List of peaks in the Yorkshire Dales
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This is a list of the peaks in the Yorkshire Dales
Yorkshire Dales
The Yorkshire Dales is the name given to an upland area in Northern England.The area lies within the historic county boundaries of Yorkshire, though it spans the ceremonial counties of North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Cumbria...

. To avoid the list becoming infinitely long and arbitrary, only hills with more than 30 m relative height are included. This includes all Marilyn
Marilyn (hill)
A Marilyn is a mountain or hill in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland or Isle of Man with a relative height of at least 150 metres , regardless of absolute height or other merit...

s and Hewitts as well as many other hills. Marilyns
Marilyn (hill)
A Marilyn is a mountain or hill in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland or Isle of Man with a relative height of at least 150 metres , regardless of absolute height or other merit...

 are peaks in the British Isles
British Isles
The British Isles are a group of islands off the northwest coast of continental Europe that include the islands of Great Britain and Ireland and over six thousand smaller isles. There are two sovereign states located on the islands: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and...

 with 150 m
Metre
The metre , symbol m, is the base unit of length in the International System of Units . Originally intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the Earth's equator to the North Pole , its definition has been periodically refined to reflect growing knowledge of metrology...

 of relative height
Topographic prominence
In topography, prominence, also known as autonomous height, relative height, shoulder drop , or prime factor , categorizes the height of the mountain's or hill's summit by the elevation between it and the lowest contour line encircling it and no higher summit...

; Hewitts are peaks in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 and Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 over 2000 ft (610 m) elevation
Elevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....

, with at least 30 m relative height. There are 22 Marilyns and 28 Hewitts in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

Topographical
Topography
Topography is the study of Earth's surface shape and features or those ofplanets, moons, and asteroids...

ly, the boundaries of the Yorkshire Dales trace the flow of streams from the lowest points between it and the neighbouring regions of the Lake District
Lake District
The Lake District, also commonly known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous not only for its lakes and its mountains but also for its associations with the early 19th century poetry and writings of William Wordsworth...

, North Pennines
North Pennines
The North Pennines is the northernmost section of the Pennine range of hills which runs north-south through northern England. It lies between Carlisle to the west and Darlington to the east...

, Forest of Bowland
Forest of Bowland
The Forest of Bowland, also known as the Bowland Fells, is an area of barren gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat moorland, mostly in north-east Lancashire, England. A small part lies in North Yorkshire, and much of the area was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire...

, South Pennines
South Pennines
South Pennines is a region of moorland and hill country in northern England lying towards the southern end of the Pennines. It is bounded to the west by the Forest of Rossendale and the Yorkshire Dales to the north...

 and North York Moors
North York Moors
The North York Moors is a national park in North Yorkshire, England. The moors are one of the largest expanses of heather moorland in the United Kingdom. It covers an area of , and it has a population of about 25,000...

.

Hills are grouped as topographically as possible, according to their 'parent Marilyn
Marilyn (hill)
A Marilyn is a mountain or hill in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland or Isle of Man with a relative height of at least 150 metres , regardless of absolute height or other merit...

'. The parent Marilyn of hill A can be found by dividing the nearby area into territories, by tracing the runoff from the key col
Mountain pass
A mountain pass is a route through a mountain range or over a ridge. If following the lowest possible route, a pass is locally the highest point on that route...

 of each Marilyn. The parent is the Marilyn whose territory hill A resides in. Marilyns are given in bold, followed by the hills within their territories, which are delineated in the map.

In the table headers, H stands for height and RH for relative height.

Howgills

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
TCF-1 The Calf
The Calf
The Calf, at 676 m, is the highest top in the Howgill Fells, an area of high ground in the north-west of the Yorkshire Dales in the county of Cumbria. It can be ascended from the town of Sedbergh to the south, by way of Cautley Spout from the east, or up the long valley of Langdale from the...

