Dun Rig

About Dun Rig

Dun Rig is the highest hill in the northernmost group of the Manor Hills, a Southern Uplands range south of Peebles. The summit itself is sprawling rather than sharp.

It is most often walked as part of the Dun Rig Horseshoe from the Peebles side, with views out to the Moorfoot Hills, the Pentlands, the remainder of the Manor Hills and the central Borders. It also serves as the historic county top of the old county of Selkirkshire.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Dun Rig (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 55.572, -3.186. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is grassy mound 65m SW of trig point. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Record revised

28-Aug-24

Drop measured from

NT204262 · 501 m

Classification history: Selkirkshire county top moved to hill 1830 Broad Law following the 1891 boundary changes..

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.

The Dun Rig group

4 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Dun Rig as the independent hill at its head.

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