England

Grey Nag

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
656 m · 2,152 ft
Grid reference
NY 66481 47603
Coordinates
54.82216, -2.52321
County / area
Northumberland
OS Landranger
86
OS Explorer
OL31W
Summit feature
trig point
Key col
NY650462 (616 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 54.822, -2.523. 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

Surveyor's note

trig point and large conical cairn within 2m of each other.

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

Record revised
28-Oct-01
Drop measured from
NY650462 · 616 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 Grey Nag
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
The NookRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen4 out of 53.5 km · NE
The Buffet Car & Ice Cream ParlourRestaurant/Cafe/CanteenAwaiting inspection5 km · N
Cumberland HotelPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 55.3 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

Grey Nag is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Cross Fell (893 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 616 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
Tom Smith's Stone Top637 m1.3 km
Black Fell664 m3.6 km
Park Fell511 m3.8 km
Thack Moor609.7 m5.5 km
Ayle Common524.1 m6.8 km
Blotting Raise592 m7.1 km