19 June 2024
Where: Kildoach Hill, 354m/1,162', P 53m, Tump, OS 77, NS 396 040
The Hunter Blair Monument is Craigengower Hill south of Straiton with Craigengower Hill being a top of the Tump Kildoach Hill. I parked opposite the cemetery where the track to the Monument started.....
It went through a field then a wood before going very steeply up to the Monument.....
The 20m high granite Monument commemorates Lt. Col. James Hunter Blair MP who died in the Crimean War. It is an impressive obelisk seen from miles around......
There was a tremendous view down over Straiton as far as the Arran hills on the distant horizon.....
Kildoach Hill wasn't far away and only a few metres higher......
But it involved a walk over rough, boggy ground. On the way back, I followed an ATV track which took a circuitous route but avoided the tussocks and bog. There were a number of possible high points but I was confident that I found the correct one. There was a good view south to the Galloway hills; the only downside was that there was a wind farm close by.....
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