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Millfore
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Highest point
Elevation 657 m (2,156 ft)
Prominence 250 m (820 ft)
Listing Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim, G, D,DN,Y
Naming
English translation Scottish Gaelic: cold round hill
Geography
Location Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Parent range Minnigaff Hills, Galloway Hills, Southern Uplands
OS grid NX 47812 75455
Topo map OS Landranger 77

Millfore is a hill in the Minnigaff Hills, a sub-range of the Galloway Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. It lies northeast of Newton Stewart in Galloway Forest Park, Dumfries and Galloway. One of the less-visited of the Galloway Hills, it nonetheless provides excellent views from its summit over its neighbours and Loch Dee. Isolated from its westerly neighbours by the White Laggan glen, it is frequently climbed on its own from Clatteringshaws Loch to the east.

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