676 383
TCF-2 Calders 674 33
TCF-3 Fell Head 640 c 86
TCF-4 Arant Haw 605 57
TCF-5 Simon's Seat 587 c 82
TCF-6 Hazelgill Knott 578 42
TCF-7 West Fell 542 c 47
TCF-8 Uldale Head 532 c 129
TCF-9 Hand Lake 500 c 42
TCF-10 Linghaw 500 c 36
TCF-11 Langdale Knott 477 c 36
TCF-12 Blease Fell 474 c 57
TCF-13 Winder
Winder
Winder may refer to:* winder , a device for transferring energy into a mechanical storage such as mainsprings or the weights of a longcase clock. Its supply may be the hand—most familiarly so—or an electric motor....

473 c 30
TCF-14 Brown Moor
Brown Moor
Brown Moor is a village in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England....

412 c 36

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
YSD-1 Yarlside
Yarlside
Yarlside is a hill in the Howgill Fells, Cumbria, England....

639 208
YSD-2 Randygill Top 624 131
YSD-3 Green Bell 605 48
YSD-4 Hooksey 586 c 71
YSD-5 Kensgriff 574 c 66
YSD-6 Harter Fell
Harter Fell
Harter Fell may refer to the following locations in England:*Harter Fell in Eskdale in the Lake District National Park, Cumbria*Harter Fell in Mardale, also in the Lake District National Park*Harter Fell in Lunedale, in the Teesdale district of County Durham...

521 c 119
YSD-7 Wandale Hill 497 c 111

West of Mallerstang

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
WBF-1 Wild Boar Fell
Wild Boar Fell
Wild Boar Fell is a mountain in Mallerstang on the eastern edge of Cumbria, England. At , it is either the 4th highest fell in the Yorkshire Dales or the 5th, whether counting nearby High Seat or not...

708 c 344
WBF-2 Swarth Fell
Swarth Fell
Swarth Fell is an approximately 1 mile stretch of high ground situated to the south of Wild Boar Fell, of which it is a continuation...

681 c 76
WBF-3 Little Fell 559 c 30
WBF-4 Ash Fell 385 c 77
WBF-5 Birkett Common 352 c 31

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
BAF-1 Baugh Fell
Baugh Fell
Baugh Fell is a large, flat-topped hill in the northern Pennines of England. It lies in the north-western corner of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, immediately to the east of the Howgill Fells and to the north of Whernside, the highest of the Yorkshire Three Peaks...

678 265
BAF-2 Bluecaster 345 c 41


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Stainmore Gap to Swaledale

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
RGS-1 Rogan's Seat
Rogan's Seat
Rogan's Seat is a remote hill located near East Stonesdale and Gunnerside Gill, in the Yorkshire Dales in England.It is a high expanse of moorland that stretches alongside Swaledale, Swinner Gill and Gunnerside Gill...

672 c 195
RGS-2 Great Pinseat 583 49
RGS-3 Calver Hill
Calver Hill
Calver Hill is a fell in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire, England. It composed of limestone and is situated at grid reference , near where the valleys of Swaledale and Arkengarthdale meet, the village of Reeth is located on its lower south eastern slopes, it reaches an altitude...

487 c 90

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
NSR-1 Nine Standards Rigg
Nine Standards Rigg
Nine Standards Rigg is the summit of Hartley Fell in the Pennine Hills of England. It lies near the boundary between Cumbria and North Yorkshire, a few miles south-east of Kirkby Stephen and approx 700 metres outside the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The name is derived from a group of standing...

662 157
NSR-2 High Greygrits 522 c 40
NSR-3 Moudy Mea 521 c 38
NSR-4 Long Rigg 413 c 37
NSR-5 Birkett Hill 405 c 31
NSR-6 Birkett Hill 383 c 34
NSR-7 High Out Wood 352 c 36

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
HVE-1 Hoove
Hoove
Hoove is a Marilyn in the northern Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England, near the town of Barnard Castle in County Durham. Its elevation is , and it is classified as a Marilyn....

553 179
HVE-2 Fremington Edge
Fremington Edge
Fremington Edge is a five kilometre long wall of crags and scree slopes that is situated to the north of the village of Reeth in Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, England. Fremington Edge stands where the dales of Arkengarthdale and Swaledale meet...

