West Lomond

About West Lomond

West Lomond is the highest of the Lomond Hills and the county top of Fife. Its cone-shaped summit is the remnant of a volcanic plug, standing above an escarpment of Carboniferous sandstone and limestone capped by a quartz-microgabbro sill. The remains of an Iron Age fort lie on the top.

Along with its neighbour East Lomond it is conspicuous from far off, which lies behind one suggested reading of the name as the beacon hills. Most ascents begin at Craigmead car park on the Falkland-Leslie road, already near 300 metres; another line starts far lower at the Bunnet Stane and climbs the steep north slopes of the escarpment to a gap in the cliffs, joining the plateau close to the summit cone.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on West Lomond (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 56.245, -3.297. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is trig point. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit

Record revised

10-Dec-12

Drop measured from

NO155065 · 117 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.

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