England

Monkside

Height
513.2 m · 1,684 ft
Grid reference
NY 68506 94983
Coordinates
55.24805, -2.49693
County / area
Northumberland
OS Landranger
80
OS Explorer
OL42W
Summit feature
trig point
Key col
NY 7124 9830 (450.4 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 55.248, -2.497. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (513 m)…

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

Finding the summit

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

Survey method
obvious summit
Record revised
08-Jun-25
Drop measured from
NY 7124 9830 · 450.4 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 Monkside
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
The Kielder TavernPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 55.5 km · W
Team Cycles Limited (North East)Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 55.5 km · W
The Black Cock InnPub/bar/nightclub4 out of 58.3 km · SE

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

Monkside is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Peel Fell (603 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 450 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
Wool Meath552 m5.1 km
Deadwater Fell569.4 m6.3 km
Peel Fell602.7 m7.6 km
Carter Fell579 m10.3 km
Hungry Law501 m12.8 km
Glendhu Hill514 m14.5 km