England · Northumberland National Park

Wether Cairn · Wholhope Hill

Height
563 m · 1,847 ft
Grid reference
NT 94078 11625
Coordinates
55.39857, -2.09505
County / area
Northumberland
OS Landranger
80
OS Explorer
OL16E
Summit feature
trig point
Key col
NT933130 (496 m)

Access rights here

Conditional Right to roam: Right to roam only on mapped CRoW open access land.

Permission needed Wild camping: Needs the landowner's permission — the Dartmoor commons are the only exception in England.

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 55.399, -2.095. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (563 m)…

Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

cairn is lower.

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

Survey method
obvious summit
Record revised
23-Oct-23
Drop measured from
NT933130 · 496 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).

Rated places to eat within 10 km of Wether Cairn
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
The Rose & ThistlePub/bar/nightclub5 out of 55.7 km · S
The Star InnPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 56.9 km · S
Barrowburn Tea RoomRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen4 out of 57.4 km · W

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

Wether Cairn is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to The Cheviot (816 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 496 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

PeakHeightDistance
Cushat Law616.2 m2.5 km
Shill Moor528.8 m3.7 km
Bloodybush Edge609.8 m4.7 km
Yarnspath Law540.5 m5.7 km
Lint Lands510.4 m6 km
Shillhope Law501 m7 km