Meikle Carewe Hill

#4591 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Meikle Carewe Hill is a landform in Aberdeenshire, Scotland within the Mounth Range of the Grampian Mountains. The peak elevation of this mountain is 266 metres above mean sea level. Meikle Carewe is a prominent landform visible from a number of coastal hills such as Kempstone Hill and Megray Hill; it also forms a major backdrop to the community of Netherley. ()

Coordinates: 57°1'9"N, 2°17'8"W

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Meikle Carewe Hill – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Stonehaven Open Air Pool, Doonie Point, Cowie Chapel, Cairn Mon Earn.

4.6 miSE
Water park, Amusement park, Sport venue
Stonehaven Open Air Pool, Stonehaven
117 min walk • Stonehaven Open Air Swimming Pool, Queen Elizabeth Park, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, is an Olympic sized heated open air public pool opened in 1934. It is the northernmost lido in the UK.
4.6 miE
Climbing
Doonie Point
118 min walk • Doonie Point is a rocky headland situated approximately 1.5 kilometres south of the village of Muchalls in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The clifftop of Doonie Point yields views to the north of Grim Brigs, Brown Jewel and the coast of Newtonhill.
4.6 miSE
Ruins
Cowie Chapel, Stonehaven
117 min walk • The Chapel of St. Mary and St. Nathalan is a ruined chapel overlooking the North Sea immediately north of Stonehaven, in the Mearns of Scotland, along the northern shoreline of Stonehaven Bay.
2.8 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Cairn Mon Earn
72 min walk • Cairn Mon Earn or Cairn-mon-earn is a hill in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
4 miE
Forts and castles
Muchalls Castle
102 min walk • Muchalls Castle stands overlooking the North Sea in the countryside of Kincardine and Mearns, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The lower course is a well-preserved Romanesque, double-groined 13th-century tower house structure, built by the Frasers of Muchalls.
4.6 miSE
Forts and castles
Cowie Castle
118 min walk • Cowie Castle is a ruined fortress in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The site lies at the northern end of Stonehaven on the North Sea coast. To the immediate south is the Cowie Bridge crossing of the Cowie Water. Evidence of prehistoric man exists in the vicinity dating to the Iron Age in the form of ring cairns.
4.2 miS
Forts and castles
Fetteresso Castle, Stonehaven
107 min walk • Fetteresso Castle is a 14th-century tower house, rebuilt in 1761 as a Scottish Gothic style Palladian manor, with clear evidence of prehistoric use of the site.
0.8 miS
Stela
Lang Stane of Auquhollie
21 min walk • The Lang Stane of Auquhollie is an Ogam-inscribed standing stone some 6 kilometres north-west of Stonehaven in Scotland. Situated on south side of Meikle Carew Hill at a height of about 140 metres above sea level, the stone is approximately 3 metres in height and 0.75 metres in diameter, an unshaped monolith of gneiss.
2.9 miE
Church
Cookney Church
74 min walk • Cookney Parish Church, now business premises within a converted listed building, was a Christian place of worship in the village of Cookney, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
4.6 miN
Archaeological site
Normandykes, Aberdeen
117 min walk • Normandykes is the site of a Roman marching camp 1 mile to the southwest of Peterculter, City of Aberdeen, Scotland. The near-rectangular site, measuring approximately 860 by 510 metres, covers about 106 acres of the summit and eastern slopes of a hill overlooking the River Dee and the B9077 road further south.
1.4 miSE
Archaeological site
Raedykes
37 min walk • Raedykes is the site of a Roman marching camp located just over three miles northwest of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. National Grid Reference NO 842902. It is designated as a scheduled monument.