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19th Apr 2025  14:00  by Archie Whippet

FB Number: S5142  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

From Overtoun House. Second time at this one. Blowing a gale at the top both times. Good views and well managed track within the Woodland Trust land. Beyond there and particularly near the hill it's v boggy.

25th May 2024  13:14  by Robert Phillips

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Path from Overtown House.

©Robert Phillips

19th May 2024  14:45  by RBBC

FB Number: S5142  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

27th Jan 2024  12:00  by dreamsaddict

FB Number: S5142  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 8/10

3rd Mar 2023  08:14  by Cranb

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

9th Sep 2022  21:46  by Madam maxwell

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

What a great wee trigpoint. Good path slightly boggy in places all the way from Overtoun House.

©Madam maxwell

22nd May 2022  13:43  by Katrinaandrea89

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

19th Apr 2022  19:11  by MrsBevvy

FB Number: S5142  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 9/10

19th Apr 2022  17:50  by MrsBevvy

FB Number: S5142  Condition: Good  Score: 9/10

20th Mar 2022  13:16  by Machyde23

FB Number: S5142  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Doughnot Hill ©Machyde23
Doughnot Hill ©Machyde23
Doughnot Hill Spider©Machyde23

12th Jun 2020  15:02  by Dsills

FB Number: S5142  Condition: Good  Score: 10/10

14th Jun 2019  10:25  by Sealf4

FB Number: S5142  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Took the train to Old Kilpatrick and walked up from there via road, track then path alongside Loch Humphrey. Went on to Duncolm and then The Slacks before returning to the station. Excellent views in good weather.

18th Nov 2018  12:49  by pricklyangelduo

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

14th Sep 2017  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: NS 44727 77660   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Can no longer drive up along the track from the SE (Cochno Filters on map) and park at Greenside Resr. Now a private road and gated in half a mile.

11th Sep 2016  16:25  by milivaig man

FB Number: S5142  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

10th Sep 2016  09:55  by Sandman

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Boggy approach from Black Linn, good but hazy views

22nd Sep 2013  12:30  by Quadbarrel

FB Number: S5142  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Second of a run over a trio of trigs starting at the old Cochno Waterworks and taking in Duncolm Hill, Doughnot Hill and The Slacks. Took the direct route from Duncolm. More very boggy going, but great fun, and just think of how fit it makes you....... Lovely views to Loch Lomond and to the Clyde Estuary.

Flush Bracket
Circular Plate
View West to Loch Lomond and the Clyde Estuary
Cracking view.......

6th Oct 2012  16:17  by clochandighter

Gridref: NS 44729 77659   FB Number: S5142  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Revisit. Approached from SE. Parked at NS470731. Three trig circuit via The Slacks, Doughnot Hill and Duncolm Hill. Open grazing top. Pillar in good condition. Spider retains replacement OS centre cap with raised large wide lettering. Flush bracket faces WSW, ~295°. All sight holes open, pillar bolt visible and photographed. 360° panoramic view with stunning outlook to Loch Lomond.

S5142 - Doughnot Hill & self
S5142 - Doughnot Hill pillar bolt.
S5142 - Doughnot Hill pillar & FB

14th Sep 2011  13:51  by coinea

Gridref: NS 44740 77657   FB Number: S5142  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

GPS-r complained of weak signal, resultant reading badly out.

S5142 Doughnot Hill.

13th Jul 2010  15:49  by SlainteJimmy

Gridref: NS 44727 77659   FB Number: S5142  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Cap with raised lettering inside spider dedicated to *Jambo* and friends, curiously bluey-white graffiti wearing thin over the cracks spreading on all faces with all the sights open. A bit cloudy today to fully appreciate the glorious Western horizon.. Port Glasgow *hello Mum* all the way over the distant Arrochar Alps to the Northern Trossachs and Lomond. Limited time restricted me to only one pillar today, so Duncolm and Slacks will need to wait. Followed Descartes direction and kept the spagnum n tussocks to less than a km - cheers Bro! My favorite view was actually from halfway up.. a very neat 180 of the length of the Clyde valley, from the Firth beyond Gourock, overlooking the Erskine Bridge and the endless sprawl to the Eastern horizon of Glasgow City.

Doughnot Hill ..view doon the watter. :D

6th Jul 2010  11:30  by descarte1

Gridref: NS 44725 77666   FB Number: S5142  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Very good condition pillar on a subtly prominent hill in the Kilpatricks. Doughnot Hill is very obvious approaching from Duncolm, yet almost totally invisible from the west. Nice. FB faces north-west-ish with all sightholes open and clear with the bolt clearly visible. Cap present with raised lettering. Some graffiti on the pillar and some minor cracking. The views from here are excellent across to Loch Lomond and back towards the Campsies. I came directly from Duncolm which was, in retrospect, a lot of effort with a tussocky and sphagnum-infested slog. I returned via Black Linn reservoir which has a metalled road leading off from it. I took the turn towards Loch Humphrey expecting a slog through the forest (or along the lochside...) but! there's a new path on the south side of the loch which hooks up with the Kilpatrick Braes path. So! If you're doing Duncolm and Doughnot in one go, do Duncolm, return to the new path, then do Doughnot.....

Doughnot Hill bolt Doughnot Hill bolt

3rd Dec 2008  15:20  by campagvelocet

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

Kicking my way through the snowy heather from Gallangad Muir was a fair drag on the sections without a forestry track. A distinctive peak as viewed from the north but presumably less so from the east. The cloud filled in while I was on my way up but the views to the north were still fairly extensive.

Doughnot Hill

9th Feb 2006  12:27  by philipmc

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

©philipmc

2nd Jan 2006  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S5142  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

vgc, metal cap, wide raised letters, graffitti on spider, grassy summit rising out of tussocky bog (mist, no view)

26th Jul 2005  13:22  by fasgadh

Gridref: NS 44725 77657   FB Number: S5142  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Intact, but pillar surfaces are a bit cracked. Nothing has fallen off though. Another fine viewpoint.

Doughnot Hill Metal©fasgadh
Doughnot Hill ©fasgadh
Doughnot Hill ©fasgadh

27th Jun 2005  16:33  by Shunter

Gridref: NS 44725 77667   FB Number: S5142  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

S5142 ©Shunter
S5142 ©Shunter
S5142 ©Shunter
S5142 ©Shunter
S5142 ©Shunter

9th Jul 1996  12:34  by clochandighter

FB Number: S5142  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

First visit. To record FB number. HISTORY: Pillar completed 20th March 1949 costing £18.8s.3d. Computed as tertiary triangulation station NS29/T40 in 1952. Levelled for height also in 1952. Last maintained by the OS in October 1971. SITE VISIT: Flush bracket faces west. Spider has an OS cap with raised lettering which is not the original. These are only normally found on pillars dating from the mid fifties onwards. Unlike its near neighbours, this is not a Glaswegian NS77 pillar from 1946, their flush brackets were all in the range from S35** to S39**. With a FB number like S5142 this pillar is part of newer Secondary Block NS29 which covers the much wilder lands to the west of here. It is probable that there was a tertiary connection with S3664 (The Slacks) despite its association with a separate secondary block.

1st Jul 1989  00:00  by agentmancuso

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

From Bowling Station, with Eddie. First walk from Chalmers' "One Hundred Hill Walks around Glasgow", which I've subsequently completed with Fiona.