Innominate Hill

Today James and I had an adventure. We took “the road less travelled” and walked down the opposite side of the river from the Clyde Walkway. Our purpose was to see if we could find and ascend a small hill which James has noticed, across the river from his regular walk to Cuningar Loop. He calls it Innominate Hill because on the map it has no name! And also because there is a tarn in the Lake District where Alfred Wainwright's ashes were scattered, called Innominate Tarn.

We set off through the new housing estate which has been (and in fact is still being) built in the site of the old Hoover factory. We picked our way along the bank of the river where wild garlic is already growing in abundance. After a short but alarming climb up by the side of the bridge at Bogleshole Road, we entered into a sort of “industrial archeology” area near the steelworks, which had the ruins of brick constructions and rusting rails and pipes, all long overgrown by grass and brambles. We continued underneath the M74 bridge and finally arrived at our destination, our nameless hill, enclosed by the curve of the river and the motorway. James thinks that it’s probably a heap of industrial waste from the steelworks. From the top we had good panoramic views across to the city centre and the west end, and across the motorway to Rutherglen and the south side. We navigated our way back home via the deserted steelworks and agreed that, whilst no rural idyll, it had been a very interesting 7 km adventure.