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| Name: | Priesthope Hill |
| Hill number: | 7300 |
| Height: | 549m / 1801ft |
| 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, Subhump, Yeaman (Tu,5,DDew,sHu,Y) |
| Grid ref: | NT 35066 39959 |
| Summit feature: | cairn E of fence |
| Drop: | 96m |
| Col: | 453m NT350403  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 73 (1:25k) 337 |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 62 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From Walkerburn, walked road NE and took gated road 'Old Caberston Forest' (NT 3719 3768) for Early Knowe then Scawd Law (via a revisit to Cairn Hill). From Scawd, steeply down NW to cross East Grain and onto Middle Hill, contouring round at 400m until NE of here, crossed the West Grain/Thorter Sike burn junction and up to here. On to Kirnie Law. | jonglew | 17/01/2024 |
| Followed fence from Windlestraw Law SW Top over Glede Knowe (591m) & Corby Craigs (518m). Steep climb up to the summit. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 09/01/2024 |
| Parking just S of metal bridge over R Tweed in Walkerburn (NT361368). Lane adjacent to farm café shop N and up to Priesthope ruins. Forest track SE then steeply straight up S ridge of Cairn Hill. Thin FP in heather to Scawd Law. Angled down to East Grain (tough heather) to contour around south flank of Middle Hill to West Grain, then steeply up to col at Priesthope Sware. Steeply up to Priesthope Hill. MTB tracks down to and over Kirnie Law, down SW to bend in forest track NT342380. Followed this E to Purvis Hill – do not try and shortcut NE here down to Walkerburn – there is massive windblow | Isbjorn | 01/05/2023 |
| With Rod, again from Walkerburn, out just bypassing Kirnie Law, over Priesthope Hill then by Glede Knowe and Bareback Knowe to Windlestraw Law. Returned by Middle Hill. | SS | 24/01/2023 |
| Walkhighlands route from Leithen Road CP with SHC. Excellent and straightforward route. | TRG318 | 10/07/2022 |
| Followed obvious track from Kirnie Law all the way to the top then a short step over the fence to the tiny cairn. Returned by a variety of tracks/cycle trails (thank you OpenStreet Map) down to Leith Water then to car on B709 at end of Pirn Hill fort track | Jubilado | 21/04/2022 |
| Parked at golf club. Mainly cycle tracks (shown on Openstreetmap) to summit. Continued to Kirnie Law. | PGCE | 15/03/2021 |
| From Walkerburn out to Priesthope then forest tracks to Kirnie Law and on to Priesthope Hill. From there bit of a trudge out to Windlestraw Law picking up top on return and out over Scawd Law can Cairn Hill. Sun kept trying but never got there. | SS | 18/11/2018 |
| Parked by forest entrance next to Club House at 336389 - Followed the waymarked 'tourist route' which heads S, NE & then N to the summit stones. Soon after emerging from forest, passed the remains of a large 1920s concrete reservoir tank which stored water to produce power for a textile mill in Walkerburn. The nearby disused pumping station pumped water back up again at night. (S) | gerrybowes | 18/10/2018 |
| Reached peak in terrible weather, but some good views of hills across valley along the way | IainHillHunter | 13/01/2018 |
| Weather fair. | MountainMac | 05/11/2017 |
| Windlestraw Law circuit | sam.g.guthrie | 20/04/2016 |
| from the west park ch cp, up through tracks and mtb trails to the top. | robertphillips | 31/01/2016 |
| Mtb trail | Grimpeur1234 | 01/03/2014 |
| From Innerleithen via Pirn Craig and Kirnie Law on Borders Hill Festival guided walk. | silverhow | 01/09/2013 |
| Pleasant clockwise round of Priesthope Hill, Windlestraw SW Top, Scawd Law and Cairn Hill from Walkerburn. | agentmancuso | 29/09/2012 |
| From B709 beside clubhouse - Track N then E to summit. Back down track to S then W and N. | chrisbien | 30/08/2012 |
| heathery summit, small cn just E of fence. circuit from Walkerburn incl Windlestraw | RHW | 18/07/2010 |
| FCL | 27/08/2023 | |
| dunx2005 | 16/04/2023 | |
| pnecelt | 25/11/2022 | |
| maknipe | 26/08/2022 | |
| Lucky | 26/08/2022 | |
| Matt | 04/03/2022 | |
| AndyS | 11/11/2021 | |
| Alan Whatley | 02/07/2021 | |
| Trailmaister | 02/05/2021 | |
| Graham Banks | 28/11/2020 | |
| AlanD | 16/08/2020 | |
| russell61 | 15/07/2019 | |
| tenerifebilly | 15/07/2019 | |
| iaindbrown | 07/07/2019 | |
| Martin R | 06/07/2019 | |
| Berkscire874 | 24/03/2019 | |
| hillhunter | 09/03/2019 | |
| Adrian | 29/12/2018 | |
| tuxer | 17/06/2017 | |
| mae | 20/05/2016 | |
| Anton | 09/07/2015 | |
| carole engel | 09/07/2015 | |
| ian-e | 01/06/2015 | |
| paz1953 | 04/03/2015 | |
| Moore100 | 27/04/2014 | |
| chalky1953 | 28/06/2012 | |
| Alaric | 23/05/2012 | |
| irobbo | 09/08/2010 | |
| fasgadh | 06/09/2009 | |
| Andrew Simmons | 10/11/2008 | |
| Colin Crawford | 21/10/2008 | |
| Fletch | 16/02/2008 |