Logged Visits:

23rd Apr 2024  20:05  by Duncan68

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

It it wasn’t for the turbines you would get an amazing view

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Looking out at the Isle of Arran ©Duncan68

14th Apr 2024  12:30  by Hannahrichi3

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

Parked at the windfarm visitor centre and biked in.

21st Jan 2024  10:34  by Felonevrihil

Gridref: NS 59841 46471   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

14th Jan 2024  15:21  by JHighton

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

18th Jul 2023  13:49  by Dubvine

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

26th Mar 2023  14:20  by A1Mushroom

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Couldn't park at the main carpark at Ardochrig due to people needing 4ft between each car. The road to and from the car park has double yellows to stop people clogging everywhere up so had to park more to the south at NS645451. Used this entrance to the windfarm, followed these roads all the way to the trig.

22nd Nov 2022  11:42  by jonglew

Gridref: NS 59839 46473   FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

From the E, dedicated parking area just N of Ardochrig at NS 6379 4682. 9.55km round trip on WF roads all the way... gates locked so driving wasn't an option. Pillar has lost its centre cap and tube unplugged; rear sight hole open, RHD side plug degrading. No views today, cloud down.

Pillar TP2430©jonglew
Spider TP2430©jonglew
Flush Bracket TP2430©jonglew

21st Nov 2022  20:10  by Oldhortus

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

From the east on WF roads

26th Jun 2022  11:25  by m0jla

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 3/10

20th Mar 2022  00:00  by WeirdWifie

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 8/10

Easy walk in using windfarm tracks. Stunning views.

13th Nov 2021  09:00  by G4VFL

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

SOTA activation GM/SS-236

Trigpoint activation Using the trigpoint as a radio station©G4VFL

21st Oct 2021  15:39  by vegibagger

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 5/10

Next to one of about 215 massive windmills. Top slightly damaged

30th Jun 2021  14:30  by geoconaly

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 4/10

7th Feb 2021  13:04  by Tilbotron

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

7th Dec 2020  20:34  by John370

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

Has difficulty locating pillar but got it eventually

10th Oct 2020  11:10  by AFWFCL16

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

25th Apr 2020  15:13  by COVID Trig Point Challenge

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 8/10

Long uphill run from the house to get there, great run home as a reward!

27th Dec 2019  12:55  by monkeydestructor

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Parked at Ardochrig to the east and followed forestry tracks to trig. The barbed wire enclosure beside the pillar has gone.

TP2430 - Corse Hill ©monkeydestructor

21st Jul 2019  09:25  by CJO

Gridref: NS 59836 46475   FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Cap missing. Lots of turbines. Drizzle and wind picking up.

14th Dec 2018  19:12  by tummelv

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

Lovely views on a cold day

19th Nov 2018  14:10  by RBBC

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

13th Sep 2017  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: NS 59842 46465   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Walked in from NW from Carrot. Mapped track now part of a garden. There is a path leading to the mapped tracks just past the first tree on the left at NS 5767 4820

15th Apr 2017  18:47  by Aqueously90

Gridref: NS 59837 46466   FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Log #431. From east, parking before substation at Ardochrig. Relatively direct route following windfarm roads, pillar easily found. The fresh plantation didn't offer much cover from the wind, and it was surprisingly cold. Pretty boring following the roads, so took a different route back. Would recommend biking this one, not very interesting. Pillar offers wide views of central Scotland though, and would be cracking on a clear day. Pillar is in good condition with cap missing. Back to the car for 8pm. [ExP-299/MiP-35/Rev-6/BM-29/IS-43/Other-19]

FB
Pillar
Cap missing.

9th Aug 2016  14:00  by mm0veg

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 2/10

Corse Hill Lots of qrm from the turbines.©mm0veg

16th Jul 2016  16:00  by NormanW

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

3rd Jun 2016  11:35  by dugswell2

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

A lovely summer morning walk up from Carrot Farm.

7th Apr 2015  12:00  by ger

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

29th Dec 2014  14:20  by fasgadh

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 1/10

Now in the middle of a wind farm and the "phage" radar has been demolished. Ascent from Browncastle on a bike. Very good weather.

Corse Hill Beside the old radar enclosure©fasgadh
Corse Hill ©fasgadh
Corse Hill ©fasgadh
Corse Hill ©fasgadh

29th Nov 2014  15:00  by Sprog

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

14th Sep 2014  16:19  by Chris Mac

Gridref: NS 59837 46468   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

A long walk from the visitor centre.

24th May 2014  20:01  by g4wsb

Gridref: NS 59838 46464   FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Cycled from west along good track to below trig.

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30th Apr 2014  16:21  by Robert Phillips

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

23rd Mar 2014  12:30  by Johnoneill1916

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

Parked at Eaglesham village and walking in from Carrot house but you can park just before Carrot Houses shortening the walk by 5-6 miles. Good easy walking all the way to the top with great views all round of Arran, Arrochar Alps, Ayrshire, Glasgow and the Campsies :)

22nd Jul 2012  16:25  by Quadbarrel

Gridref: NS 59841 46467   FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Been here a few times as we have a geocache placed here, being the highest point in East Renfrewshire (GC2A4PK). The cache was placed a couple of years back when we were not logging out trigpoints, so about time we did! Cycled in from Ardochrig. A wet and windy day indeed today, but at least the widn was behind us on the way back to the car!

Flush Bracket
Circular Plate
Master QB on the trig...... ©Quadbarrel
View to the West
Colditz

12th Oct 2011  14:32  by Aye Jimmy

Gridref: NS 59840 46464   FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

From Laigh Alderstocks. Not a lot of ascent but the windfarm tracks are not very direct. Trig next to open, empty, but once well defended compound, barbed wire and still rotating CCTV camera. Must have contained something valuable or sensitive once?

