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| Name: | Yardstone Knowe |
| Hill number: | 7321 |
| Height: | 513m / 1683ft |
| 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 41497 42225 |
| Summit feature: | tall cairn |
| Drop: | 79m |
| Col: | 434m NT400441  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 73 (1:25k) 338 |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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*For information about access rights in Scotland see the ScotWays website.
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 30 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Floowed the fence from Great Law. Returned the same way and then took the good track southwards before reaching the car ay 413398. With D. Dave. | bolton | 08/01/2024 |
| ATV track east from Great Law, then another good ATV track runs west of the wall, travelling north to the cairned summit. Back south along track then continued on excellent ATV track to the bridge over Caddon Water. Back uphill on grass slope to rejoin road back to the car by the cattle grid (NT 413 397). With bolton. | Dangerous Dave | 08/01/2024 |
| Parking at NT413397 - the road through Blackhaugh has all the appearance of being a private estate road, but standard road signs further up the hill seem to confirm it being a public highway. Good tracks to Yardstone Knowe. Easy veg down to the Caddon Water and up to Maiden Law. Then good to fair ATV tracks over Seathope Law and Stony Knowe | Isbjorn | 21/04/2023 |
| Stow-Yardstone Knowe-Stony Knowe-Seathope Law-Maiden Law-Windlestraw Law-Stow | campagvelocet | 11/05/2022 |
| After Dunlee, kept following the fence until I got to the pile of stones. | JAdair97 | 11/05/2022 |
| From Stow out to Fowie and beyond on tracks then past grouse butts to fence and on to interesting cairn on Yardstone Knowe. Returned by Ferniehirst Hill and Lugate (my map still says dismantled railway). | SS | 05/06/2021 |
| Small parking area by cattle grid at 413397. Circuit of 6 summits, mainly on ATV tracks: Great Law, Yardstone Knowe, Dunlee Hill, Maiden Law, Seathope Law, Stony Knowe. | PGCE | 16/03/2021 |
| Small parking area by cattle grid at 413397 - Good tracks up to ridge & then well-used ATV track for about 1km - Short walk through heather to summit cairn. Continued to Maiden Law, Seathorpe Law & Stony Knowe. (S) | gerrybowes | 16/10/2018 |
| From Stow. 3h 16 | dunx2005 | 25/03/2017 |
| round of stony knowe, seathope law, maiden law, yardstone knowe, windlestraw law, bareback knowe wl sw top, scawd law ACW from holylee. | robertphillips | 06/03/2016 |
| From Craig Head cattle grid: Stony Law, Seathope Law, Maiden Law, Windlestraw Law, Mossy Rig, Scroof Hill, Dunlee Hill, Yardstone Knowe, Ferniehirst Hill, Great Law. Mostly easy underfoot, bitterly cold wind. | agentmancuso | 02/05/2015 |
| Parked above Blackhaugh at cattlegrid, NT41333972. Track then ATV track. Continued to Maiden Law. | RHW | 29/03/2014 |
| Windydoors-Hare Cleuch-Great Law-Yardstone Knowe-Ferniehirst Hill-Crumside Hill. | chrisbien | 09/12/2012 |
| Matt | 07/03/2022 | |
| Berkscire874 | 05/11/2021 | |
| Adrian | 21/01/2019 | |
| Lucky | 31/05/2018 | |
| maknipe | 31/05/2018 | |
| sam.g.guthrie | 28/11/2016 | |
| chalky1953 | 19/10/2016 | |
| Dave Geere | 31/07/2016 | |
| irobbo | 12/05/2016 | |
| silverhow | 03/11/2015 | |
| carole engel | 12/07/2015 | |
| Anton | 11/07/2015 | |
| mae | 03/07/2015 | |
| Colin Crawford | 17/06/2012 | |
| Andrew Simmons | 15/01/2012 | |
| fasgadh | 08/07/2006 | |
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