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Milldown
Below Meikle Millyea to Milldown - geograph.org.uk - 207761.jpg
Highest point
Elevation 748 m (2,454 ft)
Prominence 90 m (300 ft)
Listing Tu,Sim, D,sHu,GT,DN
Naming
English translation Scottish Gaelic: Brown, Round Hill
Geography
Location Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Parent range Rhinns of Kells, Galloway Hills, Southern Uplands
OS grid NX 51616 82555
Topo map OS Landranger 77

Milldown is a hill in the Rhinns of Kells, a sub-range of the Galloway Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It is located immediately north of Meikle Millyea - between these two hills lie the Lochans of Auchniebut, a series of small water bodies at an approximate elevation of 650m - possibly the highest permanent water bodies in the Southern Uplands. As well as this, the hill is also flanked on its SW side by forest plantation - possibly the highest planted commercial forestry in the Southern Uplands. Like most of its neighbours, it is most easily climbed from the east at Forrest Lodge.

Subsidiary SMC Summits

Summit Height (m) Listing
Millfire 716 DT,sSim
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