Merrick
The Merrick is a mountain in the Range of the Awful Hand, a sub-range of the Galloway Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. The summit elevation is 843 metres, making it the highest mountain in the Southern Uplands and southern Scotland.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,766 feet
- Description: 843m high mountain in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Beinn Meurach”, “Beinn Mheurach”, and “The Merrick”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kirriereoch Hill and Benyellary.
Merrick
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.1393° or 55° 8′ 22″ north
Longitude
-4.46848° or 4° 28′ 7″ west
Elevation
2,766 feet (843 metres)
Open location code
9C7Q4GQJ+PJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Merrick” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Merrick (Galloway)”
- Basque: “Merrick”
- Breton: “A‘ Bheinn Mheurach”
- Cebuano: “Merrick”
- Cornish: “A‘ Bheinn Mheurach”
- Dutch: “Merrick”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ميريك”
- French: “Merrick”
- German: “Merrick”
- Hungarian: “Merrick”
- Irish: “A‘ Bheinn Mheurach”
- Irish: “A‘ Mhearag”
- Japanese: “メリック山”
- Ladin: “Merrick”
- Latvian: “Meriks”
- Manx: “A‘ Bheinn Mheurach”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Merrick i Galloway”
- Polish: “Merrick”
- Russian: “Меррик (гора)”
- Russian: “Меррик”
- Scots: “Merrick”
- Scots: “The Merrick”
- Scottish Gaelic: “A‘ Bheinn Mheurach”
- Scottish Gaelic: “A‘ Mhearag”
- Scottish Gaelic: “A’ Mhearag”
- Spanish: “Merrick”
- Swedish: “Merrick”
- Turkish: “Merrick Dağı”
- Welsh: “A‘ Bheinn Mheurach”
- Welsh: “Mearaig”
- “A‘ Bheinn Mheurach”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Eldrick and Kirriemore.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Balminnoch and Balminoch Loch.
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