An Teallach - Bidein a' Ghlas Thuill

About An Teallach - Bidein a' Ghlas Thuill

Bidein a' Ghlas Thuill is the highest point of An Teallach, the mountain group in Wester Ross whose Gaelic name means 'the forge' or 'the anvil'. The group lies west of Dundonnell Forest, with Loch na Sealga to the south and Little Loch Broom to the north; the second Munro on the crest is Sgurr Fiona at 1,058 m.

An Teallach is built largely of Torridonian sandstone, and like the Torridon hills that give the rock its name it presents terraced flanks cut by steep gullies, with a sharp rocky crest at Sgurr Fiona. The steepest ground, Corrag Bhuidhe, drops towards Loch Toll an Lochain and includes the overhanging pinnacle known as Lord Berkeley's Seat.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on An Teallach (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for Scotland — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Scotland ·check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 57.807, -5.252. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is rocks 6m S of trig point. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level/Leica RX1250

Record revised

09-Jul-22

Drop measured from

NH093728 · 306 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Get food nearby

2 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

The An Teallach - Bidein a' Ghlas Thuill group

8 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with An Teallach - Bidein a' Ghlas Thuill as the independent hill at its head.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks