Scotland's Grahams

An Cruachan (705m) at NH09 sits between Loch Mullardoch and Glen Strathfarrar, a large-cairned grass-and-rock summit in the broad bealach country of the central Highlands. The view from the cairn stretches across Mullardoch's long mirror to the An Riabhachan ridge and east toward the great inland forests of Affric. This is heart-of-the-Highlands walking — empty, lonely and big-skied.

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An Ruadh-mheallan (671m) — the red lump — is a striking Torridonian sandstone hill in NG86, set above the road from Diabaig and looking straight across Loch Torridon to Beinn Alligin. The summit boulder caps a dramatic terraced cone of red sandstone that glows in evening light. Despite its modest height, the panorama south to the Liathach skyline is one of the finest in Wester Ross.

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An Stac (717m) — the stack — is a steep-sided peak at NM86 north of Loch Eilt, set between the Rois-Bheinn group to the west and Sgurr Thuilm to the east. Its name reflects the conical profile when seen from the A830 Mallaig road. Two prominent boulders mark the airy summit, which looks out over Loch Beoraid in deep shadow below, the islands of Eigg and Rum out west, and the Glenfinnan Munros stacked to the north-east.

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Andrewhinney Hill (677m) rises above the Moffat Water valley in the NT11 square, the high point of the long Bodesbeck-to-Bodesbeck ridge that bounds the Grey Mare's Tail country on its east side. The cairn stands at the apex of a smooth grass ridge with the cliffs of Capel Linn falling away to the south-west and a view over the Devil's Beef Tub to Hartfell.

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Aodann Chleireig (662m) — the cleric's face — sits above the Cona Glen in the NM98 square south of Loch Eil. Its rocky outcrop summit looks across to the Streaps and Sgurr Thuilm, with the Corran Narrows visible to the south on a clear day.

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A flat-topped Angus moorland hill on the watershed between Glen Prosen and Glen Isla. The summit trig point looks across a sea of heather toward Mount Blair to the west and the bigger Mounth Munros north of Glen Clova.

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Ballencleuch Law (691m) is the highest of the western Lowther Hills, set in the NS90 square above the Dalveen Pass. The name comes from old Scots, meaning the law of the cleuch of the township. The trig stands beside a fence with the radar globe of Lowther Hill rising eastward across the pass.

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Beinn a' Chaisgein Beag (682m) — the small forbidding hill — lies deep in the Letterewe Wilderness, set in the NG96 square between Loch Maree and Loch a' Bhraoin. It is paired with the larger Beinn a' Chaisgein Mor across the watershed. Its summit outcrop looks out over the Fisherfield Forest, one of the remotest tracts of land in Britain.

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The most southerly of the three Paps of Jura — the smallest and least visited, but still a defining feature of the Sound of Islay skyline. Steep slopes of pale quartzite tumble straight to sea level.

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The hill of the horse stands on the Glenelg peninsula opposite Skye, overlooking the Sound of Sleat and the mouth of Loch Hourn. Its position gives one of the best low-summit panoramas in the west, with the Cuillin filling the horizon and Beinn Sgritheall rising to the south.

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A flat-topped Torridonian Graham north of Loch Maree, famous for the bright white quartzite paving stones that cover its summit. The view across to Slioch and Beinn Eighe is one of the finest in the area.

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Beinn a' Chlachain, also called Meall an Doireachain (625m), sits on the Applecross peninsula in the NG74 square, looking west over the Inner Sound to Raasay and Skye. The Torridonian sandstone summit rock perches at the end of a long, broad ridge dotted with lochans, and the sea panorama is one of the finest of any Graham in the country. Access is from the single-track road over the Bealach na Bà.

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Beinn a' Chuirn (603m) is a small but shapely Graham above Glen Beag, sitting at NG87 in the rough Glenelg hinterland east of Loch Duich. A weathered trig pillar caps the summit, with views east into the Five Sisters of Kintail, south to Beinn Sgritheall and west across the Sound of Sleat to the Sleat ridge. The hill is reached through some of the most overlooked country in Wester Ross, the broch-rich glens of Gleann Beag and Gleann Mor providing the only access.

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Beinn a' Mhanaich (709m) — the monk's hill — sits at NS26 in the Luss range above Glen Fruin, just north of Beinn Chaorach and east of Loch Long. A grass-and-bilberry cap with a small cairn gives views east over Loch Lomond to Ben Lomond, west to the Cobbler and Beinn Narnain, and south over the Faslane base to the Firth of Clyde. The hill takes its name from an old chapel-of-ease that once stood at the foot of its slopes.

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Beinn a' Mheadhoin (611m), the middle hill, lies above Loch Mullardoch in the NH22 square, the heart of the Affric-Cannich country. A prominent rocky outcrop on the north side of the walker's line crowns the top, set on a long, rolling ridge wedged between Glen Affric and Glen Cannich. Ancient pine and birch on the lower flanks give the approach a particularly atmospheric character.

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Beinn a' Mhuinidh (689m) is the mossy hill that overlooks the head of Loch Maree, set in the NH06 square at the edge of the Letterewe Forest. Its sandstone north face plunges 400m to the loch in the spectacular Waterfall Buttress, a venue for early Scottish rock pioneers. From the summit the view stretches across to Slioch and out west to An Teallach.

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Twin-summited ridge in Coigach with the same Torridonian sandstone character as Stac Pollaidh next door, but a fraction of the visitors. Sits between Loch Lurgainn and Loch Bad a' Ghaill with the Summer Isles spread to the west.

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Beinn Bhalgairean (636m) stands above Glen Strae in the NN21 square, west of Dalmally where Loch Awe carves the country between the Trossachs and Argyll. A quartz capstone marks the broad summit and on clear afternoons Cruachan, Ben Lui and the head of Loch Awe spread out in turn. The hill is reached most commonly from the B8077 above Glen Strae and provides a quiet alternative to the bigger Munros on its doorstep.

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The high point of north Arran's quieter granite ridge, looking across to Goatfell and out over the Kilbrannan Sound to Kintyre. A steep grassy pull from the west coast of the island.

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A modest Graham above the north shore of Loch Sunart, tucked between Strontian and Glen Tarbert. Despite the unassuming name it gives a sweeping panorama south over Sunart and across to the Morvern hills.

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Beinn Bheag (668m) — the little hill — perches above the upper reaches of the Inverbroom road in NH08, a small sandstone summit overshadowed by An Teallach to the south-west. The small cairn looks across the Strath More glen to the Fannichs and west to the great Torridonian cliffs of An Teallach's northern flanks. A quiet vantage on a popular touring route.

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Beinn Bheag (619m), the small hill, rises above Loch Eck in the NS19 square on the Cowal peninsula, between the Holy Loch and Strachur. Its tiny summit cairn perches on a grass-and-heather knoll at the southern end of the long Glenbranter forest ridges, and the view stretches over Loch Eck to Argyll's Bowling Green hills. Forestry plantations cover much of the lower hill, with the open top tagged onto a network of forest roads.

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Beinn Bhreac (680m) sits east of Loch Lomond in the NN32 square, a flecked greenstone dome above Glen Luss whose Gaelic name means simply speckled hill. With 530m of prominence it is the high point of a quiet quarter of the Luss Hills, looking across the loch to the Arrochar peaks and southward over the Vale of Leven toward Glasgow.

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Beinn Bhreac, also known as Meall Dubh (666m), is a twin-topped moorland mass north of Strath Vaich in the NH28 square, deep in the wide Easter Ross hinterland. The cairn caps the western top with a second high point — the black lump of Meall Dubh — to the east. The view sweeps north over the trackless Freevater country toward Seana Bhraigh.

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Beinn Chaorach (713m) — the sheep hill — rises at NS28 between Glen Fruin and Loch Long, the southernmost Graham of the Luss Hills group. Its grassy summit gives a superb low-altitude vantage: down-river over the Clyde naval base at Faslane, west to the Cobbler and the Arrochar Alps, and east across Loch Lomond toward Ben Lomond itself. As one of the closest Grahams to Glasgow it sees frequent traffic from west-end walking clubs.

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Beinn Clachach (642m) — the stony hill — is a rough Lochalsh top in the NG81 square, looking north over the Sound of Sleat toward Knoydart. The summit pairing of rock and small cairn sits above Loch nan Eun, with views west to Skye that include the Cuillin on a clear day.

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Beinn Damhain (684m) — the hill of the stag — is a pyramidal schist peak above Glen Falloch, set in the NN21 square west of Crianlarich. Its steep northern face plunges over 400m to the West Highland Way in the glen below. The summit looks east to Beinn a' Chleibh and west toward Beinn Bhuidhe.

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A red-flanked Graham on the western edge of Skye's Minginish peninsula, looking out across Loch Brittle to the Atlantic. Often climbed as a wet-weather alternative when the Cuillin are out of condition.

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Beinn Dearg Mhor (709m) at NG58 is the highest of the Red Hills above the Strathaird peninsula on south Skye, a granite dome rising opposite the gabbro Black Cuillin across Loch Slapin. Its red weathered scree contrasts with the dark Cuillin rock visible across the loch. An inclined summit slab marks the highest point, with a remarkable view across Loch Scavaig to the Cuillin ridge and out to Rum, Eigg and Canna.

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Beinn Dhorain (628m) is the eastern stronghold of the lonely Sutherland Grahams in the NC92 square, set back from the coast above the Strath of Kildonan. The cairn rises on a heathery dome looking down to the Helmsdale river and across the Flow Country to Morven of Caithness. Despite the apparently modest height the all-round emptiness gives the summit the feel of a far bigger hill.

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Beinn Direach (688m) — the straight hill — is a quartzite ridge in the remote moorland west of Loch Choire, set in the NC43 square deep in Sutherland's Flow Country. The summit, marked by a slabby embedded outcrop, looks out across an extraordinary emptiness of bog pools and lochans toward Ben Klibreck.

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Beinn Donachain (651m) is the southern guardian of Glen Strae in the NN13 square, north-east of Dalmally. A rocky outcrop marks the top of a steep cone with the Bridge of Orchy Munros to the north and Loch Awe spread south in fine arcs of water.

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Beinn Eich (701m) is the prominent cone of the Luss Hills above the western shore of Loch Lomond, set in the NS39 square. The name — hill of the horse — refers to the high pony track that once crossed its eastern shoulder. As the most accessible of the group from Glen Luss, it forms a fine short day or the first peak in the classic horseshoe with Doune Hill and Beinn Lochain.

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Beinn Fhada (702m) is a long whaleback ridge on the Morvern peninsula in the NM54 square, rising from the head of Loch Tearnait. The name means the long hill in Gaelic and is shared by larger relatives in Kintail and Glen Coe; this Morvern version is quieter and seldom climbed. Views run south to Garbh Beinn and west across the Sound of Mull to Tobermory.

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Beinn Gaire (666m) is a remote moorland peak in the Moidart hinterland of the NM77 square, set deep in the trackless country between Glenfinnan and Loch Shiel. Its 320m of re-ascent and the absence of paths make it one of the more committing Grahams of the west. The boulder cairn looks south over Loch Shiel to Beinn Resipol and west toward the Sound of Arisaig.

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Beinn Ghobhlach (634m), the forked peak, dominates the Scoraig peninsula in the NH05 square between Little Loch Broom and Loch Broom itself. The twin tops of Torridonian sandstone give the hill its name and a strikingly sea-girt feel, with the Summer Isles, An Teallach and the open Minch in view from the cairn. The walk-in from Badrallach makes it one of the most maritime Grahams in the country.

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Beinn Lochain (702m) rises from the head of Loch Goil in Argyll's Cowal peninsula, its NN16 summit a steep cone wedged between Lochgoilhead and Hell's Glen. The name simply means hill of the small loch, a reference to the lochan tucked into its eastern corrie. The view stretches across the Arrochar Alps to Beinn Bheula and out over the Clyde sea-lochs toward Bute.

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A quiet Graham at the heart of the Morvern peninsula, looking out across Loch Sunart to Ardnamurchan and inland to Loch Arienas. The summit is rarely visited and the moorland around it carries one of the largest red deer populations in Argyll.

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Beinn Mheadhoin (664m) — the middle hill — rises above Strathconon in the NH24 square, a sandstone outlier west of Garve. The rock rib just west of its small cairn provides the truest high point, looking out over wild Strathconon to An Sidhean and the headwaters of the Meig.

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Beinn Mheadhonach (715m) — the middle hill — sits at NN01 north of Loch Etive between the Glen Kinglass corridor and the Bridge of Orchy hills. Its modest 252m re-ascent reflects a position wedged between higher Munros, but the cairn-marked summit offers a fine sightline along Loch Etive's long sea finger and across to the Cruachan horseshoe. The name (mheadhonach = middle) recurs across Scotland; this one is the Argyll example.

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The highest hill in the Cowal peninsula, rising in a long grassy ridge between Glen Massan and Glen Lean and forming the centrepiece of the Argyll Forest Park. The summit panorama takes in the Holy Loch, Bute, Arran and the Arrochar Alps.

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Beinn Mhor (620m) is the proud high point of South Uist in the NF80 square, a long gneiss spine running north-south above the loch-pitted Atlantic moor. The rock summit sits at the head of an exposed kilometre-long crest where the ridge narrows to little more than a sheep walk between rough cliffs. On clear days the view runs from St Kilda far out to the Cuillin of Skye.

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Beinn Molurgainn (688m) is a steep grassy hill at the head of Glen Creran, set in the NN04 square between Beinn Sgulaird and the Lairig Dhomhain. The Gaelic name is obscure but probably refers to a small swelling on the ridge. Its position gives a fine outlook south down Loch Creran and north to Bidean nam Bian.

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The other half of the Kyle Rhea Graham pair, sitting east of Sgurr na Coinnich above the Glenelg-Kylerhea narrows. A short, sharp grassy cone with a fine outlook over the Sound of Sleat to Knoydart.

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The most prominent Red Cuillin from the Broadford side — a rounded scree dome with a Bronze Age cairn on top. Steep, loose and deeply unloved by everyone who's ever climbed it, but the view across to the Black Cuillin is exceptional.

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Beinn na Cille (652m) — the hill of the church — rises steeply out of Glen Tarbert in the NM85 square, dividing Loch Sunart from Loch Linnhe. The rocky top gives a wide sweep east to Ben Nevis and south down Loch Linnhe to the Corran Narrows.

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Beinn na Cloiche (645m) — the stone hill — sits in the NN26 square above the Allt Cam Ban, between Loch Treig and the Lairig Leacach. A cairn on a quartzite outcrop marks the top, with the Easains and Stob Coire Easain rising to the north and Stob Ban's pale flank gleaming nearby.

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Beinn na Feusaige (626m), the bearded hill, stands above Achnasheen in the NH05 square at the divide between Glen Carron and Strath Bran. Its rough quartzite outcrop summit overlooks the railway line and is a fine vantage for the Torridon peaks ranged to the north-west. The hill takes its name from the trailing grasses that cling to its small crags.

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A rolling Perthshire Graham on the watershed between Glen Almond and Glen Quaich. Open sheep grazing country — easy walking in clear weather, demanding to navigate in cloud. The 729 m top sits in the fife perthshire; reckon on 13 km and 598 m of ascent for the round trip.

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Beinn na Gucaig (616m) rises directly above the village of Onich in the NN06 square, looking across the Corran Narrows to Ardgour and south down Loch Linnhe. The bare ground at the summit gives a fine seat for taking in the Ballachulish Munros and the Pap of Glencoe. Its prominence is unusually high for a hill of this stature, making the climb feel more substantial than the bald figures suggest.

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A craggy Torridonian Graham above Loch Damh, sitting between the giants of Liathach and Beinn Damh. The hill of the church takes its name from the chapel-shaped summit block — a striking little tower of red sandstone.

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Beinn na Muice (693m) — hill of the pig — is a quiet heather summit at the head of Strath Bran, set in the NH24 square between Achanalt and Loch Fannich. The trig pillar marks the highest point of a long undulating ridge that drops sharply to the railway in Strath Bran. Outlook north is dominated by the great Fannich Munros.

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Beinn na Sroine (635m), the "hill of the nose," forms a long ridge above Glen Strae in the NN23 square, between Dalmally and Loch Etive. Its summit rock looks west over the gathering point where Strae, Orchy and Lochy waters meet, with Ben Cruachan rising massively to the south-west. A rough estate track from the B8077 gives the most direct line, though the descent off the broad shoulders is often slower than the climb.

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The hill of the birds rises above Loch Glass at the head of Strathrusdale in Easter Ross, paired closely with the Corbett Beinn Tharsuinn to the north. A rounded summit with broad shoulders and a small cairn marking the centre of the dome.

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Beinn nan Lus (709m) — the hill of the herbs — at NN13 stands in the wedge of country between Loch Etive and Glen Kinglass, surrounded by famous Munros like Stob Coir' an Albannaich and Meall nan Eun. The summit cairn perches above the head of Glen Kinglass with sightlines south-west down Etive's long inlet and east toward the snow-streaked Cruachan tops. A rarely-climbed Graham hidden by giants.

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Beinn nan Ramh (711m) — the hill of the oars — lies at NH13 in the Letterewe-Fisherfield hinterland east of Loch Maree, surrounded by far better-known Munros and Corbetts. Its 386m re-ascent secures Graham status on a sandstone shoulder above empty wilderness. The cairn looks west across Loch a' Bhraoin's sister lochans to An Teallach's pinnacled crest and north toward the Fannichs.

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Beinn Ruadh (664m) — the red hill — is a wedge-shaped summit on the Cowal peninsula in NS18, standing between Loch Eck and Loch Long. Its 502m of prominence makes it a striking landmark on the Argyll skyline. The flat-topped rock summit looks east across the Firth of Clyde to the cones of Arran and west into the heart of the Argyll Forest Park.

