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Name: | Black Hill |
Hill number: | 8374 |
Height: | 443m / 1453ft |
Parent (Ma): | 506 Meall Mor |
RHB Section: | 07A: Braemar to Montrose |
County/UA: | Angus, Perth and Kinross |
Catchment: | Tay |
Class: | Tump (400-499m) (Tu,4) |
Grid ref: | NO 20360 56673 |
Summit feature: | small rock 30m E of fence |
Drop: | 39m |
Col: | 404m NO201570 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 53 (1:25k) 381 |
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 24 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
As others, from the road pass and through the firebreak | Colin Crawford | 11/06/2023 |
From the cattle grid | Gonk | 09/03/2023 |
Knockton Hill, Cairn Gibbs, Black Hill, Druid Dearg. 
Note between Cairn Gibbs and Blackhill there’s much wind throw, best to use the forestry roads. | Adrian | 07/06/2022 |
Parked at cattle grid 215570. Straight to the top, then on by a very easy path through the forest following the county boundary along a wide firebreak to the top of Knockton. | NormanW | 07/05/2021 |
Black Hill/Knockton/Cairn Gibbs/Druim Dearg from high point on road. | daviemore | 04/09/2020 |
Bike from Blairgowrie | bertbarnett123 | 19/04/2020 |
black hill, cairn gibbs, knockton, from parking at track entrance to the east. | robertphillips | 07/09/2019 |
As Alda to Black Hill. Back and along track then firebreak to 200585 and up along fence to Knockton then onwards to Cairn Gibbs. Back to bealach then track N of Knockton nearly to road. Up road then Druim Dearg and back down to car and football in Forfar. | chrisbien | 21/04/2018 |
Straightforward. Parking at NO 208583, track west then south, good path through firebreak then rougher path alongside trees to summit, which is 30m east of the fence. | alda | 25/06/2015 |
govanah | 23/09/2023 | |
Matt | 10/09/2023 | |
Gallovidian | 05/03/2023 | |
AFD90 | 03/10/2022 | |
hill walker | 15/08/2021 | |
thelonious | 17/07/2021 | |
Tony S | 06/03/2021 | |
Simon Winton | 30/12/2020 | |
chalky1953 | 03/07/2019 | |
Rod M | 02/06/2019 | |
Waterlog | 17/01/2019 | |
richtea5040 | 03/10/2018 | |
benarmine | 03/02/2017 | |
Lindsay M | 02/08/2015 | |
Canny | 06/08/2013 |