Summit Register

Graham · Midlothian, Scottish Borders, Scotland

Blackhope Scar

651.8 m

2,138 ftDrop 282 mNT 315 483

Finder: 231 Grahams in Scotland

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmBlackhope Scar651.8Windlestraw Law659.2Dun Rig742.7Broad Law840.1Culter Fell748.4
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmBlackhope Scar651.8Windlestraw Law659.2Dun Rig742.7
Looking north, 9450 km wide, heights ×3036 (method).

Blackhope Scar is a Graham of 651.8 m in Midlothian, Scottish Borders. It is also on the county tops list, as the highest point of its historic county.

It counts towards four lists: Grahams, Donalds, Marilyns and county tops. All four of its nearest neighbours are higher, up to Broad Law at 840.1 m. It is one of only two register hills in the Firth of Forth to the River Tweed region, with Windlestraw Law. All four of its nearest neighbours lie to the south, so it stands at the northern edge of its group. The summit is marked by a trig point.

To scale

Summit651.8 mKey col370 mdrop 282 msea level
Key col NT 348 467, 3.7 km south-east of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

651.8 m678th highest of 737 in Scotland

Drop

282 m463rd of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

7.7 km207th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Windlestraw Law7.7 km south-east
    659.2 m
  2. 2
    Dun Rig17.9 km south
    742.7 m
  3. 3
    Broad Law29.9 km south-west
    840.1 m
  4. 4
    Culter Fell32.5 km south-west
    748.4 m
1234Windlestraw LawDun RigBroad LawCulter FellN10 km

Lists

  • 172nd highest of 231 Grahams
  • 28th highest of the 31 Donalds profiled here
  • 766th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here
  • 47th highest of the 51 County tops profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Windlestraw Law, 659.2 m, 7.7 km south-east
Region
28A: Firth of Forth to the River Tweed
OS map
73
Summit
No feature 20m WSW of trig point
DoBIH no.
1802
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Blackhope Scar

Data: DoBIH v18.6, CC BY 4.0 (method). The highest hills in each country and county