Middlehope Moor · Burtree Fell
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- Height
- 611.9 m · 2,008 ft
- Prominence
- 41 m
- Grid reference
- NY 86269 43210
- Coordinates
- 54.78362, -2.21502
- County / area
- Durham/Northumberland
- Region
- North Pennines
- OS Landranger
- 87
- OS Explorer
- OL31W
- Summit feature
- no feature: heather
- Key col
- NY852432 (571 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 54.784, -2.215. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
cairn 20m W at NY 86252 43211 is of similar height; trig point 600m ESE at NY 86791 42960 is lower.
The recorded summit point is no feature: heather. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- Abney level/Leica RX1250
- Record revised
- 08-May-25
- Drop measured from
- NY852432 · 571 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).
| Place | Type | Rating | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Allenheads Inn | Pub/bar/nightclub | 5 out of 5 | 2.2 km · N |
| Cowshill Hotel | Pub/bar/nightclub | 5 out of 5 | 2.7 km · S |
| The Hemmel Cafe | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 2.8 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
Middlehope Moor 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, 571 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Killhope Law | 673 m | 4.6 km |
| Dry Rigg | 564.6 m | 4.7 km |
| The Dodd | 614 m | 7.5 km |
| Dead Stones | 710 m | 7.6 km |
| Great Stony Hill | 708 m | 8.2 km |
| Boltslaw West | 541 m | 8.5 km |