Milldown

Milldown
Highest point
Elevation748 m (2,454 ft)
Prominence90 m (300 ft)
ListingTu,Sim,D,sHu,GT,DN
Naming
English translation
Scottish Gaelic: Brown, Round Hill [page needed]
Geography
LocationDumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Parent rangeRhinns of Kells, Galloway Hills, Southern Uplands
OS gridNX 51128 83949
Topo mapOS Landranger 77

Milldown is a hill in the Rhinns of Kells, a sub-range of the Galloway Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It is located immediately north of Meikle Millyea – between these two hills lie the Lochans of Auchniebut, a series of small water bodies at an approximate elevation of 650 m – possibly the highest permanent water bodies in the Southern Uplands. As well as this, the hill is also flanked on its SW side by forest plantation - possibly the highest planted commercial forestry in the Southern Uplands. Like most of its neighbours, it is most easily climbed from the east at Forrest Lodge.

Subsidiary SMC Summits

SummitHeight (m)Listing
Millfire716DT,sSim

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Milldown". Hill-bagging.co.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  2. ↑ Chris Crocker. "Database of British and Irish Hills: user guide". Hills-database.co.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  3. ↑ Maxwell, Sir Herbert Eustace (1887). Studies In The Topography Of Galloway (PDF). Edinburgh: David Douglas – via National Library of Scotland.
  4. ↑ "Place-Names of the Galloway Glens".
  5. ↑ "Database of British and Irish Hills: User guide".
  6. ↑ "Millfire".