1 June 2020
Participants: Neil and Ben
Where: Bellahouston Park, 50.2m/165', P 30m, Tump, OS 64, NS 549 638.
The tamperers have been busy checking heights across Great Britain and as a result are discovering a whole lot of new Tumps. They are also finding existing Tumps that are in fact below the required prominence and therefore deleting them from the list, Only one of my climbed hills have been "lost" that way, thank goodness. And I now have at the present count 10 new Tumps that I can visit as easy day trips. I did the first of them today- a short drive across Glasgow to Bellahouston Park.
I parked off road on the south side at one of the entrances. This is the view of the high point from the start.....
Bellahouston is one of the largest parks in Glasgow- about 180 acres- and it was certainly very easy to maintain social distancing. The park housed the Empire Exhibition of 1938, the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1982 and numerous pop concerts and other events. We headed firstly (of course) for the high point.....
There was no view from the high point but a short distance to the edge of the trees found a fine view over Mosspark and the south of the city.....
After the summit, we wandered down the north side of the hill to have a look at Charles Rennie Macintosh' House for an Art Lover; from the outside only unfortunately as all public buildings are still closed due to the pandemic.....
Nearby, Ben found a new friend.....
There were also a number of sculptures.....
and some nice trees.....
All in all, it was a very pleasant hour or so. Not a "real" hill but another Tump bagged.
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