Din Fell

A modest grassy summit in the Roxburgh uplands, Din Fell rises to 529 metres above the Scottish Borders countryside. The hill qualifies as a Donald Dewey and Dodd, offering quiet walking on terrain that sees far fewer visitors than the higher ranges to the north and west. The approach typically involves crossing pastoral ground and moorland.

• •The name 'Din' likely derives from the Old English 'dun' meaning hill, making this a hill that's rather redundantly named 'hill fell' – a linguistic layering that occurred as successive cultures named the same feature without reference to what came before.
• •At 529 metres, Din Fell sits just within the Donald Dewey classification, which requires Scottish hills between 500 and 609 metres with at least 30 metres of prominence – a category that captures many of the Borders' modest but worthy summits.
• •The hill occupies relatively quiet country in the Roxburgh uplands, where walking tends to be solitary compared to the busier Pentlands to the north or the Cheviots straddling the English border to the southeast.