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The most easterly of the three Paps of Jura, an unmistakable white quartzite cone seen from miles across the Sound of Jura. Less visited than Beinn an Oir but the classic Paps traverse needs it; alone it provides one of the most distinctive island summits in Scotland.

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Beinn Suidhe (676m) — the seat hill — sits south of Loch Tulla in the NN24 square, a satellite of the bigger Bridge of Orchy peaks. Its 280m of re-ascent gives it a clear individuality and the cairn looks across Loch Dochard to Ben Starav and the wild upper reach of Glen Kinglass. A natural pairing with Beinn nan Aighenan or as a stand-alone afternoon outing.

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A near-perfect conical peak in central Mull, isolated between Glen Forsa and Glen More and visible for miles as a steep grassy cone. Its 430m of prominence makes Beinn Talaidh the dominant landmark of inner Mull, with Ben More away to the west and Dun da Ghaoithe shouldering up to the east.

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Beinn Tharsuinn (710m) — the transverse hill — at NH41 sits north of the Cromarty Firth between Strath Rusdale and Glen Glass, in the rolling Easter Ross uplands. Several Scottish hills share this name (transverse to a glen line); this is the eastern-Highland example. The small summit cairn looks over Loch Morie and east to the Moray Firth coast, with Ben Wyvis as the dominant skyline to the south-west.

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Beinn Tharsuinn (692m) at NH60 is the rough crossways-hill of Strathrory in Easter Ross, lying between Alness and Bonar Bridge above the headwaters of the River Rory. With 353m of clean re-ascent it stands well clear of the surrounding moors and its long east-facing scarp catches the morning sun. The summit is bare-ground peat above a fringe of heathery shoulders.

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Belig (701m) is the eastern outlier of Skye's Red Cuillin, a steep gabbro-and-granite cone above Glen Sligachan in the NG54 square. Linked by sharp ridges to Garbh-bheinn and Glas Bheinn Mhor, it forms part of the airy traverse that ends at Sgurr nan Each. Looking west the Black Cuillin dominate; eastward the eye runs out over Loch Slapin to the Strathaird hills.

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Ben Armine (705m) at NC69 is the high point of the Armine Forest, one of the most isolated upland sections in central Sutherland. The cairned summit lies on a long flat ridge above the Black Water and looks east over the empty moorland toward Helmsdale and west to Ben Klibreck. The Armine Lodge bothy at the foot of the hill is a useful base for the multi-day trek required to reach this Graham.

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Ben Aslak (609m) is a twin-topped Graham rising directly above the Kylerhea narrows on the southern Skye peninsula. Sitting in the NG75 square, its rocky knoll summit looks across the tidal strait to Glenelg, with the Knoydart peaks filling the southern horizon and the Cuillin visible to the west on clear days. The hill marks the watershed between Loch na Dal and the Kylerhea river, and feels far wilder than its modest height suggests. The nearest settlement is Broadford on Skye.

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Ben Buie (718m) rises above Loch Spelve at NM60 in the south-east corner of Mull, a peridotite knob that earns its yellow-cream colour from weathered ultramafic rock. Its 515m of clean prominence makes it the most striking summit east of Ben More on the island, and the view from the cairn takes in the Sound of Mull, Lismore lighthouse, Cruachan and the Paps of Jura. Walkers based at Lochbuie or Croggan have it largely to themselves — Ben More steals the visiting crowds.

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Ben Cleuch (721m) is the highest of the Ochil Hills, rising from the NN90 escarpment behind Tillicoultry and Dollar. A trig pillar set in a sunken windshelter crowns a tussocky plateau with views south across the Forth meanders to Edinburgh and the Pentlands, and north to the Highland line at Ben Vorlich and Schiehallion. As county top of Clackmannanshire it draws Hillfoots locals on weekday evenings, yet wind funnelling up the Mill Glen scarp still surprises first-timers.

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The bulky parent peak of the Coigach group, rising in a sweep of sandstone terraces straight from the sea at Achiltibuie. The summit windshelter sits at the western end of a long ridge that stretches to Sgurr an Fhidhleir's celebrated nose — one of the finest mountain edges in the north-west.

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The defining peak of the Trossachs, rising above the south shore of Loch Katrine in twin rocky summits. Walter Scott's hill — name-checked in The Lady of the Lake and visible from every Trossachs viewpoint.

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Binnein Shios (667m) — the eastern peak — is the lower of the two Binnein hills on the south side of Loch Laggan in NN48. Its pointed profile is one of the recognisable landmarks of the A86 road and the boulder cairn looks across the loch to the cliffs of Creag Meagaidh. A natural pairing with Binnein Shuas just to the west.

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A striking schist crag overlooking Lochan na h-Earba, paired with the slimmer Binnein Shios on the north side of Loch Laggan. The south face of Binnein Shuas is one of the best rock-climbing venues in central Scotland, with the famous Ardverikie Wall its showpiece.

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Biod an Fhithich (645m) — the raven's peak — is a sharp little summit in the NG91 square above Mam Ratagan, overlooking Loch Duich and the Five Sisters of Kintail. The cairn sits on a rocky perch with a memorable view across to Faochag and the long ridge of the Sisters.

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Blackcraig Hill (700m) is the highest of the upland sheep walks east of Dalmellington, set in the NS60 square on the Ayrshire-Dumfries-Galloway boundary. Its dark heather slopes earned the name and give an unmistakable silhouette from the A713. The trig pillar on the broad top looks out across the Carsphairn hills to Cairnsmore of Carsphairn and west to Arran.

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Blackhope Scar (651m) is the second summit of the Moorfoot Hills in the NT34 square, just over a kilometre north of Windlestraw Law. The high point is unmarked save for a slight rise in featureless grass, but the view east into the Tweed and Lammermuir country is unexpectedly grand from such a quiet top.

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Blath Bhalg (640m) — the warm bag — is an eastern Perthshire hill in the NO06 square, between Bridge of Cally and the Glen Shee road. A small cairn marks the top of a managed grouse moor with sweeping views east to the Strathmore lowlands and north into Glen Shee.

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Burach (607m) is a quiet rolling Graham set in the moorland country between Glen Urquhart and Glen Affric, in the NH38 square south-west of Drumnadrochit. Its long flat back overlooks the RSPB Corrimony reserve and the chain of lochans on Carn na Saobhaidhe, with the Affric Munros lifting the horizon to the south. The summit cairn perches on a rocky boss above peat hags, and on a clear day the eye can follow the Great Glen all the way to Ben Wyvis.

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Cairnsmore of Fleet (711m) is the granite dome at NX50 that dominates the lower Cree valley and gives the surrounding National Nature Reserve its name. The hill features in John Buchan's "The Thirty-Nine Steps" — Hannay's flight across "the moors of Galloway" took him over these very flanks. From the summit cairn the view stretches over the Wigtown peninsula to the Solway, the Isle of Man and on the clearest days as far as Snowdonia.

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Capel Fell (678m) marks the watershed between Ettrick and Eskdalemuir in the NT10 square, a smooth Southern Uplands hump on the line of the Scottish-English county boundary. The Southern Upland Way crosses just east of the top and a single fence post marks the highest ground above a sea of grass and rush. The view spans Eskdalemuir Observatory to the Galloway hills.

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Carn a' Chaochain (706m) — the cairn of the streamlet — at NH23 sits in the empty moorland between Glen Affric and Glen Moriston, west of Tomich. The cairn-topped summit looks over the great Affric forest and lochs to the Five Sisters of Kintail, with the Mullardoch Munros stacked behind. The hill is rarely climbed despite proximity to the National Nature Reserve — most attention goes to the bigger Affric Munros nearby.

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Carn a' Choin Deirg (701m) is a quartzite-capped hill in the rolling moors north of Glen Cassley, set in the NH39 square between Strath Oykel and Loch Shin. The name means cairn of the red dog. With its 319m of prominence it stands clear of its neighbours and earns a trig pillar on the long summit ridge.

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Carn a' Ghille Chearr (710m) — the cairn of the wrong lad — is the high point of the Cromdale Hills at NJ13, a broad granite ridge between Strathspey and Glenlivet. The trig pillar perches on a long whaleback of heather and granite, looking down on the Battle of Cromdale ground of 1690 and across Speyside to Cairn Gorm and Bynack More. The ridge offers some of the loneliest grouse-moor walking outside the central Cairngorms.

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A stony rise on the high ground between Loch Choire and Loch Naver in central Sutherland, looking south toward Ben Klibreck and north across the great empty interior. The summit is unprepossessing but the position commands an enormous sweep of the Flow Country.

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Carn Breac (677m) — the speckled cairn — stands above the south side of Loch Gowan in NH04, on the watershed between Achnasheen and Glen Carron. Its 392m of prominence gives it a fine independent character, and the rocky outcrop summit looks straight across to the Achnashellach Munros and west toward the saw-edge of Maol Chean-dearg.

