Summit Register

Corbett · Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

White Coomb

821.6 m

2,696 ftDrop 375 mNT 163 150

Finder: 4 Corbetts in Dumfries and Galloway

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmWhite Coomb821.6Andrewhinney Hill677.3Hart Fell808Capel Fell678.3Ettrick Pen691.8
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmWhite Coomb821.6Andrewhinney Hill677.3Hart Fell808
Looking north, 2415 km wide, heights ×89 (method).

White Coomb is a Corbett of 821.6 m in Dumfries and Galloway. It is also on the county tops list, as the highest point of its historic county.

It is the 3rd highest Donald. It counts towards four lists: Corbetts, Donalds, Marilyns and county tops. It overtops all four of its nearest neighbours; the tallest of them, Hart Fell, reaches 808 m. Of the register hills in Dumfries and Galloway, only Merrick stands higher.

To scale

Summit821.6 mKey col447 mdrop 375 msea level
Key col NT 151 201, 5.2 km north of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

821.6 m404th highest of 737 in Scotland

Drop

375 m321st of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

8.6 km181st most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Andrewhinney Hill3.6 km east
    677.3 m
  2. 2
    Hart Fell5.2 km west
    808 m
  3. 3
    Capel Fell8.2 km south
    678.3 m
  4. 4
    Ettrick Pen8.3 km south-east
    691.8 m
1234Hart FellCapel FellEttrick PenN5 km

Lists

  • 121st highest of 222 Corbetts
  • 3rd highest of the 31 Donalds profiled here
  • 360th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here
  • 24th highest of the 51 County tops profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Broad Law, 840.1 m, 8.6 km north
Region
28B: The River Tweed to the English Border
OS map
79
Summit
Cairn
DoBIH no.
1832
Map of Britain and Ireland marking White Coomb

Data: DoBIH v18.6, CC BY 4.0 (method). What prominence (drop) means, with real figures