England

Ayle Common

Ayle Common, 524 m, Northumberland
Ayle Common, 524 m, Northumberland. Photo by Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
524.1 m · 1,719 ft
Grid reference
NY 72418 50993
Coordinates
54.85299, -2.43113
County / area
Northumberland
OS Landranger
86 87
OS Explorer
OL43W
Summit feature
no feature
Key col
NY728524 (477 m)

Access rights here

Conditional Right to roam: Right to roam only on mapped CRoW open access land.

Permission needed Wild camping: Needs the landowner's permission — the Dartmoor commons are the only exception in England.

General position for England — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in England ·check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 54.853, -2.431. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

summit 200m NNE at NY 72463 51187 is 1m lower.

The recorded summit point is no feature. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Abney level
Record revised
23-Oct-23
Drop measured from
NY728524 · 477 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Rated places to eat within 10 km of Ayle Common
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
The NookRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen4 out of 53.3 km · SW
Alston Masonic ClubPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 54.5 km · S
The Turk's HeadPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 54.5 km · S

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

Which hill this one belongs to

Ayle Common is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Burnhope Seat (748 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 477 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks

PeakHeightDistance
Pike Rigg526 m3 km
Hard Rigg546 m3.4 km
Park Fell511 m6.1 km
Grey Nag656 m6.8 km
Alston Moor580 m7.7 km
Brownley Hill533.6 m7.8 km