The Cheviot

About The Cheviot

The Cheviot is an extinct volcano and the highest ground both in the Cheviot Hills and in Northumberland, in the far north of England. It lies about 2 kilometres from the Scottish border, on the last few miles of the Pennine Way before the route drops to Kirk Yetholm.

Melting within the crust over 390 million years ago produced the volcanic activity that built the hill, forming a stratovolcano and pluton; heavy erosion has worked on it since. A number of watercourses radiate outwards from the summit.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on The Cheviot (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

Sunrise

—

Sunset

—

Daylight

—

Civil twilight ends

—

Computed astronomically for 55.478, -2.147. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is no feature: heather. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Record revised

03-Jun-24

Drop measured from

NT 4041 0064 · 258.5 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.

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 The Cheviot group

6 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with The Cheviot 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