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Carn Glas-choire (659m) — the cairn of the grey corrie — is a broad, open Monadhliath outlier in the NH89 square, north-east of Carrbridge. The cairn and ground-trig sit on a vast peat plateau looking out over Speyside to Cairn Gorm, with the Moray Firth a pale line to the north.

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Carn Gorm (677m) is the blue cairn of Strathglass, a quiet NH33 summit on the long ridge dividing Glen Cannich from Glen Strathfarrar. Set well back from the western Munros, it offers an introvert's panorama over Loch Mullardoch and across the deep cleft of Cannich toward the An Riabhachan group.

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Carn Loch nan Amhaichean (697m) is a remote moorland hill north of Strathvaich, set in the NH47 square between Loch Vaich and the Aultguish hills. The name means cairn of the loch of the necks — a reference to the curving lochan below its eastern face. Few hills in the Highlands feel as removed from the road, and the summit cairn looks out across an unbroken sweep of peatland.

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Carn Mhic an Toisich (678m) — the cairn of Mackintosh's son — rises above the south side of Glen Moriston in NH31 near Invermoriston. It is a sprawling moorland hill on the rolling watershed between the Great Glen and Strathfarrar, with a flat summit cairn looking south to the Affric Munros and north over Loch Ness.

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Carn na Breabaig (679m) is tucked above the head of Loch Monar in NH06, deep in one of the most awkward-to-reach corners of the Central Highlands. The name suggests the hill of the kick, perhaps from a rocky step on the upper slopes. It looks straight down the loch toward Sgurr na Lapaich and gives a Munro-baggers' view across one of Scotland's quietest skylines.

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Carn na Coinnich (673m) — the meeting cairn — stands on the north side of Strathconon in the NH35 square, the trig pillar topping a broad moorland summit that looks east to the Black Isle and west toward the Munros of An Riabhachan. A natural pairing with Meall na Faochaig just to the west forms a fine long ridge day.

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Carn na h-Easgainn (617m), the eel cairn, is a broad heathery dome on the moorland east of Inverness, in the NH74 square. The summit is essentially unmarked save for a small mound of stones, and the appeal is the immense view across the Moray Firth, the Black Isle and the eastern Cairngorms. It is one of the closest Grahams to Inverness and a popular evening walk for locals in summer.

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Quiet Graham in the Findhorn hills north of the Cairngorms. Long approaches and rolling moorland make this one for solitude-seekers, with red grouse and golden plover for company on the way to the cairn of the three lairds.

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Carn Salachaidh (648m) — the willow cairn — is a Easter Ross hill in the NH58 square above Strathcarron, north of Ardgay. A large granite boulder marks the high point of a broad, peaty plateau looking north across Glen Calvie to the bare Sutherland watershed.

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A pointed Graham above Glen Elchaig at the back of Killilan, looking up to Iron Lodge and the remote Mullardoch hills. A rough, lonely peak with no easy line — the kind of hill local stalkers know better than walkers.

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Cat Law (670m) is a broad heather plateau north of Kirriemuir in the NO31 square, the highest of the Angus outlier hills standing between Glen Prosen and Glen Isla. The tiny summit cairn looks south over Strathmore to the Sidlaws and Firth of Tay, and north into the heart of the Cairngorms by way of Lochnagar.

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Cauldcleuch Head (618m) is the high point of the Roxburghshire-Dumfriesshire watershed in the NT45 square, between Teviotdale and Eskdale. The summit is unmarked except for a fence junction, with a clear sweep across the heart of the Southern Uplands to White Coomb, the Cheviot and on a clear day even the Solway. It is one of the more remote Border Grahams, with the road approaches from either side feeling notably empty.

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Cnap Chaochan Aitinn (715m) — the knoll of the juniper burn — sits at NJ14 on the moors between Tomintoul and the Lecht road, on the north-eastern edge of the Cairngorms massif. A rounded heather mound with a small cairn, it gives a sweeping view across the whisky-country glens of Avon and Livet, and on a clear day eastward to Lochnagar. This is grouse-moor walking at its most quintessential.

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A round knoll between Loch Treig and the upper Spean, looking south to the Easains and west toward the Grey Corries. The summit is a small rock rib at the end of a long heathery rib — pleasingly out of the way.

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Arrochar Graham overshadowed by The Brack and The Cobbler next door. Quieter than its big-name neighbours and a useful round combined with The Brack for a longer day. The 761 m top sits in the arrochar trossachs; reckon on 10 km and 720 m of ascent for the round trip.

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A rolling whaleback summit deep in the Cabrach country between Glenlivet and the upper Deveron, far enough from main roads to feel genuinely lonely. The flanks fold into heather-bag glens carrying small burns north toward Dufftown.

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Corra-bheinn (704m) — the steep hill — at NM57 stands in the central spine of Mull above Glen More, between Ben More to the west and Beinn Talaidh to the east. A rocky outcrop crowns the summit with a view that spans the whole island: Iona offshore, the Treshnish chain to the north, Jura's Paps to the south, and on a rare clear day the entire mainland Cruachan group.

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Corwharn (609m) is a broad heather rise above Glen Prosen in the NO26 square, on the southern fringe of the Cairngorms National Park in Angus. The summit is essentially unmarked — a small swell of ground at the high point of a long undulating ridge. The view sweeps from the line of Driesh and Mayar down across the eastern Angus glens to the Strathmore plain and the Sidlaws.

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Craignaw (646m) sits at the core of the Dungeon Range in the NX48 square, a wild Galloway summit between Loch Enoch and Loch Neldricken. A cairn perches on top of a large granite boulder at the high point — the famous "Devil's Bowling Green" of glaciated slabs lies a short stroll north.

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Creach-Beinn (698m) — the hill of plunder, named for cattle reivers who once mustered raids in its shadow — sits at the heart of Morvern in the NM62 square. With 552m of prominence it dominates the peninsula, looking out over Loch Linnhe to Ardgour and across the Sound of Mull to Ben More. The summit is a rocky bump on a long undulating ridge.

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Creag a' Mhadaidh (611m), the fox's crag, rises above the north shore of Loch Rannoch in the NN66 square, on the southern edge of the great Rannoch deer forest. The summit rock perches at the top of a broken hillside that drops steeply toward the loch. From the top the view stretches across to Schiehallion and along the loch to the Black Wood of Rannoch, with the bigger Munros north toward Loch Ericht.

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Creag Bhalg (668m) — the bag crag — rises west of Braemar above the Linn of Dee in the NO09 square, a steep little granite knoll cloaked in some of the finest Caledonian pinewood in Scotland. The cairn looks south over Glen Geldie to the Cairngorm Munros and gives an intimate view down into the pine canopy of Mar Lodge estate.

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A craggy ridge rising directly above the A86 west of Newtonmore, famous as the rallying-cry hill of Clan Macpherson and adorned with broken crag faces well known to rock climbers. The compact summit ridge gives a stunning ground-level view across the upper Spey to the Cairngorms.

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Creag Dhubh (659m) — the dark crag — rises sharply from the A86 above Loch Laggan in the NN32 square. The rocky south face is well known to climbers, but the cairned summit is reached more gently by walkers from the west and gives a striking view down on Loch Laggan and across to Ardverikie.

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Creag Dhubh Mhor (611m), the great black crag, rises north of Strath Bran in the NG94 square between Achnasheen and Strathcarron. Its small summit cairn caps a sweep of dark Torridonian sandstone above an unnamed lochan. The view is dominated by the great line of Torridon peaks running west and by Sgurr nan Ceannaichean immediately to the south.

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Creag Each (673m) — the horse crag — sits north of Comrie in Glen Lednock in the NN62 square, a craggy little summit on the Highland edge of southern Perthshire. The rocky prominence above the cairn looks south over Strathearn to the Ochils and north into the heart of the Breadalbane group, with the cleft of the Devil's Cauldron visible far below.

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Creag Gharbh (637m) — the rough crag — is a south-side Loch Tay hill in the NN63 square between Killin and Ardeonaig. A rocky knoll marks the high point of a heathery ridge with views across Loch Tay to Ben Lawers and east along the loch toward Kenmore.

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Creag Ghuanach (621m), the rocky crag of unease, is a small rocky knoll above the head of Loch Treig in the NN29 square. Its cairn looks across the loch to the great whaleback of Stob Coire Easain and back along Strath Ossian toward the Corrour deer forest. The remoteness of the setting makes the modest top feel earned even though the climb is short.

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A long grey crag on the southern edge of the Monadhliath above Laggan village, looking over Strath Mashie to the Creag Meagaidh range. The crag faces above the road are favoured nesting cliffs and the summit ridge gives surprisingly long views east toward the Cairngorms.

