Criffel
Criffel is a hill in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It is 570 m high but appears higher because of its great isolation and high prominence.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: ally McGurk, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,867 feet
- Description: hill in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Criffell” and “Criffell Hill”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include New Abbey and Bankend.
New Abbey
Village
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
New Abbey is a village in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is 6 miles south of Dumfries. The summit of the prominent hill Criffel is 2.5 miles to the south.
Bankend
Hamlet
Photo: James Yardley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bankend is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is located near Lochar Water, the civil parish Caerlaverock and the villages of Blackshaw, Glencaple and Shearington. In 1961 it had a population of 79. Bankend is situated 6 miles northeast of Criffel.
Criffel
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.94048° or 54° 56′ 26″ northLongitude
-3.6295° or 3° 37′ 46″ westElevation
1,867 feet (569 metres)Open location code
9C6RW9RC+55OpenStreetMap ID
node 36318945OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Criffel” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Criffell”
- Dutch: “Criffel”
- Dutch: “Criffell”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كريفيل”
- French: “Criffel”
- Scots: “Criffel”
- Swedish: “Criffell”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Criffel”. Photo: ally McGurk, CC BY-SA 2.0.