Lindston Hill, Pennyvenie Colliery, Patna Hill

 6 June 2024

Where: Lindston Hill, 126m/413', P 41m, Tump, OS 70, NS 376 169; Pennyvenie Colliery, 247m/810', P 32m, Tump, OS 70, NS 484 067' and Patna Hill, 260m/853', P 47m, Tump, OS 70, NS 405 109

A day of sunshine and heavy showers, just right for doing these hills which are situated in the Ayr- Dalmellington corridor. Lindston Hill was a drive up but to do it properly I parked at the foot of the road and walked up the few hundred yards to the top. The highest point is probably in the garden of the house but for the purposes of the bag, the point immediately outside the gate is sufficient.....

I then drove through Dalmellington for Pennyvenie Colliery, an old bing although you wouldn't know it once on it as the vegetation has fully taken over. It was a very pleasant short walk along the ridge and the top provided a good view over Dalmellington and north to the Marilyn Benbeoch.....

I the drove back along the road to Patna and a 40 minute wait in the car while a very heavy rain shower passed over. There was good parking at the start of the track up the hill and then a grassy trod to the obvious high point. Good views down to Patna with the Arran hills just visible on the western horizon. The first picture is the hill from the east, not from the starting point which is from the south....