Name: | Glimps Holm |
Hill number: | 12263 |
Height: | 32m / 105ft |
Parent (Ma): | none |
County/UA: | Orkney Islands |
Topographical area: | IO02 Mainland-ronaldsay |
SMC/RHB section: | 23: Orkney Islands |
Island: | Mono Tump island |
Class: | Tump (0-99m), SIB (Tu,0,SIB) |
Grid ref: | ND 47335 99027 |
Summit feature: | no feature: ground 12m N of trig point |
Drop: | 32m |
Col: | Sea |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 6 7 (1:25k) 461S |
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.
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 63 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Along road to avoid the 2 BWF on the map only to find one off the road! | tim747 | 15/08/2022 |
19.00 Short walk up from road bend to edge south | vegibagger | 07/08/2022 |
Nice, straightforward little hill. No cows! No barbed wire fences!! Parked at the north end of Churchill Barrier No 3. Through gate then grass up to trig. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 01/08/2022 |
Ground by trig. Grassy field . Easy access from 
Road after admiring Churchill barrier ( parking). | Denise | 29/07/2022 |
Parked by gate on bend. Sort of path. Went round square fenced enclosure to left. Ground towards summit very uneven. Watched wedding photos being taken on beach below main car park. | Minto | 29/07/2022 |
15 minute walk from the car park on the bend at 473987. Misty. | bolton | 01/05/2022 |
Parked in an in-shot near the barrier to the S. Up over grassy field to the summit. | LizH | 02/09/2021 |
from north end of Churchill barrier no. 3. Faint path from gate by the road. | KeithByTheC | 04/09/2020 |
Stroll up to visit the trig. | David Bremner | 05/03/2020 |
Easy from N end of Churchill no3 | Thearlaichdubh | 04/08/2019 |
Parking to south near the barrier, up to fence and then on to trig and HP, good view of rain cloud fast approaching. | PeterD | 01/07/2019 |
Parking area to the E of the hill, hop the fence, stroll to the top. Good views. | Gill | 21/02/2019 |
Small parking area south side road (ND 4743 9883). Sheep pasture to trig pillar at top. | jonglew | 21/02/2019 |
From layby at Barrier. | NormanW | 18/06/2018 |
As Nordicstar and jenx 12/6/2016. Oystercatchers and terns cross with me too - must be time of year! | Crib Goch | 15/06/2018 |
Bagging the trig. | BigJ | 10/05/2018 |
With Bev | simon and co | 02/05/2017 |
Given 15 minutes max to bag this or we'd be late for the ferry. Apparently I was only 10 minutes from lay by to trig and back! | thejackrustles | 25/09/2016 |
Good parking just to south of isle by causeway and field gate. Nice stroll w Jenx on a lovely evening. Nice trig too. | nordicstar | 12/06/2016 |
Terns and oyster catchers at the top all cross at us being there. | jenx | 12/06/2016 |
Easy bag from lay-bye with Jim Bloomer and Tricky Speirs on a sunny morning. | Dugswell2 | 01/06/2014 |
From layby via gate to trig | chrisbien | 01/06/2014 |
Pasture. Even has a trig. | Adrian | 03/05/2014 |
Climbed with John on Orkney Isles holiday | Skerryvore | 31/07/2010 |
RHW | 27/05/2010 | |
Matt | 20/10/2023 | |
Pete R | 20/05/2023 | |
dickiewren | 15/05/2023 | |
vickipotts11 | 21/09/2022 | |
Jill Robertson | 12/08/2022 | |
Andy West | 03/08/2022 | |
RichardM | 29/07/2022 | |
mae | 29/07/2022 | |
Tony S | 02/05/2022 | |
Lorna S | 02/05/2022 | |
Simon Winton | 23/04/2022 | |
PeterAH | 02/09/2021 | |
kathyh | 25/05/2021 | |
phillo | 09/09/2020 | |
GmacT | 22/12/2019 | |
assynt_bob | 04/08/2019 | |
Glenford | 04/08/2019 | |
Alan Whatley | 04/08/2019 | |
PM | 21/07/2019 | |
asbown | 18/06/2019 | |
SteveG | 05/06/2019 | |
benarmine | 05/04/2019 | |
AndyS | 17/07/2018 | |
Tom Mundell | 02/07/2018 | |
Trekking toes | 02/07/2018 |