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Name: | Knowes Hill |
Hill number: | 7342 |
Height: | 373.9m / 1227ft |
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: | Hump, Tump (300-399m), Yeaman (Hu,Tu,3,Y) |
Grid ref: | NT 43735 38313 |
Summit feature: | tiny cairn S of wall |
Drop: | 100.6m |
Col: | 273.3m NT 4358 3941 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 73 (1:25k) 338 |
Observations: | top 125m SE at NT 43844 38255 (small cairn) is c 1m lower |
Survey: | Abney level/Leica RX1250 |
Comments: | Promoted to Hump November 2013 |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 55 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
See https://scotlandhills.net/hills-around-galashiels-and-stow/ | hill walker | 10/09/2023 |
From new forestry road, cutting corners and following wall. Gate through barbed wire wall, then along by the new deer fence to the tiny cairn. | NormanW | 08/03/2022 |
Bike up the new road and along the ridge. Only walked the last few metres to summit. Fine day with stiff breeze, a friend on the way up. Tree planters were at work. | fasgadh | 03/02/2022 |
From east on new track, which I was relieved to find has been constructed for trees not turbines. Turn right at the fork and it takes you almost to the summit. Don't go through the top gate - the summit is inside the new deer fence. | Wycombe Wanderer | 29/12/2021 |
Consolation hill, deciding to bag a couple of HuMPs on way back to Melrose Gibson Park C&Mh Club site after deciding 13:15pm in December at trailhead and pouring rain was too late to attempt the 4 miles e/w up/down Burnhope Scar. Parked at new forestry track entrance NT449381. 
Ascent via Dunlee Hill Wood S. boundary but best is up and down new forestry track. 
Blinding snowstorm on approach to summit and followed wall NW to summit. 
My Garmin made most southerly 340 contour ring as hp, apparently it is not. 
Plan was to go up Mains Hill next but pleased I didn't road was nearly impassable back to A7. | mntainman | 04/12/2021 |
Up through fields and over walls. Down via new track that goes nearly to the top. With B, B and R. | jenx | 01/08/2021 |
With Rod from Clovenfords in an anticlockwise loop. A fine walk with great views. Couple of easy wall crossings on Knowes Hill. | SS | 10/05/2021 |
From verge parking at gate on B710 just north of highpoint. Field track up passed the north of the wood, slight dip then up easy slopes (wall to cross) to the two summits. | N.Morters | 17/09/2020 |
Roadside verge parking NT 4483 3792. | jonglew | 17/01/2020 |
Parked to the east on the verge near a gate. Along the field edges and up to the summit. | LizH | 04/12/2019 |
From the east. One wall to overcome. | Campbell Singer | 08/07/2019 |
P S of col NT 44834 37936, 3 gates and one wall junction, easy pasture. | agentmancuso | 06/04/2018 |
From the top of the B710, park on nearby grass verge with care. Around the south side of the forestry, where there is a fairly easy wall scramble. After that it is all short grass and gates. Summit is on west side of the summit wall. | Topographer57 | 04/11/2017 |
Lovely clear cool sunny weather with superb views. Ascent from road to east through gated sheep pasture. Low cairn on top. | Denise | 04/02/2017 |
From road up wet grassy fields and through lots of gates. Sheep grazing on summit. | RichardM | 04/02/2017 |
squeezed car in near trees just to S of col, then walk up field to a pleasant summit, the retraced to Mains hill | Thearlaichdubh | 27/12/2016 |
P start of track to Knowes Dean Res. Up road to Windygates and then track to BH. Back to car and 3 gates later at the top of KH. | chrisbien | 14/08/2016 |
up from hp on road to east | robertphillips | 05/05/2016 |
Post storm Desmond via the tower/folly. | Martin R | 07/12/2015 |
From road summit to E. | jimbloomer | 17/02/2015 |
Parked to west by gate not far from highest point of road. 3 summits with ciarns, middle one the highest. | Adrian | 15/02/2015 |
Another final Scottish mainland HuMP, sure to be more given the level of tampering going on ! 
Pleasant walk from Clovenfords Inn via Whytbank Tower. | chalky1953 | 02/01/2014 |
373m GPS, small cairn a few m E of wall. from E, pastiure, 6 walls, a bit awkward | RHW | 19/11/2011 |
Crumblie2 | 13/02/2024 | |
Fletch | 30/11/2022 | |
interloper | 30/11/2022 | |
Matt | 08/03/2022 | |
Tricky | 13/11/2021 | |
Dave McG | 08/11/2021 | |
Berkscire874 | 10/09/2021 | |
richtea5040 | 05/10/2020 | |
dunx2005 | 29/01/2020 | |
softsquare | 29/12/2019 | |
PeterAH | 04/12/2019 | |
Tom Mundell | 17/02/2019 | |
Trekking toes | 17/02/2019 | |
ZanderH | 06/04/2018 | |
AndyS | 25/12/2017 | |
carole engel | 29/09/2017 | |
russell61 | 07/03/2017 | |
Alan Whatley | 31/10/2015 | |
mae | 25/10/2015 | |
bjewing | 10/10/2015 | |
irobbo | 18/08/2015 | |
silverhow | 04/03/2015 | |
PM | 24/01/2015 | |
Moore100 | 04/12/2014 | |
Kiltie | 05/09/2014 | |
Colin Crawford | 02/12/2013 | |
iaindbrown | 09/11/2013 |