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Creag Mhor (712m) — the big crag — stands at NC69 well into central Sutherland, a quartzite-and-gneiss summit lost among the lonely moors south-east of Ben Hope. With Strath More to the north and Loch Choire to the south, this is one of the more isolated Grahams in the country. The small cairn looks across an extraordinary emptiness toward Ben Klibreck and the Flow Country.

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Creag Mhor (659m) — the big crag — is a craggy outlier of the Glen Finglas hills in the NN51 square, lying east of Brig o' Turk in the Trossachs. The rocky top looks down on Loch Drunkie and the Achray forest, with the Lawers range filling the northern skyline.

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Creag na h-Eararuidh (708m), also called Stuc na Cabaig, sits at NN68 south of Lochearnhead in the Loch Earn/Glen Ogle uplands. The double-named hill has a small cairned summit on a craggy schist ridge with views north over Loch Earn to the Lawers range, south to Ben Vorlich and east toward the Sma' Glen. The Stuc na Cabaig name (referring to the rocky cap) is the more commonly used among locals.

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Creag Ruadh (712m) — the red crag — sits at NN67 on the south side of Glen Lyon near Fortingall, the village famous for its ancient yew. A reddish schist scarp gives the hill its name; the small cairn on top looks down the longest glen in Scotland and across to the Ben Lawers Munros. The hill hides behind the more obvious Stuc an Lochain — much of its appeal lies in that quiet shoulder away from popular routes.

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Creag Ruadh (658m) — the red crag — perches above Loch Laggan in the NN68 square, west of Sherramore. The small cairn occupies a heathery shoulder with the Ardverikie estate spread below; reddish granite outcrops on the south face give the hill its name.

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Creag Ruadh (622m), the red crag, rises above Loch Laggan in the NN59 square, between Strath Mashie and Aberarder. The reddish granite-and-schist trig point sits on a small rocky cone that gives an unexpectedly fine close-up view of the Creag Meagaidh massif across the loch. The hill is short and accessible from the A86 and works well as a half-day stop on the way west.

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Creag Tharsuinn (643m) — the transverse crag — is the highest point of the Cowal peninsula in the NS08 square, looking south down Loch Striven and east over the Clyde to Arran. A flat rock marks the high point of a long heathery ridge cut by mature plantation on the lower slopes.

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The high point of the Cromdale Hills above Grantown-on-Spey, topped by a substantial cairn raised for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. A rolling Speyside whaleback with vast views across the Cairngorms.

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Croft Head (636m) rises above the upper Moffat Water in the NT15 square, on the Annandale flank of the Southern Uplands. The bare summit hides a steep, crag-fringed northern corrie above Selcoth Burn, and on a clear day the Tweedsmuir hills, White Coomb and the Solway stretch out from a single grassy crown. Access is from the A708 between Moffat and St Mary's Loch.

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Croit Bheinn (664m) — the hill of the croft — is a quiet Moidart summit in the NM87 square, set on the north side of Glen Aladale between Glenfinnan and Loch Shiel. The small cairn looks south down Loch Shiel to the volcanic plug of Ben Hiant in Ardnamurchan and north over the Glenfinnan Munros. Pathless throughout, this is a hill for connoisseurs of the lonely.

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Cruach Choireadail (618m) rises in the rough country of central Mull in the NM53 square, immediately east of Glen More on the road across the island to Loch Buie. The volcanic rock summit overlooks the great basalt sweep of Ben More to the north-west and looks south down the wooded length of Loch Spelve. As a Mull hill it shares the boggy, lochan-spotted character of its neighbours rather than the cleaner ridges of the mainland.

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Cruach nam Miseag (607m) sits at NS18 above the head of Loch Goil, a broad-backed Cowal Graham within sight of the Arrochar peaks but rarely visited in its own right. A small cairn marks the summit on a turfy crown, with the eye drawn west over Hell's Glen and the rough country toward Beinn Bheula. The hill's position between Lochgoilhead and Strachur means walkers tend to pass through rather than linger.

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Cruach nam Mult (611m), the wether-sheep mountain, sits above Glen Croe in the NN10 square, on the north flank of the Arrochar pass to Inveraray. The unmarked summit is a small grass knoll at the end of a long undulating ridge between Cruach Tairbeirt and the road over the Rest and Be Thankful. The view encompasses the Cobbler, Beinn Ime and the head of Loch Long.

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Cruach nan Capull (612m), the horse mountain, dominates the southern half of the Cowal peninsula in the NS09 square, between Loch Striven and Loch Riddon. A small rock summit sits at the top of a steep, broken north flank that gives the hill its distinctive profile when viewed from the Kyles of Bute. The prominence figure of 486m means the climb feels notably bigger than the headline height suggests.

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Cruach Neuran (607m) is a heather-clad Cowal Graham in the NS08 square, lifting steeply between Loch Striven and the wooded shores of Loch Riddon. The trig pillar on its small summit dome looks east over Bute and the upper Clyde, north to the Arrochar Alps and south down the long finger of Loch Striven toward Toward Point. Despite its proximity to Glasgow this is one of the quieter Cowal hills, with no through path and few cairned trods.

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Cruinn a' Bheinn (632m), the round mountain, sits behind Rowardennan in the NN36 square, north of the eastern shore of Loch Lomond. The summit cairn stands at the apex of a smoothly rounded grass dome that gives a remarkably full sweep of the loch and a close look at the north face of Ben Lomond. The hill is most often climbed as a back-extension to Ben Lomond rather than alone.

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The highest point in South Lanarkshire and the dominant summit of the Culter Hills above Biggar. Its trig point looks across the Clyde-Tweed watershed to the Tweedsmuir Hills and on clear days to the Forth bridges and the Pentlands.

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The high point of the Luss Hills behind the west shore of Loch Lomond. A grassy rolling whaleback that gives the best Graham-level view of the Cobbler, Ben Lomond and the upper Loch Lomond islands.

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A long whaleback ridge running parallel to the north shore of Loch Eil, looking south to Ben Nevis and the Mamores across the head of Loch Linnhe. The traverse from end to end gives one of the best low-level Lochaber ridge walks anywhere.

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Druim Fada (710m) — the long ridge — at NG89 forms the spine of the Glenelg peninsula opposite Skye, separating Loch Hourn from the Sound of Sleat. The two-summit ridge gives a striking sea view: the Knoydart skyline to the south, the entire Cuillin to the west, and the Five Sisters of Kintail eastward across Glen More. Beorus Hill (the eastern Marilyn) is the high point of the ridge proper.

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A long heathery ridge rising directly above the Corran Narrows on the Ardgour side, looking straight across to the Ben Nevis range. The summit gives the best low-level view of Nevis in Lochaber — better than anywhere on the main A82.

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Duchray Hill (Mealna Letter) (703m) is a sprawling heather hump on the south-eastern shoulder of Glen Shee, anchored in the NO16 square between Spittal of Glenshee and Glen Isla. Its Gaelic name Mealna Letter — the lump on the slope — captures the character: a peat-mantled summit ringed by three subsidiary tops linked by gentle ridges. From the trig the eye runs across Lornty to Schiehallion and onward to the Mounth.

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The highest of the Manor Hills, a smooth grassy ridge between the Tweed at Peebles and the Yarrow Valley. The summit cairn sits on a long undulating crest favoured by mountain bikers using the old drove road to the south.

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Ettrick Pen (691m) is the rounded grassy summit at the head of Ettrick Water, set in the NT10 square on the Dumfries-Borders boundary. Pen is Brittonic for head — a reference to its position at the watershed of three rivers, the Ettrick, the Annan and the Esk. The Southern Upland Way crosses just below its summit.

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Fiarach (652m) — the slanting one — is the long ridge that closes the south side of Strath Fillan in the NN32 square. The small cairn on rock at the high point overlooks the West Highland Way, with Ben More and Stob Binnein filling the south-east skyline.

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Gathersnow Hill (689m) is exactly what the name promises — a high grassy hump above Biggar in the NT05 square that catches and holds easterly snow long after the surrounding tops have cleared. Set among the Culter Fells on the watershed between Tweed and Clyde, it is one of the highest summits south of the Forth-Clyde line.

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A heather-and-granite dome standing alone between Crathie and Ballater on the north side of the Dee, separated from Morven by the Gairn. The trig point sits inside a circular drystone shelter, a welcome sight in a wind from the Cairngorm plateau.

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A subsidiary Graham on the broad Mamore-side ridge above Kinlochleven, often passed over in favour of the higher Munros to the north. Worth a visit on a low-cloud day when the bigger hills are socked in.

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Glas Bheinn (635m) sits at the eastern end of the Morvern peninsula in the NM93 square, looking out over Loch Linnhe toward Lismore and the Appin shore. The grassy summit gives a panorama from Mull through to the Glen Coe tops, with the corrugated ridges of Garbh Bheinn dominating the north. Access from Kingairloch makes this the most logical Morvern Graham for a half-day on the way to Ardnamurchan.

