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Name:Broad Law
Hill number:1830
Height:840.1m / 2756ft
RHB Section:28B: The River Tweed to the English Border
Donald area:Manor Hills
County/UA:Scottish Borders
County (CoH):Peeblesshire (CoH), Selkirkshire (CoH)
County (CoA):Borders (CoA)
Catchment:Tweed
Class:Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Corbett, Donald,
High Hills of Britain, Historic County Top, Current County/UA Top, Administrative County Top, Yeaman
(Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,C,D,HHB,CoH,CoU,CoA,DN,Y,P600,P500)
Grid ref:NT 14643 23533
Summit feature:trig point
Drop:653.5m
Col:186.6m  NS 5876 1647  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 72
(1:25k) 330 336
Observations:cairn on mound 2m SE may be as high
Survey:Leica RX1250
Comments:Double county top
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Notes:
  • Borders (1974) administrative county top
  • Peeblesshire historic county top
  • Selkirkshire historic county top
  • Scottish Borders current county/UA top

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Talla Cleuch Head, Broad Law, Cramalt Craig and Clockmore from Megget Stonehummusg07/03/2024
55 min ascent fr Megget Stone in cold gale and low cloud, but no rain. 45 min back down to car! Surely the quickest and easiest Corbett!NorfolkPT2115/12/2023
Round from meggetstone, via tall cleugh over, broad cairn, then hunt law, cramalt crag, with finally clochmore. Conditiond deterioted marked from hare law with appaling underfoot and overhead conditions with snow settling and high wind.cjo10/12/2023
From Megget Stone: Talla Cleugh Head, Broad Law, Cramalt Craig, Dollar Law and down to the reservoir by one or two smaller summits. Hitched a lift back saving 3.5 miles.jigglybones11/11/2023
From Talla Cleuch along the sheep trial and then follow the tram tracks to the summit.JAdair9726/06/2023
From the car park north of the Megget Stone at NT 14338 20081. Followed a path up from the Megget Stone to a gate in the deer fence at NT 14423 21439. Then followed deer fence north, with summit accessed by another gate in the deer fence. After return to main ridge, took the path up to the summit of Broad Law. On descent, veered SSE past Porridge Cairn and to the top of Wylies Hill. A steep descent by sheeptracks brought us to the road, then following it west back to the cars. With AT and JT. 13.0km, with 600m of ascent.Man of Kernow124/06/2023
alisaryancomet11/06/2023
From Hearthstane for round of Broad Law, Cramalt Craig, Hunt Law and Birkside Law.rhalstead09/06/2023
3 of 4: From Cramalt Craig. With Karen.ChrisR22/05/2023
Clockmore - Cramalt Craig - Notman Law - Dollar Law - Fifescar Knowe - Hunt Law - Broad Law - Talla Cleuch Head. 19 miles. Cool strong Easterly but fine day otherwiseGary Heath19/04/2023
Broad Law, Dollar Law circuit from Megget Reservoir. Plenty of fresh snow.Geoff Briggs26/03/2023
From the reservoir car park. Up the road to Meggethead, then upon passing the last fence on the N side of the road followed this fence onto the open SE flank of Wylies Hill. From its summit a series of ATV/deer paths give good access to Broad Law. Down to the non-tops of Tods Knowe & Lamb Knowe, then doubled back to the col SE of Polmood Craig to get onto the FP up to Cramalt Craig. The nicest section of the walk was over to Dun Law, Fifescar Knowe & Dollar Law. Returned to Thief's Road, which helps with a quick walk to Notman Law. Then a fence line to Shielhope Head and Greenside Law, including its S Top. A contour round to Rig Head and finally Pykestone Brae. A steep grassy descent to the track below then a seemingly endless walk back along the road to the camper. 6hrs total.summitter05/02/2023
Track from Hearthstanes which I enjoyed trotting up and down 1h47 11.8K Strava tells me. Mostly dry. Mostly views.davechaffey27/11/2022
Backpacking 3rd dayAdventurers514/09/2022
Parked at the first car park (when coming from Talla Reservoir) on the Megget Reservoir and walked back along the road to the Megget Stone, then up the fencline to Fan's Law. Where I met a new 6ft Deer fence, with a pedestrian gate (on the lines shown on OS explorer maps) decent path / sheep trail over to Talla Cleuch Head, through the new 6ft deer fence again to gain the actual summit. Then followed this back to Cairn Law and up to Broad Law itself (still the old 3ft stock fence along the shoulder). Some guys were working in the Radio Beacon, they had previously worked on the Lowther radar station aswell. Along the ridge with a decent drop and ascent to Cramalt Craig. Then southward to Clockmore, with a lot of heather bashing to decent back down to the car. Dry with occasional sun and high level cloud 05:05hrs all in.chillyman831/08/2022
Parked at the cattle grid by the Megget Stone. Talla Cleuch Head (the deer fence is well-gated so it doesn't matter which side of it you're on), back to Cairn Law, Broad Law, Hunt Law, back to Cramalt Craig and finally Clockmore. Steep descent to the road and a lovely walk back to the car in the evening sun.tsharp04/08/2022
Early start and a beautiful day, fairly steady up and down 7km in less than 2 hrsNicky C27/07/2022
