England

Hard Rigg

Height
546 m · 1,791 ft
Grid reference
NY 74984 48764
Coordinates
54.83309, -2.39097
County / area
Northumberland/Westmorland and Furness
OS Landranger
86 87
OS Explorer
OL31W
Summit feature
reedy knoll 5m NW of trig point on NE side of wall
Key col
NY761479 (501 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 54.833, -2.391. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (546 m)…

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

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

summit is under 10cm higher than trig point base; ground 70m NW at NY 74931 48802 is c 0.5m lower.

The recorded summit point is reedy knoll 5m NW of trig point on NE side of wall. 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
10-Dec-12
Drop measured from
NY761479 · 501 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 Hard Rigg
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Lovelady Shield HotelRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 52.5 km · S
Nenthall Country House HotelRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 53 km · S
The Turk's HeadPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 53.8 km · SW

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

Hard Rigg 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, 501 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
Ayle Common524.1 m3.4 km
Alston Moor580 m5 km
The Dodd614 m5.1 km
Pike Rigg526 m5.5 km
Brownley Hill533.6 m5.6 km
Park Fell511 m6.2 km