Uamh Bheag

About Uamh Bheag

Uamh Bheag is the highest hill of the Glen Artney Hills, standing immediately south of the Highland Boundary Fault in the Central Lowlands. The summit is twin-topped, the lower eastern top carrying the trig point.

Which of the two was higher stayed unsettled until 2017, when a survey showed the west top to be about 2.4 m the taller, resolving where the Donald and Graham status belonged. The true summit is marked by a cairn with a face carved into a wooden fencepost projecting from it. The hill is usually taken together with neighbouring Beinn nan Eun from Glen Artney.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Uamh Bheag (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 56.281, -4.116. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is ground near cairn and fence junction. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica NA730/Leica RX1250/Leica GS15

Record revised

02-Aug-18

Drop measured from

NN660137 · 341 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.

The Uamh Bheag group

One other listed summit sits in the same prominence group, with Uamh Bheag 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