Walks from Dent station
9 listed hills have a summit within 8 km of the platform at Dent — the closest is Great Knoutberry Hill at 2.5 km, the highest Whernside at 737 m. Distances are straight lines, not routes: this page tells you a car-free day is possible here, and the planning is still yours.
- Station code
- DNT
- Grid reference
- SD764874
- Coordinates
- 54.28241, -2.36360
- Locality
- Dent
- Operator
- Northern Trains
- Entries & exits
- 9,598 · #2,375 of 2,589
- Hills in reach
- 9
Passenger figure is the ORR estimate of all entries and exits, April 2024 to March 2025 — a measure of how busy (or wonderfully quiet) the station is, not of train frequency.
About Dent station
Dent station serves the villages of Cowgill and Dent in Cumbria, on the Settle and Carlisle Line between Carlisle and Leeds via Settle. It is the highest operational main line station in England. Owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains, who operate all services, it is sited 253 miles 32 chains from St Pancras, measured via Keighley and the former line through Cudworth; its recorded usage for April 2024 to March 2025 was 9,598.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Dent railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0). Coordinates and the passenger figure come from NaPTAN and the ORR, not from Wikipedia.
The 9 hills within 8 km
Every hill from our dataset for which Dent is one of the 3 nearest stations. Follow a name for the full record — heights, prominence, access rights, live summit weather and daylight.
| # | Hill | Height | Classifications | From station | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great Knoutberry Hill | 672.5 m | HewittNuttallMarilyn+2 | 2.5 km | E |
| 2 | Wold Fell | 559 m | Dewey | 3.7 km | SE |
| 3 | Aye Gill Pike | 556.4 m | DeweyMarilynHuMP | 4.5 km | W |
| 4 | Baugh Fell - Tarn Rigg Hill | 678.4 m | HewittNuttallMarilyn+2 | 4.8 km | NW |
| 5 | Blea Moor | 535 m | DeweyHuMP | 5 km | S |
| 6 | Knoutberry Haw | 675.7 m | Nuttall | 5.5 km | NW |
| 7 | Redshaw Moss | 545 m | Dewey | 5.7 km | SE |
| 8 | Whernside | 736.6 m | HewittNuttallCurrent County/UA Top+3 | 6.4 km | SW |
| 9 | Great Coum | 686.4 m | HewittNuttallMarilyn+2 | 7.4 km | SW |
A hill 8 km away in a straight line can be a much longer day on the ground — and on rural lines the last train home leaves early and some stations are request stops with a handful of services a day. Check live times and facilities for Dent before you commit, plan the route on a proper map, and give the daylight planner your real finish time.
Hill data from the Database of British & Irish Hills v18.3 (CC BY 4.0). Station position from NaPTAN (Department for Transport, OGL v3.0); passenger estimates from the Office of Rail and Road (OGL v3.0). Distances and bearings computed by OpenFell, summit to platform.
Long-distance paths from this station
One waymarked long-distance route passes within 2 km of the station — a made line to follow out of the door, or a way to link this station to the next one down the line.
| Route | Total length | From station |
|---|---|---|
| Dales Way | 129 km | 0.7 km |
Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the station computed by OpenFell.
Daylight here today
- Sunrise
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- Sunset
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- Daylight
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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for the station. Walking to a timetable means walking to the light: set your turnaround with the daylight safety planner.
Plan the day
- Walking-time calculator — Naismith with terrain and fitness corrections.
- Access checker — what the land around here allows.
- Kit-list generator — packed for the forecast, not for habit.
- Dent on National Rail — live departures, facilities, engineering work.
- OS Maps · Google Maps