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2 A few metres to the right, take a narrow path in the heather leading over to the north end of Bonaly Reservoir dam. Either walk along the top of the dam, or around the reservoir and then cross the spillway with care. From the spillway go right and then through a gate in the gap in the trees. Turn right here and follow a muddy path along the edge of the trees by a fence and dyke.

The prevailing westerly winds are often quite strong at Bonaly Reservoir, and it is fairly unsheltered, despite the encircling trees, but it is home to mallard ducks, redshanks and goldeneye, as well as common blue damselflies and common frogs.

3 Keep on this path as it starts to climb Harbour Hill – the ground can be boggy in places, especially near the flattish summit.

The name ‘Harbour’ is perhaps from the Anglian heorde-beorg, which means ‘hill of’ (or ‘for’) ‘flocks or herds’, ie a grazing where stock could be gathered before being shorn or driven to market (see S Harris, bibliography). Baldwin and Drummond suggest it was shown as Torbrack on Armstrong’s map of 1773, meaning ‘speckled hillock’ from the Gaelic torr breac.