Howden Edge · High Stones

About Howden Edge

Howden Edge, whose highest ground is known as High Stones, is the highest point within the boundaries of both the City of Sheffield and South Yorkshire. It lies on the Howden Moors in the northern part of the Peak District National Park, with Langsett Reservoir to the north-east and Howden Reservoir to the south-west, on land managed by the National Trust as part of the Nether Hey portion of its High Peak Estate.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on High Stones (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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Computed astronomically for 53.446, -1.719. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is small cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

23-Oct-23

Drop measured from

SK170980 · 487 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Howden Edge is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Kinder Scout (636 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 487 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