Beinn Fhada

About Beinn Fhada

Beinn Fhada means 'long mountain' in Gaelic, and the hill is also known by the anglicised form Ben Attow. The name fits its structure: a craggy, undulating ridge that runs south over Sgurr a' Choire Ghairbh before turning east across the broad expanse of the Plaide Mhor to reach the 1,032-metre summit. One short section of downward scrambling interrupts the crest.

Approaches from Morvich to the north-west cover around 7 km with roughly 1,100 metres of ascent once undulations are counted, and Gleann Choinneachain gives a line off to the north-west. Not every guidebook writer has warmed to the hill; some have called it dull.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Beinn Fhada (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 57.221, -5.284. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

Leica RX1250

Record revised

04-Aug-19

Drop measured from

NH030204 · 385 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.

Long-distance paths past this hill

2 waymarked long-distance routes run within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.

Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

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 Beinn Fhada group

2 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Beinn Fhada 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