With E. From Hearthstanes following track above Hearthstane Burn, through forest with extensive felling in progress, then across open moorland. Track in good condition but climb is relentless! Glad when the top of one of the comms towers came into view. Summit trig point is on far side of Radio Beacon Station. Dry day but a biting cold wind meant we didn't linger after taking in the extensive views. 2 hours to summit, 1.5 return, 11kms.Beeliner30/04/2022
Up by Porridge Cairn from Wylies Hill. Solo. Revisit.Dangerous Dave25/03/2022
Broad Law, Hunt Law, Cramalt Craig an Clockmore from small car park near bridge over Talla Water. 13 miles. 3045ft ascentDaveGraham 24/03/2022
A fine, but windy ascent with Rosie after a night wild camping in the VW.mike__riley20/03/2022
Black Law, Greenside Law, Dollar Law, Cramalt Craig, Broad Law, Talla Ceuch Head from Maggot Reservoir. 29km, 1600m ascent, 5hr41min. 8km bike back to car.Huwel11/03/2022
With John - parked at Megget Reservoir car park and decided to do the clockwise loop of Broad Law, Cramalt Craig and Dollar Law. Head back along the road to Megget Stone (unimpressed), and then followed the faint path up to Broad Law. Cold and windy up top, but clouds disappeared so got quite warm. Patches of icy snow but mostly good underfoot conditions. Headed straight over to Cramalt Craig from the radio tower, gave is a quick tap and moved on to Dollar Law. From there we headed across to ther track down to Cramalt and the back along the road to the car park. Total time 5 hours on the dot (well, 5h 33seconds).mproudfoot27/02/2022
From Megget Stone cattle grid (NT 1507 2030). Up to Talla Cleuch Head and Mathieside Cairn first then doubling back and up to here. On to Brown Knowe and Great Knock, picking up Wylies Hill on way down. Nice 10.6 mile round in wintery conditions.jonglew11/02/2022
Parked in a small lay-by the metal bridge leading to Hearthstanes; easy 5.75km plod up the track to the summit and the strange UFO air traffic beacon. Windy but dry, beat the storm front moving in from the NWRockdoctor03/02/2022
Cloudy, but good views. Lots of wildlife - Red Deer, Mountain Hares, Buzzards and Ravens. With Ben, Rory and Sally.Victor20/09/2021
From Cattle Grid by Megget Stone. Room for three cars only. Operated SOTA from summit on short wave.G4OBK (Phil)16/08/2021
From approx 0.5km E of Megget Stone. Wylies Hill, continued to Broad Law, Hunt Law, Birkside Law. Return via Broad Law and via Cairn Law to Talla Cleuch Head (visited high points both sides of fence). Mist over the higher tops some of the time, some showers.RobertP31/07/2021
With LJanet M18/07/2021
Early morning start and straight up to summit and back down with detour to Shepherd's Cairn for breakfast.the pigguy 28/06/2021
Talla Cleuch Head and Broad Law from parking west of Meggat Stone. Beautiful spring dayColin Crawford24/04/2021
Done in winter conditions, solo. Loop from Talla Reservoir via Dollar Law and Stanhope, then a long, long trudge round back via the A701 to Tweedsmuir. Tough going on top with deep snow. Inspired to buy touring skis and returned the following winter.harristhedog31/01/2021
Quick and easy bag on the long drive home. Straight up and down from the Megget Stone. Cloud base at about 580m, saw nothing much above that, not even the radio beacon.Owen B28/09/2020
From Cramalt by Megget Reservoir, along track N, turning up to summit of Notman Law, then along foottracks to Dollar Law, returning along ridge over Fifescar Knowe, Dun Law to Cramalt Craig, then SW to Broad Law, S to Cairn Law, then following deer fence E to Talla Cleuch Head, returned along fence (except foot track past the top of Codleteth Burn, following fence over Fans Law and down to road at the its high point (Megget Stone), cycling back to Cramaltkdbennett02/11/2019
https://www.strava.com/activities/2813512644Graham22b24/10/2019
Up good track from Hearthstanes with A&C. Cloud at top. Went to Trig and to Cairn the other side of the fence. Aircraft guidance system near top.PeterD23/08/2019
Parked beside cattle grid. Straight-forward ascent up along fenceline. Good 360 views at top, apart from mass of windfarms to west. Decended following morning in thick mist.Eliza10012/08/2019
Parked at Meggethead Stone and followed the path to the top before continuing to Dollar Law then dropping down to the road at Cramalt then along the road to the car.Fellhugger08/08/2019
#661 from Hearthstanes, then on to Dollar Law and Manorhead.tim74702/07/2019
Walk up from the Megget stone, good views all round.Nozzer19/06/2019
Up track from Hearthstanes. Superb sunny day.KevPalmer05/05/2019
From Megget Stone, then Talla Cleuch Head then Broad Law, Hunt Law, Cramalt Crag, ClockmoreJulieB04/05/2019
A round of Donalds, tops and XTops from Meggethead. With B and R in warm sunshine.jenx19/04/2019
From the Meggett stone. Easy ascent and fantastic views at sunset. Spent the night at Gainshope bothy.twg2731/03/2019
From Megget Stone, slight loop. V windy (60mph forecast), showers and a little sun. Rounsfell13/01/2019
From the bridge on the A701 at Hearthstane.Alan Caine27/08/2018
Climbed from the Megget Stone, clear day with fantastic viewsalanm915/05/2018
With Joe from Tala Linfoots farm. (Road to Megget Stone closed by heavy snow)John Lee17/02/2018
With Colin, short dayiansm25/11/2017
6th Corbett, 12th Donaldlojzi86062108/10/2017