Scotland

Curleywee

DonaldHuMPSimm

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
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

Sunrise
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Daylight
Civil twilight ends

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.

RouteTotal lengthFrom 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

PeakHeightDistance
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