Morven

About Morven

Morven, or A' Mhòr Bheinn in Gaelic, is an Aberdeenshire Corbett of some 871 to 872 m, standing within the Cairngorms National Park.

Lord Byron spent part of his childhood in this district and named the hill in his poem When I Roved a Young Highlander; the Mary of those lines was Mary Duff, his first love. The hill's name is also used for one of the houses at Aboyne Academy.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Morven, Aberdeenshire (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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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 57.123, -3.031. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is large cairn. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit

Record revised

30-Apr-17

Drop measured from

NJ187028 · 485 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.

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.

Nearest listed peaks