Loading...
| Name: | Costa Hill |
| Hill number: | 7091 |
| Height: | 151m / 495ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 1555 Milldoe - Mid Tooin |
| RHB Section: | 23: Orkney Islands |
| County/UA: | Orkney Islands |
| Island: | Orkney Mainland |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m), Subhump, Yeaman (Tu,1,sHu,Y) |
| Grid ref: | HY 31126 29692 |
| Summit feature: | mound 10m E of trig point |
| Drop: | 93m |
| Col: | 58m HY317289  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 6 (1:25k) 463 |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way. Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land(*).
*For information about access rights in Scotland see the ScotWays website.
Please report via the contact page any logs you see below which describe or encourage acts of trespass. Please quote the hill number and hill name.
| Logged Descriptions (logged by 38 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| 16:30 glorious but still windy. Nest to trig, old ex military building. 100metres west Concrete rectangular trough next to another two stepped concrete thing bit shorter than trig. Unexpected find a sagar marl rough clay type sculpture of a helmeted warrior. Amalgamation of Scots & Viking. Broken horn of helmet bits in bottom of pit and next to it. It needs rescuing and mending. | vegibagger | 26/08/2022 |
| Parked opposite farm entrance ~650m almost due Wof the hill. Field gate into sheep pasture, then b/w stock fence, after which heather. Interesting top. | jonglew | 09/08/2022 |
| Up and down the track. | tim747 | 07/08/2022 |
| Parked in layby at N end of Loch. Walked along road to track and up this to summit. Direct descent to recently mown hay field and car. | Minto | 01/08/2022 |
| Parked on verge by track entrance and followed track to summit area with trig, grass covered cairn ( adjacent, probably HP but disturbed ground), low disused military building, and disused, ruined military tower, possibly old radar??? Windy, grey with occasional sun. ‘Tower ‘ base may be higher? Wondered if the soldiers enjoyed the coffee? | Denise | 30/07/2022 |
| Parked at north end of loch and followed the St Magnus Trail track up to the summit. | assynt_bob | 30/07/2022 |
| Parked N of loch, as others. The track end has a no parking sign and space is non-existent so I can understand why it's there. Easy stroll to trig, nearby HP on mound and WW2 relic building. The mound beyond the building is obviously lower | Colin Crawford | 28/07/2022 |
| Couldn't find the cafe on this imposing little high point on St magnus way. Parked at layby at N end of loch. | Thearlaichdubh | 21/09/2021 |
| Walked along the road then up the track. I couldn't see anything today apart from the trigpoint pillar and the building. | Alancache | 06/08/2019 |
| Parking not possible at the track entrance so parked up next to a Swannay Farm sign in a lay-by at the north end of the loch. | summitter | 25/07/2019 |
| Straight forward walk up the track all the way to the trig. Some interesting WWII leftovers at top too. Lots of sheep, so we kept Charlie on the lead. | thejackrustles | 23/09/2016 |
| From the loch side lay-by up the track to the abandoned station. What a miserable place to be posted to. | Play2End | 20/08/2014 |
| Up track mound nr trig | chrisbien | 02/06/2014 |
| Walked up track to bag the trig and check out the summit area with Jim Bloomer and Tricky Speirs. | Dugswell2 | 31/05/2014 |
| From HY 309 293 | summitsup | 30/05/2012 |
| Obvious start at HY309293, obvious track, summit not quite so obvious. There is a lumpy mound near the trig which is higher, but is it natural? Scruffy top with good view of Rousay/Westray. | Martin R | 18/05/2012 |
| Trig revisit. Fine evening view over Loch of Swannay and Eynhallow Sound | RHW | 28/05/2010 |
| Date is first visit. Notes from later...see log on TrigpointingUK.com. | RHW | 29/07/2002 |
| Matt | 18/10/2023 | |
| SteveG | 01/08/2022 | |
| RichardM | 30/07/2022 | |
| Tony S | 02/05/2022 | |
| Lorna S | 02/05/2022 | |
| Simon Winton | 28/04/2022 | |
| victoria_hikes | 25/08/2019 | |
| asbown | 20/06/2019 | |
| benarmine | 01/04/2019 | |
| Alan Whatley | 12/10/2016 | |
| alanm | 23/06/2014 | |
| richtea5040 | 05/06/2014 | |
| jimbloomer | 31/05/2014 | |
| Jim.Fothergill | 31/05/2014 | |
| Tricky | 31/05/2014 | |
| Sherlock | 08/06/2013 | |
| BrianMatthews | 25/05/2008 | |
| Arctica | 29/07/2002 | |
| chalky1953 | 25/08/2001 | |
| Katrina89 | blank |