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Quartzite summit overlooking the Eas a' Chùal Aluinn waterfall — Britain's highest free-falling waterfall — which is reached as a side-trip from this hill. 776 m summit, 12 km out-and-back from Ullapool, 700 m of ascent. North-West Highlands.

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Glas-bheinn Mhor (651m) — the big grey hill — sits south of Strathconon in the NH43 square between the River Meig and Loch Luichart. The flat rocky summit looks east toward the Affric watershed and north back across Strathconon to Beinn Mheadhoin and An Sidhean.

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Glas-charn (633m), the green cairn, rises above Glenfinnan in the NM84 square at the head of Loch Shiel. The cairn perches on a grassy crown looking down the loch to the Moidart hills and across to the south Glenfinnan Munros. With the West Highland Line passing close to its base the hill has unusually easy public-transport access for a hill of this character.

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The second-highest of the Lowther Hills, crowned by the bristling radar and communications array of NATS' Lowther Hill complex. The walk-in is on a Tarmac service road — unromantic but quick.

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A rounded summit at the southern edge of the Fisherfield wilderness, sitting on the watershed between Loch a' Bhraoin and the Heights of Kinlochewe. Its modest height belies a position deep in genuinely remote country with views toward An Teallach and the Fannaichs.

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Hartaval (669m) sits on the great Trotternish escarpment in the NG45 square, the second-highest summit on the ridge after The Storr. The cairn perches on the broad grass dome behind the basalt cliffs, looking east to Raasay and the mainland and west across the moors to the Western Isles. Always overshadowed by its more famous neighbour but a finer summit in its own right.

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Hecla (606m) is the most northerly of the trio of rocky Lewisian gneiss peaks that crown eastern South Uist, sitting in the NF83 square overlooking Loch Sgioport and the Minch. Its summit cairn perches on a tilted slab with views across to Beinn Mhor, north toward the Harris hills and east to Skye on the rare clear day. The lower slopes are a maze of lochans and bog characteristic of the Uist hinterland, but the upper hill is unexpectedly Alpine in feel, all bare rock ribs and short turf.

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Hill of Wirren (678m) is a flat-topped Old Red Sandstone landmark on the southern edge of Glen Esk, occupying the NO57 square between Strathmore and the eastern Mounth. The bare summit ground commands one of the great east-coast panoramas — Strathmore, the Sidlaws, the North Sea and the Cairngorm tops all in view from a single rotation.

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Hunt Hill (705m) sits at NO38 at the head of Glen Esk in Angus, on the south-eastern fringe of the Lochnagar uplands. Bare upland ground crowns a broad heather plateau with a wide view south down Glen Esk and north-east across to Mount Keen and the White Mounth. The hill's name reflects centuries of use as deer-stalking ground for the Dalhousie estate.

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Ladylea Hill (609m) sits between Glenbuchat and Strathdon in the NJ31 square, an east-Cairngorm outlier on the upper Don. The cairn is set into open heather ground, with a far view from Bennachie's tors to the high Cairngorms and out east toward the Moray coast. The hill is a popular day trip from Donside, with hill tracks built for the grouse season giving most of the height-gain on firm ground.

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Lamachan Hill (716m) is the high point of a separate Galloway ridge at NX43, lying south of Loch Trool between the Range of the Awful Hand and the Rhinns of Kells. A grass-and-bilberry crown carries a small boulder marker, with extensive Galloway Forest Park lochans spread below. Views reach south to the Solway and the Lake District on clear days, and west to the Merrick massif. As part of the SC Dark Sky Park, nights here are exceptional.

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Leagag (601m) is a quiet Graham sitting in the NN51 square on the southern flank of the Schiehallion massif, between Loch Rannoch and the deep cleft of Gleann Mor. A small turfy cairn marks the top, with Schiehallion's pyramid dominating the view north and Loch Rannoch winking through the trees to the west. The hill is generally walked as a solo outing or as a shoulder warm-up before tackling Schiehallion proper.

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Leana Mhor (683m) — the big meadow — is a broad heathery hill on the north side of Loch Treig, set in the NN28 square between the West Highland Line and the Easains. The name reflects its sweeping cropped-grass summit. From the cairn the view runs south down Loch Treig and west to the Aonachs and Ben Nevis.

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Leana Mhor (676m) — the big wet meadow — is a sprawling moorland hump above Glen Spean in NN31, set back from the Tulloch road and overlooking the western end of Loch Treig. The name is wholly accurate: this is one of the wettest pieces of ground in the central Highlands, with bog and lochan covering most of the long approach.

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A heathery Graham on the north side of Glen Creran in Appin, looking south-west to Loch Creran and the Lismore islands. A quiet hill in a quiet glen — perfect for a short Argyll day.

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The big rounded pyramid that closes the head of Glen Sligachan, sitting between the Black and Red Cuillin. A brilliant solo Graham day from the Sligachan Hotel. 736 m summit, 14 km out-and-back from Portree, 800 m of ascent. Skye and Small Isles.

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Meall a' Chaorainn (705m) — the rowan hill — sits at NH13 in the rolling moorland north of Achnasheen, between Loch a' Chroisg and the head of Loch Fannich. A small cairn tops a domed grassy summit with a fine view east into the Fannichs and west to An Teallach's pinnacled silhouette. One of several Scottish hills sharing this name — this is the Achnasheen example.

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Meall a' Chaorainn (632m), the hill of the rowan, rises north of Strathconon in the NH38 square between Loch Beannacharain and the upper Conon. It is one of the lesser-walked Grahams of Mid-Ross, with a small summit cairn perched on grassy moorland above the broad lower glen. From the top the eye is drawn west to the bigger Strathfarrar hills and east toward the Cromarty Firth.

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Meall a' Chrathaich (678m) lifts above Glen Urquhart south of the Beauly Firth in NH32-36 country, a broad heather plateau whose Gaelic name speaks of the sieve or strainer — perhaps the way mist drapes the boggy summit. The trig stands on a small outcrop and looks east over Loch Mhor and Loch Ness to the distant Cairngorms.

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A heather-and-grass moorland Graham above the south side of Loch Rannoch, near the Bridge of Gaur. Its name, the hill of the pig, hints at the rooted-up peaty ground; the position commands a fine cross-loch view of Schiehallion.

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Meall an Fheur Loch (613m), the hill of the grass loch, sits west of Loch Stack and north of Loch More in the NC33 square, deep in the north-west Sutherland Geopark country. The cairn-and-rock summit looks out to Ben Stack, Arkle and the great wall of Foinaven, with the gleam of the Atlantic visible far to the west. It is one of the quieter Sutherland Grahams, with no other walkers likely on most days.

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Meall Blair (656m) — the moor hill — rises above the Mile Dorcha section of Loch Arkaig in the NN09 square. A small trig point sits on a clipped grassy dome looking south-west down Glen Mallie and north over the dark waters of Loch Arkaig toward the Munros of Glen Dessarry.

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Meall Buidhe (719m) — the yellow hill — sits at NN57 on the south side of Glen Lyon between Inverinain and Pubil. Its pale tussock-and-mat-grass slopes give the name and from a distance the dome looks unremarkable, but a 273m drop to neighbouring tops earns it Graham status in its own right. The summit cairn rests on a broad whaleback giving a remarkable panorama: Loch Lyon glinting below, the Lawers range filling the north, and on a clear day the Mamores stacked across the horizon.

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Meall Dearg (690m) — the red lump — is a grassy summit on the south side of Glen Quaich in the NN84 square. Its red-brown schist gives the name, and the trig pillar caps a long whaleback ridge looking south to the Sma' Glen and north to the Schiehallion massif. Far less visited than its many namesakes elsewhere in the Highlands.

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A roadside Graham above the Dirrie More on the A835 between Garve and Ullapool. Easy access from the road makes it a popular leg-stretcher for travellers heading north. 728 m summit, 13 km out-and-back from Ullapool, 597 m of ascent. North-West Highlands.

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Meall Fuar-mhonaidh (698m) — the lump of the cold moor — is the highest point on the south-west side of Loch Ness, set in the NH42 square above Drumnadrochit. Its trig pillar offers what some claim is the finest view in the Great Glen: the loch stretching forty miles to Inverness with the Affric peaks beyond.

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Meall Garbh (700m) — the rough lump — is a heathery dome south of Loch Lyon in the NN16 square, hemmed between the Lyon dam and the Munro mass of Stuchd an Lochain. Although modest, its position gives a fine outlook across the Glen Lyon hills and along the chain of reservoirs that drain east to Loch Tay.

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A wild Letterewe Graham deep in the wilderness north of Loch Maree, sandwiched between the Munros of Slioch and Beinn Lair. One of the most remote Grahams on the mainland — no road within 10km.

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A grassy dome between Glen Falloch and Glen Gyle on the eastern flanks of Loch Lomond, looking across the head of the loch to Ben Vorlich and Ben Vane. Quiet country compared with the nearby Arrochar Alps, with deer and few walkers.

