Hedgehope Hill

About Hedgehope Hill

Hedgehope Hill is the second-highest of the Cheviot Hills after The Cheviot itself, standing about 4.8 km from the Scottish border. Where The Cheviot is flat-topped, Hedgehope has distinctly steeper sides, and it gives open views in every direction.

It looms over the Harthope Valley, reached by a minor road from near Wooler, with Langleeford the usual starting point. Approaches also come from Linhope in the Breamish valley to the south-east, and the two Cheviot summits are sometimes combined in a single long round from Langleeford.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Hedgehope Hill (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 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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Daylight

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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 55.472, -2.090. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

Abney level/Leica Disto D510/Leica RX1250

Record revised

11-Dec-22

Drop measured from

NT 9320 1931 · 567.1 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Hedgehope Hill is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to The Cheviot (816 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 567 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