Corse Hill Trig being watched on CCTV...
Corse Hill Location, no cap.
Corse Hill The FB.

24th Aug 2011  20:00  by Alan63

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

Ran up from Carot with German68.

10th Jul 2011  17:37  by Shunter

Gridref: NS 59835 46469   FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

Walked through from Carrot Farm. First visit since the windfarm was built. Geodesic dome long gone, but fence left behind? Good views all the same.

7th Jun 2010  21:35  by descarte1

Gridref: NS 59837 46467   FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Very good condition pillar on top of Corse Hill now slap bang in the middle of Whitelee Windfarm. Parked at Laigh Alderstocks farm to the south-east and followed the metalled road up towards the trig. Easy going. The forest on the OS map is now virtually gone so the views have opened up dramatically. Approached the trig towards a nice sunset, and views just amazing to Goatfell, Tinto, Campsies, Ben Lomond etc....as the sun set, nice night views of Glasgow and East Kilbride. Very peaceful spot. Pillar's cap is missing and not plugged. The south-ish sighthole is open, FB faces north-ish.

Corse Hill Trig with nearby turbine Corse Hill Trig with nearby turbine©descarte1

28th Jun 2009  16:00  by Am fear liath mor

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Nice walk from Carrot spoiled by the monstrous windfarm.

18th Apr 2009  17:51  by clochandighter

Gridref: NS 59839 46464   FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 9/10

Second visit. For GPS measurement and photographs. SITE VISIT: Parked at roadend by Carrot Farm, followed mapped forest tracks all the way. Pillar in good condition. Spider retained original centre cap with shallow engraved letters (since stolen). Flush bracket faces NW (329°). Vented through SE sight hole. Views include Tinto, Ailsa Craig, Duncolm Hill, Earls Seat, Meikle Bin, Dumyat and Ben Cleuch. Wind farm has appeared since my last visit. The golf ball is away.

S1604 - Corse Hill pillar & FB
S1604 - Corse Hill pillar & self.

15th Feb 2009  15:30  by andyc

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Walked up from Carrot along forest track and then new windfarm roads. Returned via Carrot Moor Farm to the north east for a change but route is not recommended due to boggy conditions and GOMLs at Farm.

13th Sep 2008  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

vgc, metal cap, shallow letters, at summit outside fenced compound. From NW (Carrot) mapped track to NS597470; wind farm track continues roughly on line of old track to summit (turbine 104 just below trig S1604). Thick mist.

4th Jul 2008  10:28  by milivaig man

Gridref: NS 59828 46462   FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

This is now the centre of the Whiteee Wind Turbine farm. We counted 57 turbines which are erected. Many more are being built and when completed there will be just under 200.

Trig Point & Turbines
Turbine Head ©milivaig man

30th Mar 2008  17:52  by stonestreaker

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 1/10

utter devastation, every kind of kobutushima earth machine about- sundays no work, but weekdays = health and safety hassle from the chief breadheads, they should all be made to watch Koyaanisquatsi as soon as they sign up to work here- mind, greed trumps all eh? massive bus sized diesel generator thrumming away at summit- with a huge emergency stop button, OH so tempting.

26th Dec 2007  11:45  by coinea

Gridref: NS 59840 46463   FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Hill is a construction wasteland. Network of trenches and roads around it. Plenty notices advising of buried HT cables. Construction vehicles and disturbed ground within 20m of trig, but currently OK.

S1604 Corse Hill TP
View from trigpoint

23rd Feb 2007  14:10  by campagvelocet

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 3/10

The radar station is being replaced with a new one in the Campsies because a huge wind farm is being built, apparently very close to the summit if the construction traffic I had to avoid today is anything to go by. Indeed work is taking place so close to the summit that a pile of earth on the edge of the construction site seemed higher than the pillar.

28th Dec 2005  12:51  by Fester

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

Nice crisp day with excellent views.Radar dome seems to have now disappeared.Passing today (Aug 2007) there was a huge crane visible on the summit so let`s hope the trig survives the wind farm.

13th Jul 2005  15:00  by kenny_0957

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

27th Apr 2004  11:45  by fasgadh

Gridref: NS 59843 46466   FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Intact and in good shape. Radar instalation on hill, Weather radar for Abbotsinch. Forgetable walk up a forest road. Mountain bikers about, including a scumbag with a puncture. Choob chucked away his old tube after repairing a puncture. Hope it got another in its new tube.. Prat!

Corse Hill
Corse Hill "The 'Phage"
Corse Hill Bits

10th Apr 2003  12:00  by iainmac

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Top has geodesic dome.

S1604

16th Nov 2001  12:00  by peregrinus

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

No details noted - simple hill, good view of Glasgow (lights by night + ?Ayr), telecom mast, spruce

17th Feb 2001  12:45  by arranc

Gridref: NS 59800 46400   FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

25th Jun 1996  12:01  by clochandighter

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

First visit. To record FB number. HISTORY: Pillar completed 22nd August 1936 costing £12.5s.3d. Computed as primary triangulation station PP329 in Figure 3 of the OSGB36 primary network in 1937. Levelled to second class precision in 1950. Last maintained by the OS in July 1978.

5th Mar 1995  00:00  by agentmancuso

FB Number: S1604  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

From Carrot. Went the wrong way first time and ended up at Myres Hill. Notorious GOML at Carrot, but easily avoided by purposely signposted route around cottage.

1st Jan 1970  00:00  by Kathleen McM

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