Beinn a' Bhuird South Top

About Beinn a' Bhuird South Top

Beinn a' Bhuird South Top is a subsidiary summit of Beinn a' Bhùird, a Munro of the Cairngorm range in Scotland. Standing at 1,178.5 metres in Aberdeenshire, within the Cairngorms National Park, it is classified as a Munro Top, a Simm and a Murdo.

Braemar is the closest village to the parent mountain, and the usual approach by car runs from there along the Linn of Dee road on the south bank of the River Dee, then back along the north side to the car park at Allanaquoich, where camping is permitted — a drive of roughly ten miles. Watson (1975) argued that the mountain would be better named Beinn Bòrd, meaning table hill, noting how local Scottish Gaelic speakers pronounced the name.

In 2006 a glider pilot from the Deeside Gliding Club came down on the hillside of Beinn a' Bhùird and spent 24 hours trapped in his aircraft before the RAF located him.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Beinn a' Bhùird (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 57.070, -3.499. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is granite slab. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica NA320/Leica RX1250

Record revised

11-Jul-21

Drop measured from

NO 0889 9912 · 1129 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

3 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Beinn a' Bhuird South Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Beinn a' Bhuird (1,196 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 1,129 m.

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