Sgurr an Fhidhleir

About Sgurr an Fhidhleir

The name means "Hill of the Fiddler", and the hill's chief feature is the wall of rock beneath its top: the summit stands directly above a vertical cliff some 500 metres high. It lies in the Coigach district of Ross and Cromarty, in the Northwest Highlands.

Walkers commonly take it together with the adjoining Ben More Coigach. The nearest settlements are Badenscallie, around 5 km west, and others strung along the coast road running south from Achiltibuie; Ullapool is the nearest town of any size.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Sgùrr an Fhidhleir (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 57.997, -5.226. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

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

Abney level/Leica RX1250

Record revised

23-Oct-23

Drop measured from

NC 0970 0490 · 543.6 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

One place 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