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Cheviot Hills

The Cheviot Hills are a range of rolling hills straddling the England

England

Scotland

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border between Northumberland

Northumberland

Northumberland is a Counties of England in the North East England of England. The non-metropolitan counties of England of Northumberland borders Cumbria to the west, County Durham to the south and Tyne and Wear to the south east, as well as having a border with the Scottish Borders council area to the north, and nearly eighty miles of Nort...
and the Scottish Borders

Scottish Borders

The Scottish Borders , often referred to simply as the Borders, is one of 32 local government Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. It is bordered by Dumfries and Galloway in the west, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian in the north west, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian to the north; and the Metropolitan and non-metropolit...
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Broadly there is a split between the Northern Cheviots which encompass most of the high ground and has five main valleys The Southern Cheviot hills encompass the slopes running down to the valley of the river Cocquet.

The Cheviot

The Cheviot

The Cheviot is the highest Summit in the Cheviot Hills in the far north of England, only 2 km from the Scotland border. It is the last major peak on the Pennine Way, when travelling from south to north, before the descent into Kirk Yetholm ....
is the highest hill in the range at 2,674 ft (815 m).

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The Cheviot Hills are a range of rolling hills straddling the England

England

Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
border between Northumberland

Northumberland

Scottish Borders

College Valley
College Valley

The College Valley is one of five cutting into the Cheviot_Hills. The valley is owned by College Valley Estates which in turn is funded by a trust created by Sir James Knott ....
Harthope
Breamish
Breamish

Breamish is a village in Northumberland, England.Governance References...
Bowmont
and the Heatherhope valley.

The Southern Cheviot hills encompass the slopes running down to the valley of the river Cocquet.

The Cheviot

The Cheviot

Hedgehope Hill

Hedgehope Hill is a mountain in the Cheviot Hills of North Northumberland in North East England.At a height of and a distance of about from the Scotland border, it is best climbed from Langleeford in the Harthorpe Valley which it looms over....
, Windy Gyle

Windy Gyle

Windy Gyle is a hill in the Cheviot Hills, right on Anglo-Scottish border between England and Scotland. It lies on the border ridge, and like the other hills in the area is rounded and grass-covered....
, 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

Northumberland National Park

Northumberland National Park is the northernmost National Parks of England and Wales in England. It covers an area of more than 1030 km? between the Scotland 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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The Cheviots are also the northernmost range on the Pennine Way

Pennine Way

The Pennine Way is a National Trails in England. The trail runs 429 kilometres from Edale, in the northern Derbyshire Peak District, north through the Yorkshire Dales and the Northumberland National Park, to end at Kirk Yetholm, just inside the Scotland border....
. The final leg from Byrness

Byrness

Located in Northumberland, Byrness is the last village in England before the A68 road climbs the Cheviot Hills to cross Carter Bar into Scotland....
to Kirk Yetholm

Kirk Yetholm

Kirk Yetholm is a village in the Scotland Scottish Borders, eight miles southeast of Kelso, Scotland and less than a mile west of the Anglo-Scottish Border....
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

Devonian

The Devonian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic era spanning from . It is named after Devon, England, where rocks from this period were first studied....
granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of Intrusion , felsic, igneous rock rock . Granite has a medium to coarse texture, occasionally with some individual crystals larger than the groundmass forming a rock known as Porphyry ....
outcrop with andesite

Andesite

Andesite is an igneous rock, volcanic rock, of Igneous rock#Chemical classification, with aphanitic to porphyritic texture. The mineral assemblage is typically dominated by plagioclase plus pyroxene and/or hornblende....
lava flows either side. The surrounding lower ground lies on carboniferous

Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period that extends from the end of the Devonian period, about 359.2 ? 2.5 annum , to the beginning of the Permian period, about 299.0 ? 0.8 Ma ...
limestone

Limestone

File:Limestone Formation In Waitomo.jpgLimestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite . The deposition of limestone strata is often a by-product and indicator of biological activity in the geology record....
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The topography of the hills leads to the summits generally having low relative height

Topographic prominence

In topography, prominence, also known as autonomous height, relative height or shoulder drop or prime factor , is a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains, also known as peaks....
. Only three are Marilyns

Marilyn (hill)

A Marilyn is a type of mountain or hill in Great Britain, Ireland or surrounding islands with a topographic prominence of at least 150 metres , regardless of elevation or other merit....
; The Cheviot

The Cheviot

Shillhope Law

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 either side....
and Housedon Hill

Housedon Hill

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 Scotland border, which runs to the north and east....
, a small northern outlier. To the south-west the Cheviots merge into the Kielder Forest

Kielder Forest

Kielder Forest is a large Tree farm in Northumberland, England. There is a large Reservoir, Kielder Water at the heart of the forest....
group of hills.

