England

Great Stony Hill

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

Height
708 m · 2,323 ft
Grid reference
NY 82361 35934
Coordinates
54.71811, -2.27535
County / area
Durham
OS Landranger
91 92
OS Explorer
OL31W
Summit feature
ground on W side of trig point
Key col
NY811364 (654 m)

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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Computed astronomically for 54.718, -2.275. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (708 m)…

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

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

cairn is on E side of trig point.

The recorded summit point is ground on W side of trig point. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Abney level
Record revised
28-Oct-01
Drop measured from
NY811364 · 654 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 Great Stony Hill
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Cowshill HotelPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 55.7 km · NE
The Blue Bell InnPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 56.4 km · E
Barrington Bites Luncheon ClubRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 56.5 km · E

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

Great Stony Hill is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Burnhope Seat (748 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 654 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
Three Pikes650.4 m1.9 km
Harwood Common715.2 m2.9 km
Burnhope Seat - Trig Point746.5 m3.9 km
Burnhope Seat747.8 m4.2 km
Viewing Hill649 m4.4 km
Dead Stones710 m5 km