Clough Head

About Clough Head

Clough Head marks the northern end of the main Helvellyn ridge and is commonly walked as part of that traverse. It stands south of Threlkeld and the A66, and forms the steep eastern wall of the quiet valley of St John's in the Vale.

The two flanks are quite unalike: the western side shows a dark mass of rocky crags and a deep-set ravine, while the other side is smooth grass. The name comes from the clough, the steep valley below the north face. Beneath that same face is the lower granite hill of Threlkeld Knotts, much quarried around its margins, and a number of rock types formed in very different circumstances occur on and around the fell.

The summit reaches 726 m and carries Wainwright, Hewitt, Nuttall, HuMP and Simm status.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Clough Head (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

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 54.594, -3.032. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is trig point/wind shelter. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit

Record revised

20-Nov-09

Drop measured from

NY331214 · 618 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).

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

Clough Head is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Helvellyn (950 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 618 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.

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