Plover Hill

About Plover Hill

Plover Hill is moorland rather than a distinct cone, lying north of Pen-y-ghent and joined to it by unbroken high ground, so the two are often taken together. It rises between two side valleys of Littondale, with Hesleden Beck to the south and Foxup Beck to the north, and falls within the civil parish of Halton Gill.

The whole area is now open access land, though the principal rights of way arrive from the north off Foxup Road and from the south from Pen-y-ghent's summit.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Plover Hill (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 54.172, -2.232. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is two small stones. 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

04-Nov-13

Drop measured from

SD840742 · 621 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

2 waymarked long-distance routes run 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 Plover Hill 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Plover Hill is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Pen-y-ghent (694 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 621 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