Cnoc Sgriodain

Rising to 544 metres in the northern Highlands, this grassy hill sits in remote country near the Sutherland coast. The summit offers wide views across a landscape of lochans, peat moorland and distant peaks. Its modest height belies the character of the terrain, typical of the Flow Country's eastern margins.

• •The name Cnoc Sgriodain comes from Scottish Gaelic, where 'cnoc' means a rounded hill or knoll, and 'sgriodain' likely derives from 'sgrìod', meaning scree or loose stones, suggesting a hillside scattered with rocky debris.
• •The hill lies within reach of the vast Flow Country, one of Europe's most significant blanket bog systems, though Cnoc Sgriodain itself occupies slightly drier ground on the region's fringes.
• •As a Tump with 30 metres of prominence and a Dodd with 15 metres, this hill sits near the lower threshold of recognised classifications—modest by statistical measure but offering the solitude typical of Sutherland's emptier quarters.