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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 |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 90 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
From Hermaness nature reserve car park | Crib Goch | 15/05/2023 |
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. | PeterD | 11/05/2023 |
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! | explorewithpaws | 15/06/2022 |
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 parking | kdbennett | 25/05/2022 |
Along board walk from car park | Coxswain | 14/09/2021 |
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. | LizH | 26/08/2021 |
With KeithBytheC. Visited the most Northerly point as well opposite Muckle Flugga. Loads of gannets and puffins as well as Bonxies. | JulieB | 27/06/2021 |
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. | KeithByTheC | 27/06/2021 |
Completed watershed with Son Liam | Neil Fraser | 09/08/2020 |
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 Tay | 10/11/2019 |
From the car park. | PGCE | 21/10/2019 |
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. | Gill | 28/07/2019 |
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. | Yeltzbagger | 10/07/2019 |
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. | jonglew | 24/06/2019 |
From nature testbed car Park up the path and board walk then across the moorland and the bonxie bombardment. | vegibagger | 16/06/2019 |
From the car park. The boardwalk was tedious but the walk along the cliffs was terrific. | Chris Peart | 13/06/2019 |
Approach from parking area to S. | ger | 11/06/2019 |
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 Gillian | richard69 | 02/08/2018 |
Decided that my 2007 visit in thick mist should not stand. | jimbloomer | 19/07/2018 |
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. | Eddie | 12/03/2017 |
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 Purchase | 04/06/2016 |
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 Pearson | 24/07/2014 |
From Car Park via Toolie; very bracing | benalder284 | 05/04/2014 |
From HP 612 149 on clockwise Hermaness Hill and cliff circuit. | summitsup | 11/06/2013 |
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. | Dugswell2 | 29/05/2013 |
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. | nordicstar | 29/05/2013 |
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 R | 05/05/2012 |
With Mrs Anchovy on our way up to the north coast to view Out Stack. | Herbert Anchovy | 18/10/2004 |
prescribed circuit clockwise from car park to S | RHW | 18/06/1998 |
The hottest summer on record ..... everywhere but here. A note in the observatory hut read .... next year I'm off to Benidorm! | moorsman | 01/08/1976 |
Estimated date. Went there while training at Lerwick Observatory. | chrisbien | 01/08/1972 |
On overland trip by bus/ferries from Lerwick and return on MV Earl of Zetland. Happy days. | lordtonult | 15/07/1967 |
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 Fraser | 20/07/1966 |
thelonious | 27/06/2023 | |
beckybags | 25/05/2023 | |
A Peckish | 25/05/2023 | |
govanah | 08/05/2022 | |
PeterAH | 26/08/2021 | |
phil101 | 27/06/2021 | |
mcarney | 05/06/2021 | |
PM | 18/06/2019 | |
DRS | 11/06/2019 | |
softsquare | 22/07/2017 | |
Thorny | 01/07/2015 | |
neilsan | 13/06/2014 | |
medifix | 01/04/2014 | |
Alan Whatley | 24/03/2014 | |
bolton | 26/07/2013 | |
Tony Rogers | 03/06/2013 | |
bjewing | 02/06/2013 |