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Name: | Eastside Heights |
Hill number: | 7291 |
Height: | 593m / 1946ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1800 Windlestraw Law |
RHB Section: | 28A: Firth of Forth to the River Tweed |
Donald area: | Moorfoot Hills |
County/UA: | Scottish Borders |
Catchment: | Tweed |
Class: | Dodd (500-599m), Donald Dewey (Tu,5,DDew) |
Grid ref: | NT 35547 45897 |
Summit feature: | no feature: ground by fence |
Drop: | 35m |
Col: | 558m NT360453 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 73 (1:25k) 337 |
Observations: | flat summit area |
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 41 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Quick up and down the fence line from the West parking by the Piper's Grave Stone. A relief of fresh air on a very hot afternoon. Nice views to the North. | nickywood1 | 04/09/2023 |
Roadside verge parking between Glentress and Blackhopebyre (NT 3420 4364). Up to Whitehope Law and Middle Hill. Then dropped steeply down and across road to ascend to here on S of the small plantation of conifers. On to Windlestraw Law, Bareback Knowes, Dod Hill and return for a 16.3km round which completed the Donalds and Donald Tops. | jonglew | 25/02/2023 |
Parked at the gate to the west of the hill on the B709. Crossed the fence and headed straight up and straight down. | JAdair97 | 23/03/2022 |
Space for a car in a gateway on B709 to W of hill. Straight up and down. | PGCE | 15/03/2021 |
Parked on the B709 before Blackhopebyre and the track up Glen Rig was followed a bog fest of a track up to Windlestraw Law, route was extended to Eastside Heights following the fence before returning to Windlestraw and continuing the route over Bareback Knowe and then up to White hope Law. Just under Twelve mile in Six and a quarter hours. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 06/10/2020 |
Circuit with Windlestraw Law | Fife Walking | 26/07/2020 |
From parking by Pipers Grave up by sheepfold then fence, Track/trod all the way surprisingly. Garvald Law abandoned in light of shotgun activity! | SS | 25/01/2020 |
Along the fence from Windlestraw. | Moorponder | 15/10/2019 |
Parked in the B709 layby 200 yards N of Blackhopebyre. A fairly direct line across the burn and up steep, grassy slopes to the summit of Whitehope Law, following grassy inlets through the heather. Along the fence N to Roughside Hill, descending by Mid Hill and the saddle on Burnt Shell Rig, across the road near the Piper's Grave, steeply up to Eastside Heights, then a pleasant descent along Blackhopebyre Rig. | Nick Down1 | 11/01/2019 |
Decent parking on hardstanding by gate at NT34747 46081 - Over gate/fence on opposite side of road & then up ATV tracks to unmarked summit. On final approach to summit, tracks faint & intermittent. (S) | gerrybowes | 16/10/2018 |
from the west north of small wood straight up. | robertphillips | 31/01/2016 |
From Piper's Grave layby, NE for a short distance than along fence. | agentmancuso | 17/05/2015 |
P 352501. Track and along fence Dewar Hillonto Eastside and back. Very wet underfoot. All hills are thoroughly soaked. | chrisbien | 18/10/2012 |
Deepish heather, flat summit, visited with Mount Main trig, during a prolonged snow squall. Parking to NW, just S of pass. | RHW | 18/01/2009 |
Pete R | 04/02/2023 | |
Matt | 04/03/2022 | |
FCL | 15/10/2021 | |
Gallovidian | 05/09/2021 | |
Simon Winton | 01/09/2021 | |
iaindbrown | 05/07/2019 | |
silverhow | 04/11/2018 | |
Berkscire874 | 11/09/2018 | |
Driftwood | 24/06/2017 | |
john steel | 31/12/2016 | |
chalky1953 | 18/10/2016 | |
irobbo | 13/05/2016 | |
Anton | 10/07/2015 | |
carole engel | 10/07/2015 | |
mae | 03/07/2015 | |
amcvey | 29/01/2014 | |
Alan Moore | 16/12/2012 | |
Colin Crawford | 09/03/2012 | |
Andrew Simmons | 15/01/2012 | |
Adrian | 14/05/2011 | |
fasgadh | 22/02/2010 | |
Isbjorn | 26/09/2009 | |
Minto | 10/11/1996 | |
David Purchase | 02/12/1995 | |
maknipe | 24/10/1992 | |
amcvey | blank | |
Robertgee | blank |