- Height
- 508 m · 1,667 ft
- Prominence
- 31 m
- Grid reference
- NT 87164 20684
- Coordinates
- 55.47983, -2.20464
- County / area
- Northumberland/Scottish Borders
- Region
- Northumberland
- OS Landranger
- 74
- OS Explorer
- OL16E
- Summit feature
- no feature: grass and heather
- Key col
- NT879200 (477 m)
Access rights here
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
- Sunrise
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- Sunset
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- Daylight
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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for 55.480, -2.205. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (508 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
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).
| Place | Type | Rating | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Border Hotel | Hotel/bed & breakfast/guest house | Pass | 8.8 km · NW |
| Barrowburn Tea Room | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 4 out of 5 | 10 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| The Schil | 605.5 m | 1.7 km |
| Cairn Hill West Top | 743 m | 2.8 km |
| Black Hag | 549 m | 3.2 km |
| The Cheviot | 816 m | 3.6 km |
| Lint Lands | 510.4 m | 5.4 km |
| Comb Fell | 652.8 m | 5.6 km |