Ryder's Hill

About Ryder's Hill

Ryder's Hill, at 515 metres, is the highest point on the southern part of Dartmoor in Devon, England, and its summit offers good views over the southern moor. On the top are two standing stones and a low cairn surmounted by a triangulation pillar; one of the stones, Petre's Bound Stone, marks the meeting point of the three civil parishes of Dartmoor Forest, Holne and Buckfastleigh.

The summit cairn, though not very prominent, has an important history: it was one of the boundary markers of the Forest of Dartmoor mentioned in the Perambulation of 1240, and has been known as 'Knattleborough', in various spellings, since at least the seventeenth century. The hill can be reached by walking up Holne Ridge from Combestone Tor, past Horn's Cross, a distance of about three kilometres.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Ryder's 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 50.506, -3.891. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is embedded rock 2m from trig point. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit

Record revised

10-Mar-07

Drop measured from

SX603699 · 406 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

Ryder's Hill is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to High Willhays (622 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 406 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