Scotland

Beinn Sgritheall NW Top

Beinn Sgritheall NW Top, 928 m, Highland
Beinn Sgritheall NW Top, 928 m, Highland. Photo by RH Dengate, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
928 m · 3,045 ft
Grid reference
NG 83496 13141
Coordinates
57.15798, -5.58170
County / area
Highland
OS Landranger
33
OS Explorer
413S
Summit feature
embedded rock 3m ESE of cairn
Key col
NG835130 (902 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.

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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Daylight
Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 57.158, -5.582. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

rock is 20-30cm higher than base of cairn.

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.

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

PeakHeightDistance
Beinn Sgritheall 974 m 0.5 km
Beinn a' Chapuill 759.8 m 1.7 km
Beinn na h-Eaglaise 805 m 2.2 km
Beinn nan Caorach 774 m 3.8 km
Beinn Clachach 642.3 m 5.6 km
Beinn na Caillich 785 m 7.5 km