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A bulky Graham forming the watershed between Strathglass and Glen Strathfarrar, north of Struy. A pleasant rolling top reached by long forestry approaches — the kind of hill that rewards local knowledge of estate gates.

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Meall Mor (676m) is the big rounded hump on the south side of Glen Coe in NN15, set above the village and looking straight across to the Aonach Eagach ridge. Its 304m of re-ascent makes it an independent summit despite being overshadowed by the giants opposite, and the cairn enjoys an unsurpassed grandstand view of the Three Sisters and Bidean nam Bian.

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Meall na Faochaig (680m) is a heather-clad lump on the north side of Strathconon in NH25, its name translating as the hill of the whelks. It guards the entrance to the long Loch Beannacharain glen and offers a quiet half-day for visitors who venture beyond the usual Inverness honeypots. The cairn looks east toward the Beauly Firth and west into the Monar wilderness.

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Meall nan Caorach (623m), the hill of the sheep, rises north of the Sma' Glen in the NN93 square, between Glen Almond and Glen Quaich. The collapsed shelter cairn at the top sits on a broad grass plateau with a view that takes in Ben Chonzie, Schiehallion and the Lowther line of the Ochils away to the south-east. The hill is regularly paired with neighbouring Meall Reamhar for a short Perthshire round.

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A remote heathery Graham in the wild country south of Loch Shiel, between Polloch and Glenfinnan. Reached by a long forest road approach with the West Highland Line for company.

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Meall nan Eagan (657m) — the hill of the notches — is a peaty Drumochter outlier in the NN58 square, looking down on the Spey at Catlodge. Its rocky summit offers an unusually wide arc of view from the Cairngorms across to Ben Alder and the Drumochter Munros.

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Meall nan Eun (667m) — the hill of the birds — sits in the wild moorland between Loch Hourn and Loch Quoich in the NG90 square, on the rugged north side of the Knoydart peninsula approach. The summit boulder, perched on a Lewisian gneiss outcrop, looks out over the sea at Kinloch Hourn to the Skye Cuillin on the far horizon.

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A grassy summit at the head of Glen Strae north-east of Loch Awe, an outlier of the Beinn Eunaich-Beinn a' Chochuill ridge across the glen. Quiet and seldom climbed, with the bulk of Ben Cruachan filling the south-west view.

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Meall Odhar (656m) — the dun hill — is a quiet shoulder in the NN29 square between Tyndrum and the head of Glen Lochay. Its rocky outcrop summit sits on a long crest of grass and rock with views west to the Cruach Ardrain group and east into Glen Lyon.

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Meall Onfhaidh (679m) lies above the south shore of Loch Arkaig in NN08, a quiet Lochaber Graham whose name carries the sense of storm or commotion — apt for an exposed top often the first to catch westerly squalls running up the loch. From the summit rock the eye runs over Loch Arkaig to the Knoydart Munros and south to the bulk of Gulvain.

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Meall Reamhar (617m), the broad lump, sits beside Meall nan Caorach above Glen Quaich in the NN93 square, the pair forming a natural Perthshire double. The summit cairn crowns a wide grass plateau looking south over the Sma' Glen and the Tay valley. A second hill of the same name lies up by Glen Tilt — this is the southern one and is much the more accessible of the pair.

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Meall Tairbh (664m) — the bull's hill — sits above Bridge of Orchy in the NN23 square, an outlier of the Beinn Dorain range looking south over Loch Tulla to the Black Mount. The cairn marks the highest point of a broad heathery shoulder that catches the morning sun before the larger peaks behind. A short half-day from the A82.

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A small Lewisian gneiss summit rising above Loch Glendhu in west Sutherland, paired closely with the Corbett Beinn Leoid to the north-east. The whole area is a chaos of bare bedrock knolls and tiny lochans giving views deep into the Reay Forest.

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Meith Bheinn (710m) — the boggy hill — stands at NM82 on the south shore of Loch Morar, Britain's deepest freshwater loch. With Loch Nevis on its far side and Knoydart's rough country to the north, the hill is set in one of mainland Scotland's wildest sea-loch landscapes. The rock-marked summit overlooks the freshwater-to-saltwater isthmus at Tarbet — only a quarter-mile of land separates the two great lochs here.

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Mid Hill (Beinn Dubh) (656m) is the central rise of the Luss Hills in the NS39 square, looking down on Glen Striddle and the village of Luss. A small cairn marks the top of a long grassy whaleback that gives an exceptional panorama from Ben Lomond round to the Cowal hills and the Clyde.

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Millfore (657m) lies on the Minnigaff Hills in the NX47 square of Galloway Forest Park, looking south-east over Clatteringshaws toward the Solway. The exposed rock strata at the top, tilted like a deck of cards, mark the highest point of the central Galloway uplands.

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A heathery dome topped by a huge stone-built cairn high above Glen Gairn between Ballater and Strathdon, with extensive views east to the Aberdeenshire farmland and west to the Cairngorm plateau. The cairn is one of the largest summit markers in north-east Scotland.

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Mor Bheinn (640m) — the big hill — rises south of Loch Earn in the NN72 square, looking north to Ben Vorlich across the loch and south over Glen Artney to Glen Eagles. A rock and trig point share the high point on a broad grassy crown above woodland.

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Morven (706m) is the high point of Caithness at ND00, a near-conical sandstone peak rising from the Flow Country flatlands like an island from the sea. From any direction in the county the distinctive triangular profile is unmistakable. Its 576m prominence is extraordinary for its modest summit height and the view from the top spans the Pentland Firth, Orkney on a clear day, and inland to Ben Klibreck and Morrich Mor.

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An isolated conical hill straddling the Angus-Perthshire boundary between Glen Shee and Glen Isla, with a trig point and a chairlift-pole-topped cairn marking the summit. The 400m of prominence and its standalone position make it a landmark from miles around.

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A remote Graham on the south side of Loch Arkaig, deep in the Locheil Forest. One of the hardest Grahams to reach in southern Lochaber — the walk-in along the loch is the main commitment.

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Mullwharchar (692m) is the remote granite dome at the heart of the Range of the Awful Hand, set in the NX48 square between Loch Enoch and Loch Doon. The name means the hill of the call, possibly from huntsmen's horns. Famous in the 1980s as a proposed nuclear waste site, it remains one of the loneliest summits south of the Highland line.

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Oireabhal (Oreval) (662m) is a rough Harris peak in the NB00 square, lying inland from the Bunavoneader whaling station above Loch a' Siar. Its rocky top dominates the central spine of North Harris, looking down on Loch Voshimid and west to the Atlantic beyond Tarbert.

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Sgorr na Ciche, the famous breast-shaped peak rising at the western end of the Aonach Eagach ridge directly above Glencoe village and Loch Leven. Tiny in height for its visual impact, it is the most photographed minor summit in Lochaber.

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Pressendye (619m) is the great pudding-shaped hill above Tarland in the NJ40 square, on the northern edge of mid-Deeside. A huge wind shelter sits on the summit, big enough to give comfortable cover for several walkers. The view takes in Lochnagar, the Buck of Cabrach and the line of the Deeside hills, with the Moray Firth a silver line on the horizon on the clearest days.

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Queensberry (697m) is the grassy giant above Thornhill, set in the NX99 square at the southern end of the Lowther Hills. The hill gave its name to the Marquess of Queensberry and the boxing rules he sponsored. From the broad summit cairn the view sweeps across the Nith valley to Criffel and south to the Solway sands.

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A remote Sutherland Graham buried in the Reay Forest, surrounded by the Foinaven and Arkle massifs. The walk-in alone is a half-day, but the summit rewards with one of the loneliest views in mainland Britain.

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Scaraben (626m) is the high point of inland Caithness, set in the ND06 square between the Berriedale Water and the Langwell estate. A quartzite ridge punctuated by three knobbly tops gives the hill its bony profile, visible for miles as a pale ribbon above the Flow Country. The trig pillar in its small shelter sits on the central top, with views from Sutherland's east coast to the Pentland Firth.

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Sgiath a' Chaise (644m) — the wing of the gorge — is a flat-topped outlier in the NN51 square between Lochearnhead and Callander. An iron fence post sits among a few rocks at the high point; the view sweeps from Ben Vorlich south-east across Glen Artney to the lowland edge.

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Sgorach Mor (602m) is the highest point on the wedge of upland between Loch Eck and the head of Loch Fyne, sitting at NS09 north of Strachur. Its substantial prominence of around 430m gives it the bearing of a proper hill day rather than a tick-and-go summit. A flat rock slab marks the high point, and the view sweeps from Beinn Bheula round the Arrochar Alps, with Loch Fyne stretching south-west and the Cowal forests filling the foreground.

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Sgorr a' Choise (661m) — the peak of the foot — is a sharp little summit in the NN05 square above Glen Duror in upper Appin. The rock-topped cone looks down on Ballachulish, with the Pap of Glencoe across Loch Leven and the Beinn a' Bheithir Munros directly north.

