Cheviot Hills

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The Cheviot from Broadhope Hill
The Cheviot Hills are a range of rolling hills straddling the England/Scotland border between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. The Cheviot is the highest hill in the range at 2,674 ft (815 m). Other notable tops are Hedgehope Hill, Windy Gyle, Cushat Law and Bloodybush Edge. Of the hills mentioned, only Windy Gyle has its summit on the border. The rest are all within England. The English section is protected within the Northumberland National Park.

The Cheviots are also the northernmost range on the Pennine Way. The final leg from Byrness to Kirk Yetholm is the longest, and most exposed, on the whole route. The Way follows the high level Border Ridge (literally the England/Scotland boundary fence) for nearly 30 miles (50 km) after the ascent to the ridge from Byrness. The terrain is boggy and remote, and two mountain refuge huts are situated on the Way for those too tired or weather-beaten to continue.

The hills consist largely of a Devonian granite outcrop with andesite lava flows either side. The surrounding lower ground lies on carboniferous limestone.[1]

The topography of the hills leads to the summits generally having low relative height. Only three are Marilyns; The Cheviot itself, Shillhope Law and Housedon Hill, a small northern outlier. To the south-west the Cheviots merge into the Kielder Forest group of hills.

Otterburn Army Training Estate

The Otterburn Army Training Estate (ATE) covers about 230 square kilometres of the Southern Cheviots. It is owned by the Ministry of Defence (MoD), and used for training some 30,000 soldiers a year. Otterburn is the UK's largest firing range, and is in frequent use — artillery can be clearly heard from Lindisfarne to the north-east and Fontburn Reservoir in the south. Because of this, recreational use of the area is restricted, although it is possible for the public to use some parts of the estate subject to the relevant bylaws. The MoD publishes a booklet, Walks on Ministry of Defence Lands, which offers advice on this matter (see link below).

Peaks over 500 metres in the Cheviot Hills

The peaks marked with a warning sign () lie within the danger area of the ATE Otterburn artillery range.

Name Height (m) OS Grid reference Coordinates
CheviotThe Cheviot815NT909205
Cairn Hill777NT903195
Hedgehope Hill714NT944197
Comb Fell (peak to the east of the Fell)652NT924187
Windy Gyle619NT855153
Cushat Law615NT927137
Bloodybush Edge610NT903144
SchilThe Schil601NT869223
Catcleuch Shinpeak SSW of Catcleuch Shin579NT682052
Dunmoor Hill569NT967187
CurrThe Curr564NT850233
Wholhope Hill563NT941117
Beefstand Hill562NT821143
Thirl Moor 558NT806083
Mozie Law552NT828150
Carlin Tooth551NT631024
Limestone Knowe551NT672018
Hartshorn Pike549NT627017
Black Hag549NT861237
Scald Hill549NT927218
Carter Fell547NT672035
Yarnspath Law543NT884133
Newton Tors: summit537NT908269
Girdle Fellpeak at Girdle Fell near White Crags536NT697017
King's Seat531NT879173
Schill Moor528NT944153
Saughieside Hill, Black Hagpeak between Saughieside Hill and Black Hag528NT868241
Ravens Knowe527NT780062
Horten EdgePeak near Horden Edge 527NT786073
Preston Hill526NT923238
Scrathy Holes521NT638031
Newton Tors: Wester Tor518NT907273
Newton Tors: Hare Law518NT902265
Broadhope Hill517NT933234
Grey Mares Knowe516NT666003
Ogre Hill516NT777069
Lamb Hill511NT811133
Outer Golden Pot 505NT802072
Shillhope Law501NT873097

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References

  1. ^  Northumberland National Park Authority, n.d. "The topology and climate of Northumberland National Park."
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Cheviot Hills is a small residential district on the West Side of Los Angeles, California.

