Balkello Hill
Location
Nearest town: Dundee
- Grid Ref: NO361394
- Postcode: DD3 0QY
- Latitude: 56.539015
- Longitude: -3.039045
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Terrain description
A varied area with extensive scattered quarry workings stretching over three main hills and one subsidiary hill. In the lower reaches, there is the Community Woodland with a network of paths, then an area with Scots pine woodland and varied open ground; then, higher, the largely open hill terrain in parts heathery and in parts providing good runnability.
Balkello lies about 5 miles north of Dundee, and the map covers the south-facing slopes of Auchterhouse, Balluderon and Eastfield hills, as well as the lower-lying Balkello Community Woodland.
This area has hosted a Scottish Orienteering League event in 2010, the British Universities Orienteering Championships in 2011, and the Scottish Score Orienteering Championships in 2013.
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