Cairnsmore of Fleet

A mountain massif of volcanic origin rising to the east of Newton Stewart in Dumfries and Galloway, Cairnsmore of Fleet is designated as a National Nature Reserve. It has two summits - Minnigaff (711m / 2331 feet) and Kirkmabreck (656m / 2152 feet), each named after the old parishes in which they fall. Cairnsmore of Fleet features in John Buchan's 'The Thirty Nine Steps'. Several plane crashes in the 1940s and one in 1979 are commemorated with a plaque close to the summit of Minnigaff.

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