📌 Touch Hills, Stirling
★★★
Gilmour’s Linn is an exceptionally attractive waterfall, mostly unsigned and concealed in woodland on the edge of the Touch Hills. What makes it particularly special is a wide cave behind the fall, sometimes referred to as “Charlie’s Cave” in a reference to Bonnie Prince Charlie, who may have once hidden here (but probably didn’t). The approach route involves quite a lot of road walking and becomes a bit complicated near the end, so a map and directions are provided further down this page.
⚠️ Important
There is no parking at Touch Filter Station, and the access road is private (see Ordnance Survey maps). Please park responsibly (more info below) and follow the 🔗 Scottish Outdoor Access Code.
🌍 Location
📌 On the Touch Burn 2 mi west of Cambusbarron
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NS 740925
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 56.108716,-4.027942
❌ No public transport within 1 mi
🚗 There is no parking at Touch Filter Station, and the access road is private (see Ordnance Survey maps). There are a few limited options much further back towards the junction with the main road out of Cambusbarron (Touch Road), but the best option is probably to park in Cambusbarron village around the Touch Road / Quarry Road junction, 🧭 NS 772925 / 🛰️ 56.109630,-3.975771
📝 Key info
⌚ Always open
🎫 Free
Download file for GPS💬 From Cambusbarron it’s a 3 mi / 75 min walk (each way) to the falls (⬤ Moderate) – see map below. Carefully follow the roadside verge west for 600 m until a junction with a minor road. Turn left and follow this (private) road for 2 km until the track junction immediately beyond the entrance to Touch Mollar Farm. Fork right (passing Touch Mollar Farm on its left side) towards Braehouse Farm. Continue ahead at the buildings at Braehouse, also passing these on the left side. Keep straight ahead beyond the farm, now climbing uphill (west) with woodland on either side, then along the right hand side of a field, and finally between two rows of trees. The track emerges from these trees at a faint crossroads; turn right (north) on a grassy path with some wet areas, soon descending towards Touch Burn. The path steepens on the final approach to the burn, with the falls just upstream from here. The falls are seen well from here, but entering the cave requires crossing the burn on potentially slippery boulders – not possible when burn levels are high.
