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| Name: | Brown Knowe |
| Hill number: | 7420 |
| Height: | 523m / 1716ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 1919 Minch Moor |
| County/UA: | Scottish Borders |
| Topographical area: | SS08 Broadlaw-minchmoor |
| SMC/RHB section: | 28B: The River Tweed to the English Border |
| Donald area: | Manor Hills |
| Catchment: | Tweed |
| Class: | Dodd (500-599m), Donald Dewey (Tu,5,DDew) |
| Grid ref: | NT 38856 32642 |
| Summit feature: | cairn |
| Drop: | 60m |
| Col: | 463m NT380332  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 73 (1:25k) 337 |
| Observations: | knoll 20m N at NT 38857 32661 is just lower |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 108 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| While doing Southern Upland Way | SS | 03/09/2024 |
| While doing SUW from Traquair. | Toby-and-Dion | 12/05/2024 |
| While doing SUW from Yair bridge. | Toby-and-Dion | 05/05/2024 |
| Circuit from Yarrowford, parking in area by telephone box. Climbed Foulshiels Hill, on to Hareshaw Hill, Southern Upland Way to Broomy Law, Brown Knowe, Hare Law. South to Wanders Law, then descent S (some rough ground but clear of trees) and on to Old Hill and Tinnis Top. Returned via tracks N of A708. Cold largely frozen ground. | RobertP | 15/01/2024 |
| Circuit of Foulshiels Hill, Peat Law, Hareshaw Hill, Broomy Law and Brown Knowe from Yarrowford. Last one of the day, descended roughly to meet the Minchmoor Road for the walk out. | milimana | 08/08/2023 |
| Yarrowford - anti-parking signs in abundance. After moving an anti-parking rock, I managed to squeeze onto some rocks, brambles and dog poo at the foot of the staircase at the start of the Minch Moor link path to the SUW (NT4066230166). Up the link path, NNW, to Hare Law. Back to the three way finger post and a further 20m E then a thin green line, N, through heather to a wall and fence junction. Continuing N, after an indistinct start, a faint FP follows the E side of the wall and fence to Far Hill after which a better FP cum ATV follows on, N, to Elibank Law. Returned to the three way finger post, then E to Brown Knowe, then down a heather fire break, S, to the link path | Isbjorn | 20/04/2023 |
| (Bike) With FNY collective MTB ride from Innerleithen | fellie | 19/03/2023 |
| As part of SUW. | Skerryvore | 03/06/2022 |
| With Keith from Traquair to Yair | SS | 02/02/2022 |
| Parked in residential area in Yarrowford (NT 4068 3007). Took the track for Minch Moor and peeled off for here with about 400m to go. On to Hare Law and Minch Moor, and picked up Wanders Knowe, Old Hill and Tinnis Top on the return for a breezy 18k round. | jonglew | 01/02/2022 |
| Out and back of tops from Traquair. | thekirkie pirate | 04/01/2022 |
| With Jan up the Minch Moor path to the col then back along the SUW to the Three Brethren which we last visited together in the late 1960's! Returned to Yarrowford by Old Broadmeadows. | SS | 13/10/2021 |
| From Traquair village hall car park following the SUW to the point where it’s signposted to the summit of Minch Moor. From here we went on to Brown Howe and returned the way we came | Wayne Mac | 19/06/2021 |
| See Minch Moor | JulieB | 29/05/2021 |
| On the Southern Upland Way, the route goes over it. | nickywood1 | 27/04/2021 |
| On SUW. | PGCE | 04/09/2020 |
| From Minch Moor. Followed the Southern Upland Way east over Hare Law to the summit. Then we returned west to the col, taking the Minchmoor Road down south-east to the car at Yarrowford. With NP and JK. | Man of Kernow1 | 29/02/2020 |
| with M&J. Sunny and cold, rain stayed off during a very wet winter spell. from Traquair over Minchmoor to Yarrowford via a snowy Minchmoor summit and out and back to Brown Knowe. Delightful easy walk. | niallp | 29/02/2020 |
| Parking area by phone box in Yarrowford at NT 4082 2994 & up Minch Moor, Far Hill & Elibank Law. From Elibank Law, back along path to collapsed wall & then path back to SUW - Up good path to summit cairn. Back down the Minchmoor Road to car. (S) | gerrybowes | 22/10/2019 |
| With Cat - return to Three Brethren after fifty years | SS | 19/08/2018 |
| On SUW Innerleithen- Gala. underfoot hard going in fresh snow. | Thearlaichdubh | 16/02/2018 |
| 5th of 9 for the day with Deana. Superb sunshine, negligible wind. | summitter | 03/12/2017 |
| From SUW car park up to Minch Moor and on to Brown Knowe on excellent path. Backtracked a bit then went cross country to Far Hill and Elibank Law. Returned same way but cut down to Camp Shiel for a variation. | SS | 18/11/2017 |
| On SUW. | clivevilla | 09/06/2017 |
| nice walk up from Yarrowford. | steven ruffles | 26/05/2016 |
| round of brown knowe, far hill, elibank law from 369332 | robertphillips | 05/05/2016 |
| Fifth hill of 8 today from Innerleithen to Galashiels on an improvised Southern Upland Way walk:Plora rig, Minch moor,Hare Law, Wanders Knowe and then dropping down through forest and climbing steeply up through a bowl like depression into Wallace's trench and then upto the summit. | Dazingdale | 15/05/2015 |
| Walk on drove road, visiting summits. See Minch Moor log for more detail. | pwheeler | 26/09/2014 |
| SUW | borderterrier | 17/05/2014 |
| Revisited while picking up nearby tops. | agentmancuso | 11/08/2012 |
| Cars road nr Scrogbank Rig and Traquair. Elibank Law - Far Hill - Brown Knowe - Hare Law - Traquair. With Peter, Tom and Gerry. | chrisbien | 29/07/2012 |
| Walked on day 9 of the SUW | tsharp | 23/04/2012 |
| Cns N and S side of fence ~equal, on SUW. from West Bold, drove forest road to S.U.W. then Minch Moor and DDs | RHW | 17/07/2010 |
| On route to Three Brethren. | Walker Dan | 04/10/2009 |
| Done on Southern Upland Way. | ngthack | 22/08/2009 |
| Backpacking along SUW. | agentmancuso | 14/08/2002 |
| On Pennine way to West Highland Way link | Bob Aldred | 06/04/1996 |
| Date? | callumblack | 01/04/1996 |
| On MTB charity ride of Southern Upland Way, date approx. | Dave McG | 01/05/1991 |
| Approx date as completion of SUW took two years! | lordtonult | 04/04/1988 |
| Ascended as part of the Southern Upland Way from Broadmeadows to St Mary's Loch. | JohnW | 26/08/1984 |
| En route to Minch Moor with Edinburgh University group, starting from Walkerburn. Not now sufficiently confident of having reached summit to tick it! | mainnirnamfiadh | 04/11/1967 |
| Ben Rinnes | 04/11/2022 | |
| benalder50 | 15/03/2022 | |
| alanm | 27/02/2022 | |
| Matt | 26/02/2022 | |
| BigNick | 28/09/2021 | |
| benalder50 | 17/09/2021 | |
| Graham Banks | 14/11/2020 | |
| MuckleG | 22/06/2020 |