Beinn Sgritheall NW Top

About Beinn Sgritheall NW Top

Beinn Sgritheall NW Top is a 928-metre Munro Top of Beinn Sgritheall, the highest mountain on the Glenelg peninsula in Scotland's Northwest Highlands. The parent, whose Gaelic name means 'scree mountain' and which has also been anglicised as Ben Sgriol, is a Munro of 974 metres.

The main approaches to Beinn Sgritheall are from Arnisdale on the shores of Loch Hourn or through Gleann Beag to the north, a glen known for its brochs. Sir Hugh Munro, one of the Scottish Mountaineering Club's founder members, judged the view from the summit "perhaps the most beautiful I have seen in Scotland".

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Beinn Sgritheall (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 57.158, -5.582. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is embedded rock 3m ESE of cairn. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

08-Feb-14

Drop measured from

NG835130 · 902 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 Sgritheall NW Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Beinn Sgritheall (974 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 902 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