Redshaw Moss · Snaizeholme Fell

About Redshaw Moss

Redshaw Moss, also known as Snaizeholme Fell, is a 545-metre hill in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire. It shares its name with Snaizeholme, a small side valley of Wensleydale noted for a tree re-wilding project and for its red squirrel reserve, the only place in the North Yorkshire part of the national park with a known red squirrel population.

The upper slopes of Snaizeholme, along with Ribblehead further to the west, rank among the wettest places in the national park: mean rainfall recorded on Snaizeholme Fell is around 1,957 millimetres (77 inches) a year.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Snaizeholme (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 54.257, -2.288. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is small pile of stones. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica NA730

Record revised

23-Oct-23

Drop measured from

SD812840 · 505 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.

Reaching Redshaw Moss by train

3 National Rail stations sit 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

Redshaw Moss is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Dodd Fell Hill (668 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 505 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