England/Scotland border

Birnie Brae

Height
508 m · 1,667 ft
Grid reference
NT 87164 20684
Coordinates
55.47983, -2.20464
County / area
Northumberland/Scottish Borders
OS Landranger
74
OS Explorer
OL16E
Summit feature
no feature: grass and heather
Key col
NT879200 (477 m)

Access rights here

Border hill

This hill sits on the England–Scotland border, so different access law applies on each side: Scotland's right of responsible access to the north, England's CRoW framework to the south.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 55.480, -2.205. 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

flat summit area.

The recorded summit point is no feature: grass and heather. 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
10-Mar-07
Drop measured from
NT879200 · 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

2 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 Birnie Brae
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
The Border HotelHotel/bed & breakfast/guest housePass8.8 km · NW
Barrowburn Tea RoomRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen4 out of 510 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

Birnie Brae is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to The Cheviot (816 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
The Schil605.5 m1.7 km
Cairn Hill West Top743 m2.8 km
Black Hag549 m3.2 km
The Cheviot816 m3.6 km
Lint Lands510.4 m5.4 km
Comb Fell652.8 m5.6 km