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Beinn a' Chroin East Top

Munro TopSimmMurdo

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Beinn a' Chroin East Top, 940 m, Stirling
Beinn a' Chroin East Top, 940 m, Stirling. Photo by Mick Knapton at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
940.1 m · 3,084 ft
Grid reference
NN 39400 18588
Coordinates
56.33241, -4.59929
County / area
Stirling
OS Landranger
50 56
OS Explorer
OL39N 364N
Summit feature
cairn
Key col
NN 3919 1861 (877 m)

Access rights here

Yes Right to roam: Statutory right of responsible access to most land and inland water.

Yes Wild camping: Wild camping is broadly lawful under the 2003 Act.

Loch Lomond & The Trossachs: seasonal camping byelaws

In defined Camping Management Zones (roughly 1 March – 30 September) camping requires a permit or use of a designated site, despite the general Scottish access right. Zones cover parts of east Loch Lomond, Trossachs lochshores and other honeypot areas.

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 56.332, -4.599. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

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
21-Dec-14
Drop measured from
NN 3919 1861 · 877 m

Classification history: Munro relocated to hill 2925. See Database Notes..

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

Which hill this one belongs to

Beinn a' Chroin East Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to An Caisteal (996 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 877 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

PeakHeightDistance
Beinn a' Chroin 941.4 m 0.6 km
An Caisteal 995.9 m 1.7 km
Beinn Tulaichean 945.8 m 2.5 km
Beinn Chabhair 932.2 m 2.7 km
Cruach Ardrain 1045.9 m 3 km
Stob a' Choin 867.2 m 3.5 km