475 c 35
HVE-3 Gayles Moor 396 c 39
HVE-4 Weather Hill 392 c 35
HVE-5 Forty Acres
Forty Acres
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368 c 50
HVE-6 Hutton's Monument 303 c 35
HVE-7 Diddersley Hill 209 c 73

Swaledale to Wensleydale

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
GSF-1 Great Shunner Fell
Great Shunner Fell
Great Shunner Fell is the third highest mountain in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England, and the highest point in Wensleydale; at 716 metres above sea level.The Pennine Way passes over its summit, on the way from Hawes to Keld...

716 c 297
GSF-2 High Seat
High Seat (Yorkshire Dales)
High Seat is a fell in the dale of Mallerstang, Cumbria. With a summit at 709 metres, it is the fourth highest fell in the Yorkshire Dales, although outside the National Park, after Whernside, Ingleborough and Great Shunner Fell...

709 112
GSF-3 Little Fell 667 c 49
GSF-4 Tailbridge Hill 547 c 43

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
LLS-1 Lovely Seat
Lovely Seat
Lovely Seat is a fell in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire, England which reaches a height of 675 metres . It is situated at grid reference five kilometres north of the town of Hawes, and is part of the high ground which separates Wensleydale from Swaledale. It is the highest...

675 c 150
LLS-2 Oxnop Common 584 c 33
LLS-3 Pickerstone Ridge 565 c 80
LLS-4 Tarn Seat 551 c 57
LLS-5 Whit Fell 411 38
LLS-6 Barden Fell 316 c 78
LLS-7 Buck Bank c 191 c 52
LLS-8 Wood Hill c 156 c 38
LLS-9 Pillmore Hill 73 c 39

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
KSD-1 Kisdon
Kisdon
Kisdon, also called Kisdon Hill is a fell situated in upper Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire, England.- Geography and history :...

499 184


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West / south-west

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
CTP-1 Calf Top
Calf Top
Calf Top is an armchair-shaped hill in the western part of the Yorkshire Dales, England. It is located in the county of Cumbria, although Lancashire and North Yorkshire are not far away...

609 312
CTP-2 Castle Knott 538 55
CTP-3 Holme Knott 370 c 34

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
GCM-1 Great Coum
Great Coum
Great Coum is a hill in the Yorkshire Dales. Despite this it actually lies in Cumbria.Its neighbours include Crag Hill, Green Hill and Gragareth....

687 c 221
GCM-2 Gragareth
Gragareth
Gragareth is a mountain in Lancashire, England. At it is claimed to be the highest point in Lancashire, although Green Hill , 2 km north and on the Lancashire-Cumbria border, takes this title in List of English counties by highest point...

627 30
GCM-3 Barbon Low Fell 437 c 132
GCM-4 Hoggs Hill 430 c 32

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
WSD-1 Whernside
Whernside
Whernside is a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales and is one of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, the other two being Ingleborough and Pen-y-ghent. It is the highest point in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire,Mickle Fell in southern Teesdale is the highest point within the boundaries of the historic...

736 408
WSD-2 Blea Moor 535 c 112

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
IGB-1 Ingleborough
Ingleborough
Ingleborough is the second highest mountain in the Yorkshire Dales. It is one of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, the other two being Whernside and Pen-y-ghent. Ingleborough is frequently climbed as part of the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge, which is a 24-mile circular challenge walk starting and...

723 c 427
IGB-2 Simon Fell
Simon Fell (Yorkshire Dales)
Simon Fell is a subsidiary summit on the north east ridge of Ingleborough, a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales in Northern England.With a height of and a prominence of , it is classified as a Hewitt....

650 c 35
IGB-3 Park Fell 563 32
IGB-4 Moughton 427 c 63
IGB-5 Norber 408 c 31
IGB-6 Smearsett Scar 363 136
IGB-7 Feizor Thwaite 335 c 44
IGB-8 Windy Bank 126 c 54
IGB-9 Bull Bank c 92 c 33

North

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
GKH-1 Great Knoutberry Hill
Great Knoutberry Hill
Great Knoutberry Hill, also commonly known as Widdale Fell, is a mountain located near Dent at the heads of Ribblesdale, Dentdale and Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The Cumbria/North Yorkshire border runs over the fell...