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Cheviot Hills is bordered on the west by Rancho Park, on the south by Interstate 10, on the north by Century City and Westwood, and on the east by Beverly Hills.
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The Cheviot is the highest summit in the Cheviot Hills in the far north of England, only 2 km from the Scottish border. It is the last major peak on the Pennine Way, when travelling from south to north, before the descent into Kirk Yetholm (and the first major peak
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For the hill and locale in New Zealand, see Hedgehope, New Zealand
Hedgehope Hill is a mountain in the Cheviot Hills of North Northumberland in North East England.
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Windy Gyle is a hill in the Cheviot Hills, right on the border between England and Scotland. It lies on the border ridge, and like the other hills in the area is rounded and grass-covered.
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Northumberland National Park is the northernmost national park in England. It covers an area of more than 1030 km² between the Scottish Border in the north to just south of Hadrian's Wall.It is one of the least populated and least visited of the National Parks.
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Length 429 km (267 mi)[]
Location Northern England, United Kingdom
Trailheads Edale
Kirk Yetholm
Use Hiking

Highest Point Cross Fell,
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OS grid reference NT770023
District Tynedale
Shire county Northumberland
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Kirk Yetholm is a village in the Scottish Borders, eight miles (13 km) southeast of Kelso. The Border public house in the village is the official end of the Pennine Way. It has for two centuries been the head-quarters of the Gypsies in Scotland.
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Devonian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic era spanning from roughly 416 to 359 million years ago. It is named after Devon, England, where rocks from this period were first studied.
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Granite (IPA: /ˈɡrænɪt/) is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granites are usually medium to coarsely crystalline, occasionally with some individual crystals larger than the
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Andesite (IPA: /ˈandəsʌɪt/) is an igneous, volcanic rock, of intermediate composition, with aphanitic to porphyritic texture.
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The Carboniferous is a major division of the geologic timescale that extends from the end of the Devonian period, about 359.2 ± 2.5 Ma (million years ago), to the beginning of the Permian period, about 299.0 ± 0.8 Ma (ICS 2004).
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Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite (calcium carbonate: CaCO3). Limestone often contains variable amounts of silica in the form of chert or flint, as well as varying amounts of clay, silt and sand as disseminations, nodules, or layers
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prominence, also known as autonomous height, relative height or shoulder drop (in America) or prime factor (in Europe), is a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains, also known as peaks.
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A Marilyn is a mountain or hill in the British Isles (including Ireland) with a relative height of at least 150 metres (492 ft), regardless of absolute height or other merit.
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The Cheviot is the highest summit in the Cheviot Hills in the far north of England, only 2 km from the Scottish border. It is the last major peak on the Pennine Way, when travelling from south to north, before the descent into Kirk Yetholm (and the first major peak
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Shillhope Law is a hill in the southern Cheviots, a range of hills in Northumberland, England. Shillhope Law is a relatively unremarkable member of this group; in common with its neighbours it has a small summit and steep, grassy sides falling to deeply incised valleys on
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Housedon Hill is a hill on the northwestern edge of the Cheviot Hills in Northumberland, England. It is the northernmost Marilyn in England, the summit lying only about 6 km away from the Scottish border, which runs to the north and east.
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Otterburn is a small village in Northumberland, 31 miles (50 km)northwest of Newcastle Upon Tyne on the banks of the River Rede, near the confluence of the Otter Burn, from which the village derives its name. It is part of the district of Tynedale in the county of Northumberland.
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Ministry of Defence (MOD) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces.
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Lindisfarne (grid reference NU125421 , ), (variant spelling, Lindesfarne), is a tidal island off the north-east coast of England.
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geographic coordinate system enables every location on the earth to be specified by the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system aligned with the spin axis of the Earth.
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The Cheviot is the highest summit in the Cheviot Hills in the far north of England, only 2 km from the Scottish border. It is the last major peak on the Pennine Way, when travelling from south to north, before the descent into Kirk Yetholm (and the first major peak
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