England · National Landscape

North Pennines

North Pennines is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England, known since November 2023 as a National Landscape. 58 hills from our dataset have their summit inside the boundary, topped by Cross Fell at 893.1 m.

Nation: England
Designation: National Landscape
Area: 1,985 km²
Designated: 1988
Listed hills: 58
Highest listed hill: Cross Fell 893.1 m

Access here

Designation is not an access right

National Landscape status exists to conserve the landscape. It creates no right to walk, roam or camp: what you may do on the ground is set by the ordinary access law of England, plus any local byelaws and restrictions. Full detail:access rights in England · check a specific grid reference.

The short version for England — right to roam: Right to roam only on mapped CRoW open access land. Wild camping: Permission needed — except on the Dartmoor commons. This is general information, not legal advice.

All 58 listed hills, tallest first

Every summit from our hill dataset whose summit point falls inside the designated boundary. Follow a name for its full record, live summit weather and daylight times.

Listed hills in North Pennines, sorted by height descending
#	Hill	Height	Classifications	Grid ref
1	Cross Fell	893.1 m	HewittNuttallTrail 100+3	NY687343
2	Great Dun Fell	847.5 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY710321
3	Little Dun Fell	842 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY704330
4	Knock Fell	794 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY721302
5	Mickle Fell	790.2 m	HewittNuttallHistoric County Top+4	NY806245
6	Meldon Hill	767 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY771290
7	Little Fell	748 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY780222
8	Burnhope Seat	747.8 m	HewittNuttallMarilyn+2	NY784375
9	Burnhope Seat - Trig Point	746.5 m	Historic County Top	NY787375
10	Harwood Common	715.2 m	Nuttall	NY795362
11	Dead Stones	710 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY793399
12	Melmerby Fell	709 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY652380
13	Great Stony Hill	708 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY823359
14	Chapelfell Top	700.3 m	HewittNuttallHuMP+1	NY875346
15	Backstone Edge	699 m	Nuttall	NY725276
16	Fendrith Hill	697 m	Nuttall	NY877333
17	Round Hill	686 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY744361
18	Westernhope Moor	675 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY923325
19	Murton Fell	673.6 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY752246
20	Killhope Law	673 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY819448
21	Black Fell	664 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY648444
22	Nine Standards Rigg	661.9 m	HewittNuttallMarilyn+2	NY825060
23	Long Man Hill	658 m	Nuttall	NY723373
24	Grey Nag	656 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY664476
25	Three Pikes	650.4 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY834343
26	Viewing Hill	649 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY789331
27	Tom Smith's Stone Top	637 m	Nuttall	NY655466
28	Fiend's Fell	634.9 m	Nuttall	NY643406
29	Tinside Rigg	624 m	Nuttall	NY775199
30	Long Fell	623.5 m	Nuttall	NY768198
31	Cold Fell	621 m	HewittNuttallMarilyn+2	NY605556
32	Bellbeaver Rigg	620.1 m	Nuttall	NY762350
33	Bink Moss	619 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY875242
34	Flinty Fell	614.6 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY770419
35	The Dodd	614 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY791457
36	Middlehope Moor	611.9 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY862432
37	Bullman Hills	610 m	Nuttall	NY705373
38	Thack Moor	609.7 m	HewittNuttallSimm	NY611462
39	Murton Pike	594 m	Dewey	NY734231
40	Roman Fell	594 m	Dewey	NY754203
41	Blotting Raise	592 m	Dewey	NY596495
42	Alston Moor	580 m	Dewey	NY750437
43	Dry Rigg	564.6 m	Dewey	NY906447
44	Iron Band	563 m	Dewey	NY837188
45	Nateby Common	547 m	Dewey	NY803053
46	Hard Rigg	546 m	Dewey	NY749487
47	Boltslaw West	541 m	Dewey	NY946449
48	Cuns Fell	539 m	Dewey	NY647367
49	Brownley Hill	533.6 m	Dewey	NY802506
50	Pike Rigg	526 m	Dewey	NY729539
51	Ayle Common	524.1 m	Dewey	NY724509
52	High Greygrits	522 m	Dewey	NY876088
53	Moudy Mea	519.8 m	Dewey	NY871115
54	Horseshoe Hill	519.8 m	Dewey	NY985448
55	Brownber Hill	519 m	Dewey	NY705275
56	Collier Law	516 m	Dewey	NZ016418
57	Great Knipe	514.9 m	Dewey	NY867144
58	Park Fell	511 m	Dewey	NY697455

Hill data from the Database of British & Irish Hills v18.3 (CC BY 4.0); boundary from Natural England (Open Government Licence v3.0) — © Natural England copyright, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right. Hills are assigned by summit position against a generalised boundary, so a top within roughly 100 m of the edge can fall on the wrong side.

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Safety notes — conditions change fast; build in margin.

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