England

Horseshoe Hill

Height
519.8 m · 1,705 ft
Grid reference
NY 98510 44872
Coordinates
54.79874, -2.02470
County / area
Durham
OS Landranger
87
OS Explorer
307
Summit feature
no feature 25m SSW of trig point
Key col
NY972450 (484 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 54.799, -2.025. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (520 m)…

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

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

summit is 23cm higher than trig point base and 15cm higher than ground 5m W of trig point (NY 98523 44893).

The recorded summit point is no feature 25m SSW of trig point. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Leica NA730
Record revised
23-Oct-23
Drop measured from
NY972450 · 484 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 Horseshoe Hill
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Grey Bull InnPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 55.6 km · S
Roots of IndiaTakeaway/sandwich shopAwaiting inspection5.8 km · S
Lord Crewe ArmsPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 55.8 km · N

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

Horseshoe 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, 484 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
Boltslaw West541 m3.9 km
Collier Law516 m4.4 km
Dry Rigg564.6 m7.8 km
Middlehope Moor611.9 m12.3 km
Westernhope Moor675 m13.8 km
Chapelfell Top700.3 m15 km