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Name: | Whiteknowe Head |
Hill number: | 7437 |
Height: | 513m / 1683ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1845 Dun Rig |
RHB Section: | 28B: The River Tweed to the English Border |
Donald area: | Manor Hills |
County/UA: | Scottish Borders |
Catchment: | Tweed |
Class: | Subdodd (s5) |
Grid ref: | NT 26881 29699 |
Summit feature: | no feature: heather |
Drop: | 28m |
Col: | 485m NT265303 |
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 33 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Followed the SUW from Kirkhouse Kirk CP. Lovely route through grazed fields then open moorland to Blake Muir and Pt.479m, then ATV track to Deuchar Law. Less obvious path to the less obvious summit of Whiteknowe Head then picked old and overgrown FP over Peat Hill to Glenshiel Banks. From here it's a surprisingly pleasant road walk back to Kirkhouse, passing through the even more pleasant Glen House hamlet. 3.5hrs. | summitter | 24/11/2023 |
From NT 3057 3361, parking for 3 cars opposite the lodge. Took the CBDR track initially, then veered off up to Birks Hill, Birkscairn Hill, Stake Law, Dun Rig then followed fenceline down and up to here over some rough and wet ground. On to Deuchar Law, Blake Muir and return for an 18.6k round. | jonglew | 03/11/2022 |
Deuchar Law et al from Traquair. | thekirkie pirate | 18/06/2022 |
Easy descent from Dun Rig, then heather and soft snow to the top. | Owen B | 01/04/2018 |
From Craig Douglas road end. There are two paths marked as leaving the forest road in NT2728 on the 1:50k, but the westernmost has been killed by the forest and rerouted to branch off the easternmost a few hundred yards further up. | agentmancuso | 04/02/2017 |
An interesting curate's egg type of walk. Up the Drove road to Birks Hill (signposted with Spanish bulls instead of Scottish ones), with an inversion over Innerleithen and Peebles - nice. Nice easy path on to Birkscairn Hill. Hard snow patches on Dun Rig gave slight respite from the bogs. The summit seems to be marked with a fencepost stuck in the highest bit of bog. Down via Peat Hill (a rough thrash even on the faint ATV tracks) and a pleasant grassy climb on to Deuchar Law, which looks grassy but is capped by monstrous vegetables. Perversely, I kept following ATV tracks which went in the wrong direction, so much of the thankfully short walk along the top was a wade through deep vegetables. Bitter irony, I found a good ATV track about 5 feet from the cairn. The descent above Glenshiel Banks and Loch Eddy is utterly fabulous, and makes up for the suffering. The walk back through the Glen is also lovely, passing a mausoleum to the memory of Charles and Henry Tennant. | Gill | 03/12/2016 |
5th hill of 10 today on satisfying Southern Upland way alternative that I had planned. Starting from the Tibbie Shiel's Inn I climbed Nether Hill, the Wiss, Ward Law, Deuchar Law and then descended down to a brook over this and steeply up through the heather to the flattish moorland plateaux. I spent about 15 minutes walking around to determine the highest point but my readings varied greatly. Followed fenceline as navigation aid to 
Dun Rig. | Dazingdale | 14/05/2015 |
3 of 8 today with GHC. On the way to Dun Rig. | Play2End | 15/02/2015 |
Parked a T-junction NT302335 near Glen House – Glenshiel Banks – WNW to summit of Dun Rig – Whiteknowe Head – Deuchar Law – N. down Deuchar Rig – Track down The Glen to Glen House. 10½ miles. (PM,CM) | gerrybowes | 16/05/2014 |
Ticked flat moorland plateau with Chris Watson. Parked passed Kirkhouse to use the Southern Upland Way to Blake Muir, Deuhar Law, Whiteknowe Head, Dun Rig, Stake Law and Birkscairn Hill before descending to Glen House Estate Farm to use the minor road back to Kirkhouse. | Dugswell2 | 09/11/2013 |
Parked nr Glen Ho. With Jenx walked up pretty The Glen. Up frm Loch Eddy | nordicstar | 29/10/2011 |
Flat heather summit, 514m GPSr (3m). | RHW | 27/03/2011 |
Clach Liath | 09/05/2023 | |
Matt | 17/03/2022 | |
sam.g.guthrie | 16/10/2021 | |
Berkscire874 | 18/04/2021 | |
JFT_96 | 01/08/2020 | |
49pp | 08/03/2019 | |
Dave Geere | 23/02/2019 | |
irobbo | 21/04/2017 | |
duchally | 19/12/2016 | |
phil101 | 11/06/2016 | |
Anton | 07/06/2015 | |
carole engel | 07/06/2015 | |
bolton | 06/05/2014 | |
chriswatson | 10/11/2013 | |
ARM | 07/11/2010 | |
Tricky | 15/09/2007 | |
David Purchase | 18/10/2006 | |
maknipe | 11/07/2004 | |
Machyde | 23/10/1994 | |
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BigJ | 19/02/1989 |