England · Yorkshire Dales National Park

Brown Haw

Height
584 m · 1,916 ft
Grid reference
SD 99562 79916
Coordinates
54.21498, -2.00822
County / area
North Yorkshire
OS Landranger
98
OS Explorer
OL30S
Summit feature
small cairn
Key col
SD984786 (523 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 54.215, -2.008. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (584 m)…

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

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

ground 50m SSE at SD 99582 79865 and also 50m S SD 99560 79867 is c 0.75 lower.

The recorded summit point is small cairn. 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-Dec-12
Drop measured from
SD984786 · 523 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 Brown Haw
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
The Street Head InnPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 56.1 km · N
West Burton Village Shop and TearoomRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 57.1 km · N
The Racehorses HotelPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 58 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

Brown Haw is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Buckden Pike (702 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 523 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
Naughtberry Hill573 m2.6 km
Buckden Pike701.6 m3.7 km
Little Whernside605 m4 km
Harland Hill535 m5.4 km
Great Whernside704 m6 km
Dead Man's Hill545.4 m6.3 km