Beinn a' Bhuird · Beinn a' Bhuird North Top

About Beinn a' Bhuird

Beinn a' Bhùird is a Cairngorms Munro whose name has been disputed: Watson (1975) argued for Beinn Bòrd, 'table hill', noting that local Gaelic speakers said Paing Bòrd, with older residents still using Painna Bòrd.

Braemar in Aberdeenshire is the nearest settlement and the usual approach by car runs through it — out on the Linn of Dee road along the south side of the River Dee, then back along the north bank to the car park at Allanaquoich, where camping is permitted. That is about 16 km from Braemar. In 2006 a glider pilot from Deeside Gliding Club crashed on the hillside and spent 24 hours trapped in the aircraft before the RAF found 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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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 57.088, -3.499. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica RX1250

Record revised

29-Mar-23

Drop measured from

NJ 0332 0045 · 739.8 m

Classification history: summit measurement 1196.0m.

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

The Beinn a' Bhuird group

3 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Beinn a' Bhuird 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