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Sgorr Mhic Eacharna (650m) is an Ardgour outlier in the NM92 square above Strontian, looking across to Beinn Resipol and out over Loch Sunart. The cairn sits on a sharp shoulder of granite-veined schist with the Sound of Mull stretching south on a clear day.

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A rocky Ardgour Graham on the watershed between Glen Gour and Glen Scaddle, paired naturally with the Corbett Sgurr Dhomhnuill which rises just to the south-west. The summit has a fine pointed character and gives a quiet alternative to its better-known neighbour on this trackless peninsula.

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A craggy Graham rising directly from the south shore of Loch Carron, west of Lochcarron village. Its complex of crags and lochans makes it feel like a much bigger hill than 732m suggests.

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Sgurr an Fhidhleir (703m) — the Fiddler — at NC09 in Coigach is one of the most photographed peaks in the North-West, a sheer Torridonian sandstone prow rising above Loch Lurgainn opposite Stac Pollaidh. The cairned summit perches at the very edge of the 200m precipice that gives the hill its dramatic profile from the road. To stand on the lip and look down the great Fiddler's Nose is among the most exhilarating positions of any Scottish Graham.

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A rocky little peak above the head of Loch Arkaig, looking south into the wild emptiness of Glen Pean and west toward the Sgurr na Ciche range. The summit is awkward to reach without a bike: the loch road is one of the longest cul-de-sacs in Lochaber.

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A rust-red, lava-streaked summit in the Morvern peninsula above Lochaline, with crags of weathered basalt giving the hill its name. The view stretches over the Sound of Mull to Ardnamurchan and across to the Small Isles on a good day.

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A rugged Graham on the Kyle Rhea peninsula directly opposite the Glenelg-Kylerhea ferry slip. Despite being the highest hill on the Skye side of the narrows, it is overlooked by walkers heading for the Cuillin. The pull from the Bealach Udal pass is short and rewarding.

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Sgurr nan Cnamh (701m) is a steep little peak above Loch Sunart in the NM88 square, set in the rough country south of Strontian. The name translates as peak of the bones — local lore links it to a deer-graveyard in its corrie. Its position between Beinn Resipol and Garbh Bheinn gives an unusually wide view of the Sound of Mull and the Morvern hills.

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A broad rolling Perthshire hill rising south of Loch Tay above the hamlet of Ardtalnaig, the second name meaning the yellow chest of the sword. Forms part of the line of grassy summits separating Glen Almond from the Tay, sharing its ridge with Creag Uchdag to the south-west.

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Sithean Mor (601m) is a coastal Graham in the NM72 square between Arisaig and Lochailort, rising abruptly from the wooded shoreline of Loch nan Uamh. A large block of pale Lewisian gneiss tops the summit, with a view that takes in Rum, Eigg, Muck and the Sound of Arisaig spread across the western horizon. The hill is little-frequented despite its proximity to the Road to the Isles, the steep flanks and bracken cover keeping casual walkers at bay.

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Slat Bheinn (700m) is a remote schist hill at the head of Loch Hourn, set in the NG90 square on the Knoydart-Glenelg border. Its name means the long staff hill — a reference to the slender summit ridge angled north-east. Standing well back from the road, it sees few visitors despite a fine view across the loch to Beinn Sgritheall.

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Probably the most photographed hill in the North-West, despite being barely a Graham by height. The pinnacled summit ridge offers genuine scrambling and a 360-degree view across Inverpolly that beats hills three times its height.

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A pointed Graham at the head of Hell's Glen and Glen Croe, looking across to the Cobbler. The summit cone gives a textbook view of the Arrochar Alps from an angle most walkers never see.

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Stob Breac (686m) — the speckled peak — is a steep schist cone in the upper reaches of Glen Falloch, set in the NN41 square between Crianlarich and Balquhidder. Its mottled appearance from old quartzite veins in the schist gave the name. The summit shares a long ridge with the Munro An Caisteal and gives an unusual angle on Beinn Tulaichean and Cruach Ardrain.

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A craggy Graham on the spine of the Sunart-Moidart ridge between Strontian and Glenfinnan, near the higher Corbett Sgurr Dhomhnuill. The summit gives a striking view down Loch Shiel. Glen Coe and Lochaber top at 721 m — 13 km out and back, 591 m of climbing.

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A broad peat-mantled Graham on the south side of Rannoch Moor, looking out over Loch Laidon and the Black Mount. From the Glen Coe road it is barely noticed, but the summit gives one of the strangest views in Scotland — a vast bog horizon punctuated by lochans.

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The most distinctive mountain in Britain — an isolated sandstone dome rising sheer from the lochan-strewn moors of Inverpolly. The walk-in is long but the summit experience is one of the best in Scotland.

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A bold conical Graham of the Cabrach moors between Strathdon and Dufftown, prominent for miles around despite a modest height. The Buck refers to the antler shape of its summit ridge — visible from the Lecht road.

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A small shapely summit overlooking Glen Buckie on the eastern side of Loch Voil in the Balquhidder hills. Forms the western outlier of the Stuc a' Chroin/Beinn Each chain and is often climbed together with the Corbett Beinn an t-Sidhein across the glen.

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The Storr (718m) is the northern bastion of the Trotternish escarpment at NG45/49, a basalt mass whose eastern face has slumped to form the famed Sanctuary of pinnacles including the Old Man. Reached from the well-maintained Storr car park on the A855, the Graham summit lies on a grassy crown above the cliffs, looking south down the Trotternish ridge and east across the Sound of Raasay to the Applecross peaks. Few Scottish hills carry such an obvious geological signature — the lava-on-Jurassic-sediment landslip is textbook.

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Tinto (711m) is the great red hill of Clydesdale at NS95, rising in solitary splendour from rolling farmland between Lanark and Biggar. Its Bronze Age summit cairn — one of the largest in Scotland at around 6m high and 45m across — has been a landmark for four millennia. Views on a clear day reach from Goatfell on Arran to the Cheviots, from the Cumbrian Lakes to the Pentlands. Few Scottish hills are so widely loved by their local communities.

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Tiorga Mor (680m) is the highest summit in the western half of Harris, a rugged Lewisian gneiss tower in NB05 standing above Loch Leosaid and the Forest of Harris. Its 589m of prominence makes it the most independent peak on the Outer Hebrides outside the Clisham group, and the trig commands a panorama from the Flannan Isles out across the Atlantic to St Kilda on the rarest clear days.

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Tom Meadhoin (621m), the middle knoll, lifts above Kinlochleven in the NN06 square between Loch Leven and the Mamores. The summit is a rock cushion in grass at the end of a gentle ridge running east from the village. The view down Loch Leven is one of the best gifts of a hill this size, with the Glen Coe tops and the south side of the Mamores filling the horizon.

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Trollabhal (702m) is the central peak of the Rum Cuillin, a Norse-named summit in the NM37 square whose dark gabbro and ultrabasic rock give the whole island its forbidding profile. The name is from the Old Norse for troll-fell. Standing between Askival and Ainshval, it shares the same wild, sea-girt character as its Cuillin cousins on Skye but on a more compact and seldom-visited stage.

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Tullich Hill (633m) lifts above Glen Douglas in the NN29 square, on the narrow ridge that separates Loch Long from Loch Lomond. The cairn-less rocky top sits at the southern end of a long whaleback whose grassy flanks are favoured by deer and feral goats. The view is one of the finest among the lower Arrochar hills, taking in Beinn Narnain, Ben Lomond and the southern reaches of both lochs.

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Uamh Bheag (665m) — the small cave — rises north of Callander in the NN61 square, the high point of the Braes of Doune moorland that bounds the Trossachs on its eastern side. A fence junction beside the summit cairn marks the true top. The view stretches south over the Forth valley to the Pentlands and Edinburgh's skyline on the rarest clear days.

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A craggy gneiss Graham at the south end of the Harris hills, looking across Loch Langavat to Clisham. The hill's name means hill of the water valley — apt for a peak surrounded by lochans and burns.

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Well Hill (606m) is a grassy Lowther Graham at NS91, set on the boundary between South Lanarkshire and Dumfries and Galloway above the lead-mining village of Wanlockhead. The high point is a fence junction beside a small cairn, with the ground rolling away in long pastoral curves toward Lowther Hill's radome to the north-east and the upper reaches of the Mennock Pass to the south. The hill sees few walkers despite easy roadside access.

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Windlestraw Law (659m) is the highest point of the Moorfoot Hills, sitting in the NT34 square between Innerleithen and the upper Tweed. The summit is unmarked beside a fence junction on rolling grass — a high, lonely vantage looking south over the Tweed valley to Eildon and the Cheviots.

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Windy Standard (697m) is the highest of the wind-farmed uplands east of Loch Doon, set in the NS60 square on the Carsphairn watershed. The summit hosts a fenced trig and a constellation of turbines stretching south toward the Afton reservoir. From the top the view runs west to Merrick and east into Nithsdale.

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