Hills of Britain and Ireland
OS Map of Ben Venue East Top
Height: 727m / 2385ft • Prominence: 32m / 105ft • Summit : rock 10m NNW of trig point remains • Trip reports (hill-bagging)
Allan Ralston - Loch Katrine 1
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16-Oct-23 • George Leslie - Est 1964 • flickr
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Allan Ralston - Loch Katrine 1
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16-Oct-23 • George Leslie - Est 1964 • flickr
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Stob Binnein, 1,165 metres, left, and Ben More, 1,174 metres, right, with its head in the clouds, from Ben Venue, 727 metres, above Loch Katrine, Trossachs, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
Commentary. “But now he's sighing, His heart is crying To leave those green hills of Tyrol. Because those green hills are not highland hills Or the island hills, They're not my land's hills And, fair as these green, foreign hills, may be, They are not the hills of home.” So goes the song, “There was a soldier, a Scottish soldier.” Well, these are the Scottish hills, nay, mountains. We had climbed Ben Venue from near to Brig o’ Turk in little over two hours. This image looks north across Loch Katrine, made famous by Sir Walter Scott, in his story, “The Lady of the Lake.” We can see Stob Binnein, 1,165 metres, 3,822 feet, the highest of the twin peaks, in shot, Ben More, with its peak still shrouded by cloud, is the tallest mountain in the area, at 1,174 metres, 3,852 feet. Purple heather, emerald ferns, bottle-green coniferous plantations on lower slopes and the blue shadows of passing clouds. Yes, this is definitely the Highlands of Scotland!
20-Aug-82 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
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Stob Binnein, 1,165 metres, left, and Ben More, 1,174 metres, right, with its head in the clouds, from Ben Venue, 727 metres, above Loch Katrine, Trossachs, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
Commentary. “But now he's sighing, His heart is crying To leave those green hills of Tyrol. Because those green hills are not highland hills Or the island hills, They're not my land's hills And, fair as these green, foreign hills, may be, They are not the hills of home.” So goes the song, “There was a soldier, a Scottish soldier.” Well, these are the Scottish hills, nay, mountains. We had climbed Ben Venue from near to Brig o’ Turk in little over two hours. This image looks north across Loch Katrine, made famous by Sir Walter Scott, in his story, “The Lady of the Lake.” We can see Stob Binnein, 1,165 metres, 3,822 feet, the highest of the twin peaks, in shot, Ben More, with its peak still shrouded by cloud, is the tallest mountain in the area, at 1,174 metres, 3,852 feet. Purple heather, emerald ferns, bottle-green coniferous plantations on lower slopes and the blue shadows of passing clouds. Yes, this is definitely the Highlands of Scotland!
28-Aug-81 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
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Mighty Ben More, above Tyndrum, head in the clouds, from Ben Venue above Loch Katrine, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
Commentary. “But now he's sighing, His heart is crying To leave those green hills of Tyrol. Because those green hills are not highland hills Or the island hills, They're not my land's hills And, fair as these green, foreign hills, may be, They are not the hills of home.” So goes the song, “There was a soldier, a Scottish soldier.” Well, these are the Scottish hills, nay, mountains. We had climbed Ben Venue from near to Brig o’ Turk in little over two hours. This image looks north across Loch Katrine, made famous by Sir Walter Scott, in his story, “The Lady of the Lake.” We can see Stob Binnein, 1,165 metres, 3,822 feet, the highest of the twin peaks, in shot. Ben More, with its peak still shrouded by cloud, is the tallest mountain in the area, at 1,174 metres, 3,852 feet. Purple heather, emerald ferns, bottle-green coniferous plantations on lower slopes and the blue shadows of passing clouds. Yes, this is definitely the Highlands of Scotland!
28-Aug-81 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
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Ben Lomond and the Arrochar Alps from the summit of Ben Venue above Loch Katrine in the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, Scotland.
Commentary. Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park is a protected area of magnificent and beautiful scenery. Here, from 2,385 feet above the glorious Loch Katrine we peer west to see the distinctive peak of Ben Lomond from the summit of Ben Venue (727 metres.) On the right horizon, fading in the haze, are the peaks known as the Arrochar Alps, above and to the north-west of Loch Long. Views in all directions leave the senses almost overwhelmed, but very impressed.
28-Aug-81 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
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Notes
- Data: Database of British and Irish Hills v18.2
- Maps: We use OS mapping for England, Scotland, Wales, and the Isle of Man. Sadly, Channel Islands, Northern (OSNI) and Southern Ireland (OSI) mapping isn't available online, so we use Openstreetmap.