The hills were the site of a battle between English and Scottish forces in The Ballad of Chevy Chase

The Ballad of Chevy Chase

There are two extant English ballads known as The Ballad of Chevy Chase, both of which narrate the same story. As ballads existed within oral tradition before being written down, other versions of this once popular song may also have existed....
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The Cheviot was first conquered by Motorcycle in the early 1930s by two local shepherds, brothers, George and Robert Mole, George on an AJS(believe a 350, actual model unknown) and Robert on a Francis Barnett(model unknown). They worked in the College valley and regularly took their bikes out on shepherding forays, frequently accommodating a collie on the petrol tank. They went onto the top of Cheviot several times and this was done from the College valley side via Hen Hole.

Otterburn Army Training Estate

The Otterburn

Otterburn, Northumberland

Otterburn is a small village in Northumberland, 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....
Army Training Estate (ATE) covers about 230 square kilometres of the Southern Cheviots. It is owned by the Ministry of Defence (MoD)

Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Defence is the Departments of the United Kingdom Government responsible for implementation of government defence policy and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces....
, 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

Lindisfarne

Lindisfarne is a tidal island off the north-east coast of England also known as Holy Island, the name of the civil parish. It has a population of 162 ...
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 Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey is an executive agency of the United Kingdom government. It is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, and one of the world's largest producers of maps.... Grid reference British national grid reference system The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude and longitude....	Coordinates Geographic coordinate system A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates, using mainly a Spherical coordinates#Spherical coordinates....
CheviotThe Cheviot The Cheviot The Cheviot is the highest Summit in the Cheviot Hills in the far north of England, only 2 km from the Scotland border. It is the last major peak on the Pennine Way, when travelling from south to north, before the descent into Kirk Yetholm ....	815
Cairn Hill	777
Hedgehope Hill Hedgehope Hill Hedgehope Hill is a mountain in the Cheviot Hills of North Northumberland in North East England.At a height of and a distance of about from the Scotland border, it is best climbed from Langleeford in the Harthorpe Valley which it looms over....	714
Comb Fell (peak to the east of the Fell)	652
Windy Gyle Windy Gyle Windy Gyle is a hill in the Cheviot Hills, right on Anglo-Scottish border between England and Scotland. It lies on the border ridge, and like the other hills in the area is rounded and grass-covered....	619
Cushat Law	615
Bloodybush Edge	610
SchilThe Schil	601
Catcleuch Shinpeak SSW of Catcleuch Shin	579
Dunmoor Hill	569
CurrThe Curr	564
Wholhope Hill	563
Beefstand Hill	562
Thirl Moor	558
Mozie Law	552
Carlin Tooth	551
Limestone Knowe	551
Hartshorn Pike	549
Black Hag	549
Scald Hill	549
Carter Fell	547
Yarnspath Law	543
Newton Tors: summit	537
Girdle Fellpeak at Girdle Fell near White Crags	536
King's Seat	531
Schill Moor	528
Saughieside Hill, Black Hagpeak between Saughieside Hill and Black Hag	528
Ravens Knowe	527
Horten EdgePeak near Horden Edge	527
Preston Hill	526
Scrathy Holes	521
Newton Tors: Wester Tor	518
Newton Tors: Hare Law	518
Broadhope Hill	517
Grey Mares Knowe	516
Ogre Hill	516
Lamb Hill	511
Outer Golden Pot	505
Shillhope Law Shillhope Law 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 either side....	501

External links

- Ministry of Defence
Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Defence is the Departments of the United Kingdom Government responsible for implementation of government defence policy and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces....