Lowther Hill
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- Height
- 725 m · 2,379 ft
- Prominence
- 37 m
- Grid reference
- NS 89056 10758
- Coordinates
- 55.37825, -3.75249
- County / area
- Dumfries and Galloway/South Lanarkshire
- OS Landranger
- 71 78
- OS Explorer
- 329
- Summit feature
- no feature
- Key col
- NS895112 (688 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 55.378, -3.752. 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
ground in large levelled area.
The recorded summit point is no feature. 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
- 10-Dec-12
- Drop measured from
- NS895112 · 688 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 | over the top |
Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.
Which hill this one belongs to
Lowther Hill is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Green Lowther (732 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 688 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 |
|---|---|---|
| East Mount Lowther | 631 m | 1.4 km |
| Green Lowther | 732 m | 1.6 km |
| Dun Law | 677 m | 3.9 km |
| Well Hill | 606 m | 4.9 km |
| Lousie Wood Law | 619 m | 6.1 km |
| Comb Law | 645 m | 6.3 km |