Where is The Cheviot Hills?

The Cheviot Hills is in North-East England, United Kingdom.

How do I get to The Cheviot Hills?

Its coordinates are 55.4780°, -2.1520°.

Is The Cheviot Hills a protected site?

Yes — The Cheviot Hills is part of the The Cheviot SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the Tweed Catchment Rivers - England: Till Catchment SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Is The Cheviot Hills free to visit?

Yes, The Cheviot Hills is free to enter.

National parks · North East England

The Cheviot Hills

In or near Akeld.

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The Cheviot Hills in England North East, United Kingdom.

Cheviot summit with prayer flags - geograph.org.uk - 1421276 — Stephen Craven — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

Plan your visit

Typical visit: 4 h–8 h
Best time of year: Spring – autumn (Apr–Oct)

Free entry
Family-friendly
Dog-friendly

The Cheviot Hills is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Protected designations

Site of Special Scientific Interest: The Cheviot SSSI
Site of Special Scientific Interest: Tweed Catchment Rivers - England: Till Catchment SSSI

Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.

From the Wikipedia article

The Cheviot Hills (), or sometimes The Cheviots, are a range of uplands straddling the Anglo-Scottish border between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. The English section is within the Northumberland National Park. The range includes The Cheviot (the highest hill), plus Hedgehope Hill to the east, Windy Gyle to the west, and Cushat Law and Bloodybush Edge to the south. The hills are sometimes considered a part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland as they adjoin the uplands to the north. Since the Pennine Way runs through the region, the hills are also considered a part of the northern Pennines although they are separated from the Cheviot Hills by the Tyne Gap, part of which lies within the southern extent of the Northumberland National Park. The Cheviot Hills are primarily associated with geological activity from approximately 480 to 360 million years ago, when the continents of Avalonia and Laurentia collided, resulting in extensive volcanic activity (the Caledonian orogeny) which created a granite outcrop surrounded by lava flows. The area enjoys a general right to roam under both the English Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 and the Scottish Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003. The Southern Cheviots include the Otterburn Training Area, the UK's largest firing range, where the Ministry of Defence train up to 30,000 soldiers a year. The area is the traditional home of the Cheviot sheep breed. It is also the home of Cheviot primitive feral goats, classified as a "Native Breed at Risk".

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Background

History

in the northern Cheviots, near Hethpool]] To the south of the Cheviot hills was the site of the Battle of Otterburn in 1388, and possibly a separate bloody battle between English and Scottish forces, after which only 110 people survived, which is described in "The Ballad of Chevy Chase". The origin of the border skirmishes between Percy, the Earl of Northumberland, and the Scottish Earl of Douglas may have been a hunt that strayed into Scotland and was interpreted as an invasion. Two other related battles were the Battle of Homildon Hill, fought within the Cheviots near Wooler in 1402, and the Battle of Hedgeley Moor, fought north of Powburn in 1464.

Description

The Cheviot is the highest hill in the range, and in the whole of Northumberland, at 815 m. Other notable tops are Hedgehope Hill (714 m), Windy Gyle (619 m), Cushat Law (616 m) and Bloodybush Edge (610 m). 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. Although many of the summits top 500 m, most have a relatively low prominence. Only three rise 150 m or more above the surrounding terrain: The Cheviot itself, Shillhope Law and Housedon Hill, a small northern outlier (see Marilyn). To the southwest the Cheviots merge into the Kielder Forest group of hills. and…

Visiting

Most of the range on the English side is mapped as 'open country' and hence there is a general right to roam over it as prescribed in the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. Traditional rights of access in Scotland, bolstered by the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003, provide for similar access for the public to the north of the border. In addition, a sparse network of public bridleways and footpaths stretches around the area, often providing useful means of access from the lower ground onto the open hills. The northernmost leg of the Pennine Way runs from Byrness in England to Kirk Yetholm in Scotland. It is the longest, and most exposed, on the whole of the national trail. The Way…

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Coordinates: 55.4780, -2.1520
Address: Northumberland, England

Sources

wikidata: Q383335 (CC0)
wikipedia: Cheviot Hills (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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