Curleywee
2 classifications here — HuMP and Simm — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 674.4 m · 2,213 ft
- Prominence
- 119.6 m
- Grid reference
- NX 45471 76952
- Coordinates
- 55.06296, -4.42125
- County / area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Region
- Carrick and Galloway
- OS Landranger
- 77
- OS Explorer
- 319
- Summit feature
- cairn
- Key col
- NX 4506 7683 (554.8 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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Computed astronomically for 55.063, -4.421. 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
- obvious summit/Leica RX1250
- Record revised
- 11-Dec-22
- Drop measured from
- NX 4506 7683 · 554.8 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 | Total length | From summit |
|---|---|---|
| Southern Upland Way | 348 km | 1.5 km |
Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.
Which hill this one belongs to
Curleywee is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Lamachan Hill (717 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 555 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Lamachan Hill | 716.7 m | 1.9 km |
| Millfore | 657 m | 2.8 km |
| Larg Hill | 676 m | 3.2 km |
| Craignaw | 646 m | 6.4 km |
| Dungeon Hill | 620.9 m | 8.1 km |
| Meikle Millyea | 748.6 m | 8.3 km |