Nine Standards Rigg

About Nine Standards Rigg

Nine Standards Rigg is the summit of Hartley Fell, a few miles south-east of Kirkby Stephen and roughly 700 m outside the Yorkshire Dales National Park, within the North Pennines AONB and near the Cumbria-North Yorkshire boundary. Alan Dawson's The Hewitts and Marilyns of England lists the fell under this name rather than as Hartley Fell.

The name comes from the Nine Standards, a group of cairns standing at 650 m just north of the summit, some originally over four metres high. Their purpose is uncertain, though they may have marked the boundary between Westmorland and Swaledale. They sit on the watershed between the Eden headwaters draining to Scandal Beck in the north-west and Whitsundale Beck feeding the Swale to the south-east. The Coast to Coast Walk between Kirkby Stephen and Keld passes them.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Nine Standards Rigg (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 54.450, -2.270. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is no feature: ground 20m SE 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

21-Jul-24

Drop measured from

NY 8096 0399 · 502.9 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.

Long-distance paths past this hill

One waymarked long-distance route runs within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.

Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

Reaching Nine Standards Rigg by train

One National Rail station sits within 8 km of the summit — close enough to make a car-free day of it. Distances are straight lines, not walking routes.

Each station page lists every hill in its reach, long-distance paths from the door and a live-times link — see all stations with hills in reach. Station positions from NaPTAN (OGL v3.0).

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.

The Nine Standards Rigg group

2 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Nine Standards Rigg as the independent hill at its head.

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