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Caer
Caradoc Location: Shropshire Hills Grid Ref: SO 477953 Height: 1506 ft (459 m) Status: Marilyn Notes: A dramatic and craggy little hill standing a couple of miles northeast of Church Stretton in Shropshire. The normal route of approach is by a path rising up the eastern flanks from the south - avoid the direct route from Church Stretton as the lane adjacent to New House Farm is atrocious, but instead take the farm track and bridleway east of Helmeth Hill. The summit is unmarked and any one of half a dozen craggy outcrops could be the highest point. The earthworks on the summit are the remains of an iron age hill fort, claimed to be the last stand of Caractacus in his battles against the Roman invaders (though that battle probably took place elsewhere). The expedition from the town takes just 65 minutes and the reward is a glorious view that takes in the Long Mynd to the west, Wenlock Edge to the east and the Wrekin to the northeast. |
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Caerketton
Hill
Location: Pentland
Hills Notes: Caerketton Hill stands at the northeastern tip of the Pentlands and provides a superb view over the city of Edinburgh. It is an outlier of Allermuir Hill, not quite a mile to the west. Standing directly above the Hillend dry ski slope, it can be ascended from Hillend's car park in about 45 minutes. |
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Cairn Gorm
Location: Scottish
Highlands,
Cairngorms Notes: Cairn Gorm is the sixth highest mountain in Britain. Seen prominently from Aviemore and the Spey valley, it has given its name to the massif as a whole (though properly the Cairngorms are Am Monadh Ruadh, the Red Hills). Cairn Gorm is a gentle dome of a mountain, easily climbed from the base station of the summit railway by an ascent of some 2100 ft. It was formely possible to take the chairlift to the Ptarmigan cafe at 3700 ft and walk the final kilometre to the summit, but since the chairlift was replaced by the railway visitors are no longer allowed access to the summit from the top station. The summit is home to an automatic weather station run by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. Views from the summit are awesome, particularly along the line of the northern corries (as depicted). |
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Cairn of
Claise
Location: Scottish
Highlands,
Mounth Notes: An outlier of Glas Maol, Carn of Claise is situated northeast of its parent mountain and stands on the boundary between Aberdeenshire and Angus. A rise in the general level of the plateau rather than a "proper" mountain, Carn of Claise offers no views as such, just a general vista of a stone-littered grassy void. A stone wall leads away from the summit to the north but peters out. An old track known as the Monega Pass runs past Carn of Claise a hundred metres to the east, and offers a very easy route from Glas Maol to those who wish to visit this summit. |
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Calders
(a.k.a. Brant Fell)
Location: Howgill
Fells |
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Calf,
The
Location: Howgill
Fells |
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Capelaw
Hill
Location: Pentland
Hills Notes: A grassy dome in the northern Pentlands, immediately west of Allermuir Hill, from which there is a path all the way. The top is marked by a wooden post. The ridge to the east looks higher, but this proves to be an optical illusion. A pleasant enough place to be, with a splendid view of the city of Edinburgh, but worth climbing only as part of the Pentlands ridgewalk. |
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Carn
a' Chlamain
Location: Scottish
Highlands,
Mounth |
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Carn a' Choire Bhoidheach (a.k.a. the White Mounth)
Location: Scottish
Highlands,
Mounth |
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Carn
a' Gheoidh
Location: Scottish
Highlands,
Mounth |
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Carn
Aosda
Location: Scottish
Highlands,
Mounth |
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Carn an Tuirc
Location: Scottish
Highlands,
Mounth Notes: A northern outlier of the Glas Maol massif east of the Glenshee ski grounds, Carn an Tuirc is a stony ridge sitting atop grassy flanks. Though pathless it is very easily ascended from the nearby Monega pass between Glen Callater and Cairn of Claise, there being barely two hundred feet of reascent from the latter Munro. Carn an Tuirc has a reasonably good view northwards, down the glen to Braemar with the high tops of the Cairngorms ranged around the northwestern arc, while the Lochnagar massif dominates to the east. |
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Carn
Ghluasaid
Location: Scottish
Highlands,
Kintail Notes: The
easternmost Munro
of those overlooking Loch Cluanie and Glenshiel from the north, Carn
Ghluasaid
commands a superb view to the east, down Glen Morriston towards the
Great
Glen. Ghluasaid is one of the easier Munros to ascend, thanks to an
excellent
stalker's path to the top from the locality of Lundie down in the glen.
The summit is a broad stony plateau, with two summit cairns (some 100
metres
apart) towards the northern edge. In the summit picture we're looking
northwest
to Sgurr nan Conbhairean, of which Ghluasaid is technically an
outlier. |
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Carn
Liath
Location: Scottish
Highlands, Mounth |
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Castle
Crag
Location: Lake
District, North Western Fells |
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Castlelaw
Hill
Location: Pentland
Hills Notes: A dark, heathery dome at the eastern end of the Pentlands, situated about a mile south of Allermuir Hill. A vehicle tracks reaches the summit from the north, ensuring an easy ascent, but Castlelaw Hill lays within the boundaries of an army firing range so it should not be approached when the red flags are flying. The summit features an observation point and a flagpost. The central Pentlands are seen to advantage from here. Should anyone ever compile a list of Marylin tops, Castlelaw Hill would be a typical example. |
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Catbells
Location: Lake
District, North Western Fells |
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Cefn
Eglwysilan
Location: Taff Vale
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Chanctonbury Hill
Location: South
Downs, Sussex |
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Cheriton Hill
Location: North
Downs, Kent Notes: Cheriton Hill is the easternmost Marylin in Britain and is the highest elevation of the Dover and Folkestone downs, though the actual highest point - seen here - lays way back from the lip of the downs in standard farming country. There's no feeling of being at the top of anything and in that respect Cheriton Hill is among the most boring of Britain's high points. The 1:50000 map shows the highest point as a trig pillar adjacent to a reservoir, but the 1:25000 map has a spot height on a road a couple of hundred metres to the west (as depicted). In truth the exact location doesn't really matter because the surrounding terrain is virtually flat. The upside of a visit to Cheriton Hill is that it introduces you to the possibilities of the North Downs proper. France can be seen from the top of the scarp, three quarters of a mile to the south. Cheriton Hill can be walked from Folkestone railway station in about 75 minutes. |
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