Hart Fell

About Hart Fell

Hart Fell belongs to the Moffat Hills in the Southern Uplands, north of Moffat and astride the boundary between Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders. Broad and rolling, it can be picked out from the M74 to the west, from parts of Dumfries and from ranges to the east.

Three sides of the hill slope gently, but the east ridge is steep and craggy and holds a deep corrie called Blackhope. Ascents commonly come up the southern ridge over Swatte Fell, and the round can be extended into the Hart Fell Horseshoe, a full circuit of Blackhope finishing over Saddle Yoke.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Hart Fell (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 Scotland — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Scotland ·check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 55.408, -3.401. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

NT133142 · 608 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.

The Hart Fell group

2 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Hart Fell as the independent hill at its head.

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