Little Whernside

About Little Whernside

Little Whernside is a 605-metre hill in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, lying just under three miles north-east of Great Whernside. It sits on the boundary between the Yorkshire Dales National Park and the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, forming part of the watershed between Coverdale and Nidderdale, and its highest point is marked by a cairn a few metres inside the national park.

The hill stands on private land, and no public right of way reached the summit until 1997, when a footpath was established along the ridge connecting it with Great Whernside. Following the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 it became open access land, and an ascent can be made from Scar House Reservoir.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Little Whernside (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 54.194, -1.958. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Record revised

06-Apr-22

Drop measured from

SE 0132 7680 · 526.5 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

Little Whernside is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Great Whernside (704 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 527 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