Meugher

About Meugher

Meugher is a hill in the Yorkshire Dales, England, in a remote stretch of country between Wharfedale and Nidderdale, just under a kilometre outside the Yorkshire Dales National Park but within the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Its conical peak is topped by an Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar, and it has been described as perhaps the remotest and least inviting summit in the Dales. Meugher Dyke drains its southern flank, Back Stean Gill the eastern, and Cross Gill the western and northern flanks, all within the Nidderdale drainage area.

No public rights of way approach the summit, but the hill has been open access land since the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000; a shooting track from near Lofthouse now comes within about 430 metres of the top, and a public footpath from Middlesmoor to Conistone passes a mile to the north-west. First recorded as Magare in 1120, the name probably comes from the Old Norse mjór haugr, meaning 'small hill'.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Meugher (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 54.130, -1.934. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is no feature: ground 10m NW of trig point. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

10-Nov-08

Drop measured from

SE029711 · 539 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

Meugher 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, 539 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