England · Northumberland National Park

Yarnspath Law

Height
540.5 m · 1,773 ft
Grid reference
NT 88711 13544
Coordinates
55.41571, -2.17987
County / area
Northumberland
OS Landranger
80
OS Explorer
OL16E
Summit feature
no feature
Key col
NT893139 (506 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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Computed astronomically for 55.416, -2.180. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (541 m)…

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

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

ground 420m SW at NT 88426 13237 may be as high; ground 7m E is as high.

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

Record revised
07-Oct-20
Drop measured from
NT893139 · 506 m

Classification history: Dewey gives the SW top.

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 Yarnspath Law
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Barrowburn Tea RoomRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen4 out of 53.5 km · SW
The Rose & ThistlePub/bar/nightclub5 out of 57.9 km · SE
The Star InnPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 510 km · SE

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

Yarnspath Law 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, 506 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
Bloodybush Edge609.8 m1.7 km
Lint Lands510.4 m3.2 km
Windy Gyle619 m3.6 km
Cushat Law616.2 m4.1 km
Shillhope Law501 m4.1 km
Wether Cairn563 m5.7 km