Walk: Waterloo Monument – view from the Heugh

📌 Ancrum, Scottish Borders
★★★

The 150-foot Waterloo Monument guides walkers to the top of Peniel Heugh: a volcanic outcrop a few miles east of Ancrum. The summit – 200 metres above Teviotdale – boasts a 360 degree panorama across Borders countryside, with the Eildon Hills prominent to the northwest and the Cheviots laid out on the southeastern horizon. The tower, commemorating the battle of the same name, dates to the early 19th century; it’s the second incarnation after the original monument collapsed.

📷 Chronological photo guide

🌍 Location

📌 Start / finish at Harestanes Countryside Visitor Centre, off B6400 1 mi east of Ancrum

🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NT 640247

🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.514437,-2.571978

🚌 Bus to Ancrum (1 mi)

🚗 Car park

📝 Key info

▶ 7 km / 4 mi | ▲ 190 m | ⌛ 2 hr

Features: 🏠 Harestanes Countryside Visitor Centre; △ Peniel Heugh (237 m); ✞ Waterloo Monument

⬤ Moderate | Clear paths & tracks, some narrow sections & a few confusing junctions (map required). Steady ascent to Peniel Heugh.

➡️ Anticlockwise circuit: start – Harestanes Countryside Visitor Centre – Woodside – Peniel Heugh & Waterloo Monument – descend through woodland corridor to northwest – Pond Wood – Divet Ha’ Wood – start

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🥾 On our last visit

Wildlife: A buzzard, noisy geese in the distance, grey squirrels, deer in Pond Wood. Biting clegs. Ripe raspberries as well as unripe blackberries & elderberries.

Weather: 25°C with hazy sunshine through high cloud sheet. Not enough wind to blow away the clegs!

July 2021