Bodesbeck Law

About Bodesbeck Law

Bodesbeck Law belongs to the Ettrick Hills in the Southern Uplands, on the border between Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders.

It forms the primary west-south-western end of the ridge running parallel to the A708, a line sometimes called the Bodesbeck Ridge. The hill is a Donald, HuMP and Simm.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Bodesbeck Law (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 55.381, -3.312. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

Leica RX1250

Record revised

07-Sep-13

Drop measured from

NT 1814 1257 · 562.9 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

One waymarked long-distance route runs 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

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

Bodesbeck Law is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Andrewhinney Hill (677 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 563 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