England/Scotland border · Northumberland National Park

Cairn Hill West Top · Hangingstone Hill

One classification here — Donald Top — belongs to a list OpenFell holds only part of, so it has no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

Height
743 m · 2,438 ft
Grid reference
NT 89572 19300
Coordinates
55.46746, -2.16649
County / area
Northumberland/Scottish Borders
OS Landranger
80
OS Explorer
OL16E
Summit feature
no feature: heather
Key col
NT897194 (738 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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Daylight
Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 55.467, -2.166. 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

The recorded summit point is no feature: heather. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Abney level
Record revised
08-Jun-09
Drop measured from
NT897194 · 738 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.

Long-distance paths past this hill

One waymarked long-distance route runs within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.

RouteTotal lengthFrom summit
Pennine Way 411 km over the top

Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

Which hill this one belongs to

Cairn Hill West Top 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, 738 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 Cheviot 816 m 1.7 km
Comb Fell 652.8 m 2.9 km
Hedgehope Hill 714.4 m 4.8 km
Bloodybush Edge 609.8 m 5 km
Windy Gyle 619 m 5.7 km
Cushat Law 616.2 m 6.4 km