672 c 254
GKH-2 Wold Fell 558 c 36

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
DFH-1 Dodd Fell Hill
Dodd Fell Hill
Dodd Fell Hill is a Marilyn in the Yorkshire Dales, in North Yorkshire, England....

668 230
DFH-2 Yockenthwaite Moor 643 86
DFH-3 Drumaldrace 614 66
DFH-4 Woldside 596 35
DFH-5 Snaizeholme Fell 546 c 41
DFH-6 Addlebrough 481 c 93

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
BDP-1 Buckden Pike
Buckden Pike
Buckden Pike is a mountain at the head of Wharfedale, a valley in the Yorkshire Dales, that stands above the village of Buckden. At , it narrowly misses out on being the highest peak in the area, the title instead going to nearby Great Whernside...

702 c 207
BDP-2 Brown Haw 584 61
BDP-3 Naughtberry Hill 573 44
BDP-4 Height of Hazely 553 117
BDP-5 Harland Hill 535 c 50

East

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
GWS-1 Great Whernside
Great Whernside
Great Whernside is a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales, England, not to be confused with the better known Whernside, some to the west. Its summit is the highest point of the eastern flank of Wharfedale above Kettlewell...

704 c 288
GWS-2 Little Whernside 604 c 79
GWS-3 Meugher
Meugher
Meugher is a hill in the Yorkshire Dales, England. It lies in remote country between Wharfedale and Nidderdale, in the parish of Stonebeck Down less than 1 km outside the Yorkshire Dales National Park...

575 c 36
GWS-4 Dead Man's Hill
Dead man's hill
Dead Man's Hill is an electronic, death industrial, martial, neo-classical and post-industrial band founded in 1998 by Bart Piette, originally with the name "The Klinik And The Mortuary"...

546 c 62
GWS-5 Simon's Seat 485 c 102
GWS-6 Woodale Moss 459 c 36
GWS-7 Greenhow Hill 428 c 44
GWS-8 High Crag
High Crag
High Crag stands at the southern end of the High Stile ridge which divides the valleys of Ennerdale and Buttermere in the west of the English Lake District. It is often climbed as part of a popular ridge walk, from Black Sail youth hostel, or from Buttermere via Scarth Gap...

420 c 33
GWS-9 Round Hill
Round Hill
-Canada:* Round Hill, Alberta* Round Hill No. 467, Saskatchewan* Round Hill, Nova Scotia-United Kingdom:* Round Hill, North Pennines* Round Hill, North Yorkshire, the top of Urra Moor* Round Hill, Oxfordshire, part of Wittenham Clumps...

409 c 112
GWS-10 The Old Pike 400 c 33
GWS-11 Nabs 314 c 30
GWS-12 Brimham Moor 301 c 48
GWS-13 Askwith Moor 300 c 32
GWS-14 Lindley Moor 292 c 118
GWS-15 Langerton Hill 278 34
GWS-16 Almscliff Crag c 213 c 34
GWS-17 How Hill
How Hill
How Hill lies on the River Ant within The Broads National Park in Norfolk, England.The large Edwardian building houses the Norfolk Broads Study Centre, an independent charitable organisation which runs residential environmental courses for groups of schoolchildren.The How Hill Nature Reserve is...

c 172 c 56
GWS-18 Crier Hill c 167 c 30
GWS-19 Walton Head Whin 159 c 55
GWS-20 Clip'd Thorn Hill 152 c 45
GWS-21 Horse Hill 127 c 32
GWS-22 Healthwaite Hill 115 c 41
GWS-23 Gibbet Hill
Gibbet Hill
Gibbet Hill is the location of, and name for the University of Warwick's southern campus, based close to the outskirts of Coventry, in the West Midlands, England....

80 c 33
GWS-24 Bilbrough Hill 48 c 32

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South

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
BKF-1 Birks Fell
Birks Fell
Birks Fell is a Marilyn in the Yorkshire Dales, near to Hubberholme in North Yorkshire, England. Birks Fell only became an official Marilyn in 2006 as it was resurveyed and discovered to be 610 m and not 608 m as previously thought. This raises it above neighbouring Horse Head Moor , making it the...

