442 28931 at Glenbuck off the A70. Over Hareshaw Hill and Nutberry Hill to NS 79057 35576 near Coalburn where I was given a lift. | Alan Moore | 15/01/2016 |
| A quick and easy rehab walk up to the trig point and back. | Chris Mac | 03/01/2016 |
| From West Douglas, with MT and JT. | Sprog | 12/12/2015 |
| Parked at the beginning of the windfarm track at NS 82076 31026 and took the track up over Arkney Hill and Henry's Hill to the summit and the trig point. Returned the same way. Be careful of ice flying off the turbine blades. With AT and JT. | Man of Kernow1 | 12/12/2015 |
| With Jenx, parked above the now abandoned field centre. Took the track all way to the trig by road. Cut directly back north to the road to speed the way back. Wind turbines are pretty unpleasant on the route, many swirling blades overhead along the track make this an endurance epic. Warnings of ice falling off along the route are somewhat disconcerting! | nordicstar | 24/11/2015 |
| From West Douglas road end. Not a great hill. | jenx | 24/11/2015 |
| Boring plod up windfarm road. Shame the gate was locked or else I'd have driven up to the top in 5 mins. | AndrewFinnimore | 13/10/2014 |
| 3rd of today good tracks all the way to summit. | robertphillips | 20/05/2014 |
| Solo ascent from Douglas West. Easy walk along the metalled windfarm road to trig point. Windy, overcast, dry. 1 1/4 hours | alexmaclennan | 05/05/2014 |
| Solo. From end of public road at Douglas West where there used to be a railway. Used windfarm access tracks for most of the way. Summit in the middle of a large windfarm with one turbine very close to summit point. | pwbellarby | 05/06/2013 |
| met alison fox, big horrible windfarm | Thearlaichdubh | 09/02/2013 |
| From Douglas West. The hill is alive, with the sound of ..... | Topographer57 | 26/07/2012 |
| Dreary walk up to windfarm from Douglas West relieved by fine views in the upper parts. | Aye Jimmy | 21/07/2011 |
| Solo | HFB | 22/01/2011 |