Summit Register

Hills of Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders

Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders (Scotland) has 4 summits in this register, out of 38 hills of all sizes in the Database of British and Irish Hills. The highest is Hart Fell at 808 m; the median height is 685 m and the median drop 197 m.

On the lists: Donalds 4 · Marilyns 4 · Grahams 3 · Corbetts 1

Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders in brief

Its highest hill, Hart Fell, ranks 429th of the 737 register hills in Scotland. The median hill here is 170.6 m lower than the Scotland median of 855.6 m. The greatest drop belongs not to the highest but to Ettrick Pen, 356.3 m. For two of its 4 hills the nearest higher summit lies in another county entry, such as Hart Fell, whose nearest higher summit is White Coomb. By main list the hills are three Grahams and one Corbett. One has a trig point at or by the summit.

Most prominent

Greatest drop above the key col.

  1. Ettrick Pen
    356.3 m
  2. Hart Fell
    200 m
  3. Andrewhinney Hill
    194 m
  4. Capel Fell
    159.3 m

Most isolated

Distance to the nearest higher summit.

  1. Ettrick Pen
    7.3 km
  2. Hart Fell
    5.2 km
  3. Andrewhinney Hill
    3.6 km
  4. Capel Fell
    2.3 km

All 4 hills by height

No.HillHeightDropLists
1Hart Fell808 m200 mCorbetts, Donalds, MarilynsDrop 200 m
2Ettrick Pen691.8 m356.3 mGrahams, Donalds, MarilynsDrop 356.3 m
3Capel Fell678.3 m159.3 mGrahams, Donalds, MarilynsDrop 159.3 m
4Andrewhinney Hill677.3 m194 mGrahams, Donalds, MarilynsDrop 194 m

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Source: The Database of British and Irish Hills v18.6, CC BY 4.0; counties as recorded in the database. Our own calculations.