Rogan's Seat

About Rogan's Seat

Rogan's Seat is a remote swell of moorland above Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales, flanked by Swinner Gill and Gunnerside Gill and lying near East Stonesdale. It is a high expanse rather than a shapely peak, sharing joint 17th place among North Yorkshire fells with Great Knoutberry Hill.

Access has been a point of contention: no direct right of way to the summit has been published by the grouse-moor landowners, though they have been tolerant of walkers. A bridleway track north from Gunnerside Gill provides the usual line, and the waterfalls in the lower gill lie about 2 km away. The view is limited by the breadth of the moor, but Great Shunner Fell, Ingleborough and Whernside show to the west.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Rogan's Seat (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 54.423, -2.126. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is no feature: ground 6m SSE of cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

21-Jul-24

Drop measured from

NY 8826 0689 · 478.3 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.

The Rogan's Seat group

One other listed summit sits in the same prominence group, with Rogan's Seat 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