England · Dartmoor National Park

Cut Hill

DeweySimm

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Height
603.8 m · 1,981 ft
Grid reference
SX 59817 82745
Coordinates
50.62744, -3.98339
County / area
Devon
OS Landranger
191
OS Explorer
OL28N
Summit feature
small cairn
Key col
SX 6013 8387 (559.4 m)

Access rights here

Conditional Right to roam: Right to roam only on mapped CRoW open access land.

Yes Wild camping: Lawful on the Dartmoor commons, confirmed by the Supreme Court in 2025.

Dartmoor commons: confirmed right to backpack camp

Following Darwall v Dartmoor National Park Authority [2025] UKSC 20 (21 May 2025), s.10(1) of the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 confers a public right to pitch tents or otherwise make camp overnight on the Dartmoor commons, as camping is a form of open-air recreation. This applies to the commons (not the whole National Park) — follow the park authority's backpack-camping map and code.

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 50.627, -3.983. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (604 m)…

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

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is small cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Abney level/Leica RX1250
Record revised
12-Jul-20
Drop measured from
SX 6013 8387 · 559.4 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 Cut Hill
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Fox & Hounds HotelHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house4 out of 58.2 km · NW
The National Trust Waterfall TearoomRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 59.1 km · W
DewerstoneRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 59.2 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

Cut Hill is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to High Willhays (622 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 559 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
Hangingstone Hill604.6 m3.9 km
Higher White Tor525 m4.7 km
White Ridge505.7 m5 km
Beardown Tors513 m5.4 km
Amicombe Hill585.8 m5.5 km
Great Links Tor589 m6.2 km