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Name: | The Knock |
Hill number: | 6109 |
Height: | 355m / 1165ft |
Parent (Ma): | 504 The Coyles of Muick |
RHB Section: | 07A: Braemar to Montrose |
County/UA: | Aberdeenshire |
Catchment: | Dee (Aberdeen) |
Class: | Tump (300-399m), Subhump (Tu,3,sHu) |
Grid ref: | NO 34812 95716 |
Summit feature: | ground 5m W of cairn |
Drop: | 90m |
Col: | 265m NO343948 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 37 44 (1:25k) OL53N 388N |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 24 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Weather fair. | MountainMac | 11/10/2023 |
Summit has been logged allowing good views. Two summit knolls but the eastern one with the cairn is the higher one. | Adrian | 14/08/2022 |
track then up through the trees. | robertphillips | 12/11/2021 |
Ascended from the NW, just afore the washed away path section. Mild bog at the bottom but a nice pathless ascent. Then SE to investigate Knock Castle through the bog before the field. | ragudave | 19/06/2021 |
Made this into a 17km circuit by starting at Ballater Old Station, walking the path along the Dee over Pollhollick Bridge, then SW until just after a washed out section of track where a path goes up towards the Knock. It turns the wrong way, so off piste, very easy in winter, beware bracken in summer, cross a deer fence at a fallen tree, then up the ridge over 2 bumps before the top. SE linking old harvester tracks to join the track winding round SE then NW to the quarry. Extended towards the Dee via track NE from Dallyfour, then N to fishing chalet, good path along river through beautiful natural pine wood. Back over bridge and outwards path, extended via the path around Ballater golf course. Much shorter routes are available but this is a beautiful walk for a lovely spring-like day. | Gill | 26/02/2021 |
Dropped off further west by little Tom Mor (tump) by Tony & Darren on their way to bigger things then a 8km run back to Ballater cottage along the road picking up 2 tumps. There is a large gathering of amusing garden gnomes and associated toadstools etc camped out in the woods down to the SW at Knocks House. In 1899 the Gordon Highlanders were camped out in Glen Muick and were paraded in front of Queen Victoria as she was passing along the SE foot of the hill on the South Deeside road heading to Balmoral. Shortly after the regiment embarked for South Africa where many of them laid down their lives in the Boer Wars. | Chris Pearson | 08/09/2020 |
Good parking at start of track to SSW. Follow track round with pasture on rhs. Track becomes path and then joins another track and then cut up left through open woodland. | Campbell Singer | 03/05/2019 |
From SSW, track then lovely open pinewood. HP is mossy ground 5m W of cairn | RHW | 06/10/2018 |
Along grass vehicl track then through woodland. Small cairn on summit knoll | cjo | 15/09/2018 |
jimbloomer | 30/10/2023 | |
Minto | 03/10/2023 | |
dave g | 01/10/2023 | |
Gonk | 12/05/2022 | |
Dave McG | 11/10/2021 | |
Fletch | 25/06/2021 | |
coldfeet7 | 20/06/2021 | |
GoldenCloud | 20/06/2021 | |
govanah | 08/04/2020 | |
Bob67 | 11/01/2020 | |
chalky1953 | 24/06/2019 | |
thelonious | 03/11/2018 | |
Alan Whatley | 05/10/2018 | |
hill walker | 20/08/2018 | |
ajwxyzt | 25/02/2012 |