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Name:Hermaness Hill
Hill number:4911
Height:200m / 656ft
Parent (Ma):1540  Valla Field
RHB Section:22: Shetland Islands
County/UA:Shetland Islands
Island:Unst
Watershed:Shetland
Class:Hump, Tump (200-299m), Yeaman
(Hu,Tu,2,Y)
Grid ref:HP 60686 17569
Summit feature:grassy mound
Drop:139m
Col:61m  HP589103  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 1
(1:25k) 470N
Observations:ground 50m WNW at HP 60643 17581 is lower
Survey:Abney level
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 90 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all)ByDate of Ascent
From Hermaness nature reserve car parkCrib Goch15/05/2023
Clockwise loop from nature reserve car park with detour along cliff to Neap. Walk took longer than expected due to abundance of Puffins on cliff tops. Gannets a plenty but Very few Bonxies seen from board walk on way back.PeterD11/05/2023
On our honeymoon touring some of Scotlands islands. It started to chuck it down on our walk up, it was very misty and we just about saw the Mugga Flugga lighthouse! I've never walked so fast to get back to the campervan to the dry!explorewithpaws15/06/2022
From parking at entrance to Hermaness NNR (HP612149), then around paths and boardwalks NW to Toolie, N along coast to near Boelie, S over Hermaness Hill (diverting a short way to summit), descending back to parkingkdbennett25/05/2022
Along board walk from car parkCoxswain14/09/2021
From the car park along the board walks and following the footpath to Toolie and the grassy path along the cliffs round to the summit. The more direct ascent is being discouraged due to erosion, even out of breeding season. Very pleasant walk.LizH26/08/2021
With KeithBytheC. Visited the most Northerly point as well opposite Muckle Flugga. Loads of gannets and puffins as well as Bonxies.JulieB27/06/2021
From car park along board walk to Toolie. Along cliff top path to Humla Stack, then up to summit. Back same way due to nesting birds. KeithByTheC27/06/2021
Completed watershed with Son LiamNeil Fraser09/08/2020
With Yeltzbagger. Stayed for two nights at Saxa Vord (fantastic hostel) and walked to the nature reserve. Stunning place. Gannets and puffins everywhere. Bonxies bombing us as we climbed the hill. Unforgettable day.Stevie n Tay10/11/2019
From the car park.PGCE21/10/2019
An incidental tick whilst walking around Herma Ness NNR. Walked from Saxa Vord hostel on seriously hot roads, and a huge relief to get up higher. Much too hot to do any other hills (yes this really is Shetland). BTW, if you want to see bonxies, oystercatchers, and practically any other type of onshore birds, don't come here, instead take a walk on the non-touristy hills which are absolutely teeming with birds. The gannets are good though. Way too hot to walk all the way back, so I hitched a lift to the road junction and then visited the Unst Heritage Centre, one of the widely spaced places where you can get shade in the heat of the day, but interesting as well.Gill28/07/2019
With Stevie n Tay. Walked to the nature reserve from Saxa Vord. One of the greatest days of our lives. Puffins, bonxies and gannets everywhere.Yeltzbagger10/07/2019
From the car park (HP 6121 1495). Made a circular walk of it with Neap, Tonga, Libbers Hill and Sneuga - pleasant 15k with some stunning cliff scenery.jonglew24/06/2019
From nature testbed car Park up the path and board walk then across the moorland and the bonxie bombardment.vegibagger16/06/2019
From the car park. The boardwalk was tedious but the walk along the cliffs was terrific.Chris Peart13/06/2019
Approach from parking area to S.ger11/06/2019
From Saxa Vord hostel - Milldale Burn - Tonga & spectacular cliffs - coastline N to sighting of Muckle Flugga including Neap - back over Hermaness Hill - Burrafirth - Saxa Vord. Few puffins left. With Gillianrichard6902/08/2018
Decided that my 2007 visit in thick mist should not stand.jimbloomer19/07/2018
Cycled up the graded path to the crossing over Winnaswarta. Then followed waymarks, past the request to not take the ridge route. Comically bagged everything that could be considered the highest spot.Eddie12/03/2017
The direct path from the south is currently (June 2016) closed, but the alternative via Toolie is better in any case. I tried for grid square HP6118 (for Geograph purposes), but the bonxies won!David Purchase04/06/2016
Cycled length of Unst with Lesley and Nick to return our hire bikes then a long road walk to visitor centre and onto the hill path to the tremendous cliff tops and close views of puffins. I left the others to strike out across Skua territory for the summit - one or two scary swooping attacks -before rejoining them to sit and stare at the stacks and birds, and all in sunshine whilst the eastern half of the island just a few miles away was under a mist blanket as had been Fetlar yesterday. 3 more lifts from ever- so welcoming locals eventually got us back to our bod at Mid Yell. Hitching became one of the fun enjoyable parts of the holiday as the challenge ,uncertainty, and invariably meeting friendly locals became part of our Shetland experience.Chris Pearson24/07/2014
From Car Park via Toolie; very bracingbenalder28405/04/2014
From HP 612 149 on clockwise Hermaness Hill and cliff circuit.summitsup11/06/2013
Did this lovely hill with Jen and Rick before Tricky and I disappeared to view the sea stacks and did 5 coastal TuMPs before being collected by Rick before the next HuMP.Dugswell229/05/2013
w Jenx, Tricky and Doug from visitor CP. Easy path to burn line, then direct to top avoiding plastic path. Great summit, descended to gannett colonies on stacks and view of most northerly point of Britain. followed coast to the Neap, then rough ground back direct to CP.nordicstar29/05/2013
Furthest north hill in the database, that explains the snowstorms in May. From car park, used main track until it becomes plastic. Headed straight for summit. Then down to view Muckle Flugga etc. which is a terrific view. Followed cliffs round and then used the plastic path which is an abomination.Martin R05/05/2012
With Mrs Anchovy on our way up to the north coast to view Out Stack.Herbert Anchovy18/10/2004
prescribed circuit clockwise from car park to S RHW18/06/1998
The hottest summer on record ..... everywhere but here. A note in the observatory hut read .... next year I'm off to Benidorm!moorsman01/08/1976
Estimated date. Went there while training at Lerwick Observatory.chrisbien01/08/1972
On overland trip by bus/ferries from Lerwick and return on MV Earl of Zetland. Happy days.lordtonult15/07/1967
Walked out to See the birds for my first visit with my mother Father and older brother. I have been back to the summit on 4 other occasions. Only once since the hut blew away from below the summit. I will be back shortly when I walk Watershed South to North.Neil Fraser20/07/1966
thelonious27/06/2023
beckybags25/05/2023
A Peckish25/05/2023
govanah08/05/2022
PeterAH26/08/2021
phil10127/06/2021
mcarney05/06/2021
PM18/06/2019
DRS11/06/2019
softsquare22/07/2017
Thorny01/07/2015
neilsan13/06/2014
medifix01/04/2014
Alan Whatley24/03/2014
bolton26/07/2013
Tony Rogers03/06/2013
bjewing02/06/2013