Hill walk routes to climb in SW Scotland - also coastal paths and National Scenic Areas with maps, pictures and other useful information based on extensive local knowledge
Portling to Castlehill Point - A Coastal Walk
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View of Portling and White Hill from Sandyhills to Portling coastal walk. View of Portling and White Hill from Sandyhills to Portling coastal walk. View of Portling and White Hill from Sandyhills to Portling coastal walk.
03 The first two pictures here were taken on quite a different day. They are taken on the Sandyhills to Portling coastal route. Where we parked at Portling is on the right of the above picture beyond the farm buildings. You can see the road running over the hill to Port 'O Warren Bay and the road dropping down (by the line of trees) to Portling Bay. The hill on the right of the picture is called White Hill (143 metres).
The second picture gives you the view down to Portling Bay and you can see that the two bays are separated by a knoll.
In the third picture we have walked down to Port 'O Warren and started on the coastal path which at this point runs across the south face of White Hill - so we are looking quite steeply down into Port 'O Warren Bay and the handful of houses that are around it. The knoll that we saw in the second picture is now on the left of the third picture. The sandy beach that you can see in the distance beyond the knoll is at Mersehead and the land you see in the distance on the right is the Cumbrian Coast, on the far side of the Solway Firth.
View of Portling Bay.
View of Portling Bay from White Hill.
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