Newton Tors

About Newton Tors

The Newton Tors are large, free-standing rock outcrops forming the western rim of the Great Moor, which stretches from the market town of Wooler into the Cheviot Hills of Northumberland. The tors look down on the College Valley, and the 537-metre summit qualifies the hill as a Dewey.

Three separate outliers are known as Easter Tor, Wester Tor and Hare Law: Hare Law and Wester Tor are each measured at 518 metres, while Easter Tor reaches 438 metres.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Newton Tors (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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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 55.536, -2.147. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is ground 1m E 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-Mar-07

Drop measured from

NT902248 · 407 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

Newton Tors is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to The Cheviot (816 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 407 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