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
- Prominence
- 5 m
- 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
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 55.467, -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.
| Route | Total length | From 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |