Brown Willy
3 classifications here — Current County/UA Top, Marilyn and HuMP — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 420 m · 1,378 ft
- Prominence
- 322 m
- Grid reference
- SX 15874 80004
- Coordinates
- 50.59059, -4.60272
- County / area
- Cornwall
- County top
- Highest point of Cornwall
- Region
- South West England
- OS Landranger
- 201
- OS Explorer
- 109
- Summit feature
- trig point and cairn
- Key col
- SS 2687 0152 (97.7 m)
About Brown Willy
Brown Willy is the highest point of Bodmin Moor and of Cornwall as a whole, its summit at 420 metres lying about 4 km north-west of Bolventor and 6 km south-east of Camelford.
Its outline changes markedly with the angle of view. Seen from the north it has the conical look of a sugarloaf, but from closer in it opens out into a long crest with several tops.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Brown Willy (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.
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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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for 50.591, -4.603. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (420 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
cairn is 4m E of trig point.
The recorded summit point is trig point and cairn. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- obvious summit
- Record revised
- 03-Jun-24
- Drop measured from
- SS 2687 0152 · 97.7 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).
| Place | Type | Rating | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roughtor Tea Room | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 3.6 km · NW |
| Jamaica Inn | Hotel/bed & breakfast/guest house | 5 out of 5 | 4.1 km · SE |
| The Rising Sun Inn | Pub/bar/nightclub | 5 out of 5 | 5.7 km · NE |
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.