Sighty Crag

About Sighty Crag

Sighty Crag is a 520-metre hill in the southern part of the Kielder Forest region of northern England, an area that also contains its fellow Marilyns of Peel Fell and Larriston Fells; the low valley holding the village of Kielder separates it from its higher and more shapely neighbour, Peel Fell. The summit is marked by a wind-worn outcrop of fell sandstone.

The hill occupies a particularly remote corner of northern Cumbria, although the Northumberland border runs over its north top only some 600 metres from the summit. With the nearest road four miles away, any walk to the top and back is at least eight miles long, and though not especially high, Sighty Crag is — in terms of distance from civilisation — the remotest Marilyn in the whole of England.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Sighty Crag (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 55.121, -2.627. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is outcrop. 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

06-Apr-22

Drop measured from

NY 6016 9727 · 222.5 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

One place 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 Sighty Crag group

One other listed summit sits in the same prominence group, with Sighty Crag 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