610 158
BKF-2 Horse Head Moor 609 c 31
BKF-3 High Green Field Knott 602 66
BKF-4 Blaydike Moss 510 c 33
BKF-5 Cam Rakes 503 c 113

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
PYG-1 Pen-y-ghent
Pen-y-ghent
Pen-y-ghent is a fell in the Yorkshire Dales. It is one of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, the other two being Ingleborough and Whernside. It lies some 3 km east of Horton in Ribblesdale...

694 c 306
PYG-2 Plover Hill
Plover Hill
Plover Hill is an area of moorland north of Pen-y-ghent in the Yorkshire Dales, England and connected to it by an unbroken area of high ground. Whilst the area is now on Access Land the main right of way footpaths come directly from the north off Foxup Road and directly from the south from the...

680 c 59

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
FTF-1 Fountains Fell
Fountains Fell
Fountains Fell is a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales, England. The main summit has a height of and a relative height or topographic prominence of and thus qualifies as a Marilyn. Its subsidiary south top reaches and qualifies as a Nuttall...

668 243
FTF-2 Darnbrook Fell 624 40
FTF-3 Grizedales 553 c 126
FTF-4 Rye Loaf Hill 547 c 44
FTF-5 Parson's Pulpit 538 c 124
FTF-6 Proctor High Mark 531 c 45
FTF-7 Black Hill
Black Hill
Black Hill is a hill in Morro Bay, California. It is a part of Morro Bay State Park. The hill is the second to last in a series of volcanic plugs called the Nine Sisters....

468 30
FTF-8 Great Close Hill 465 c 40
FTF-9 Warrendale Knotts 440 56
FTF-10 Abbott Hills 415 c 40
FTF-11 Weets Top 414 c 43
FTF-12 Malham Moor
Malham Moor
Malham Moor is a civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England....

411 c 30
FTF-13 High Hill
High Hill
High Hill, at 323 feet above sea level, is considered to be the third highest elevation in the state of Florida, USA. It is close to Oak Hill , the state's second highest point....

398 40
FTF-14 Hunter Bark 315 c 38
FTF-15 Newton Moor Top 291 c 32
FTF-16 Limekiln Hill 236 c 30
FTF-17 Hard Knot Hill 221 c 56
FTF-18 Winterley Cobba 220 c 34
FTF-19 Steeling Hill 218 c 33
FTF-20 Hellifield Haw 217 c 40
FTF-21 Haw Crag 206 c 57
FTF-22 Pot Haw Hill 202 c 31
FTF-23 Nutter Cote Hill 195 c 61
FTF-24 Acliffe Hill 179 c 38
FTF-25 Mickleber Hill 178 35

South-east

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
CCF-1 Cracoe Fell 508 310
CCF-2 Brown Bank 435 c 41
CCF-3 High Crag
High Crag
High Crag stands at the southern end of the High Stile ridge which divides the valleys of Ennerdale and Buttermere in the west of the English Lake District. It is often climbed as part of a popular ridge walk, from Black Sail youth hostel, or from Buttermere via Scarth Gap...

357 31
CCF-4 Elbolton 348 c 71
CCF-5 Kail Hill 303 48

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
SPH-1 Sharp Haw
Sharp Haw
Sharp Haw is a hill on the southern edge of the Yorkshire Dales, located just within the National Park. Being the last outpost of the hills before the broad Aire valley, and with a sharp summit from many angles, it is prominent and easily recognisable from much of the area to the south...

357 168
SPH-2 Rough Haw 339 c 43
SPH-3 Flasby Fell 283 c 41

ID Hill H RH Grid ref.
RBM-1 Rombald's Moor 402 244
RBM-2 Skipton Moor 373 c 137
RBM-3 The Chevin
The Chevin
The Chevin is the name given to the ridge on the south side of Wharfedale in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, overlooking the market town of Otley.-History and features:...

282 c 144
RBM-4 Baildon Hill 282 c 68
RBM-5 Haw Pike 252 c 35
RBM-6 Billing Hill 231 c 34
RBM-7 Tinshill Moor c 197 c 42
RBM-8 Garforth Cliff 104 36

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