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Name: | Darden Rigg |
Hill number: | 15950 |
Height: | 407m / 1335ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2315 Tosson Hill |
RHB Section: | 33: The Scottish Border to the River Tyne |
County/UA: | Northumberland |
Catchment: | Coquet, Catchment Boundaries |
Class: | Tump (400-499m) (Tu,4) |
Grid ref: | NY 98766 96513 |
Summit feature: | heathery mound 1m W of cairn of three rocks |
Drop: | 78m |
Col: | 329m NY991974 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 81 (1:25k) OL42E |
Observations: | flat summit area |
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GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 31 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Adrian | 24/03/2024 | |
Parked on large grass triangle outside the entrance to Hepple Whitfield Farm. Bridleway to forest. Turned right along forest road. Past quarry then up to summit across tall unmanaged heather. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 22/03/2024 |
A tour of the Simonside Hills from the free car park near Lordenshaw. The long walk took in Simonside, a revisit to Tosson Hill, Darden Rigg, Gunner's Box, then a long walk back along the St. 
 Oswald's Way to the car park. This was followed by a quick trip up to Garleigh Hill - both the trig and old fort. Altogether it was a 32km round with 730m ascent, taking me 9 hours. Not a cloud in the sky! The ground was tinder dry, but the going easy. | silveracorn_alan | 29/05/2023 |
Matt | 14/02/2023 | |
From Hepple Whitefield | Andrew Simmons | 01/03/2022 |
Wandered up from Hepple Whitefield. Had intended going onto Tosson Hill but came up here instead. | Walker Dan | 27/02/2022 |
From the car park and along the fabulous flagged footpath to Dove Crag and Simonside. Westwards to Raven then up the muddier path to Tosson Hill. Even muddier to Whitefield, but from there easy going forestry track to just south of Darden Rigg. Once back on the track we went past the Chartners Hostel until it reached the St Oswald's Way back to the car park. 4.20 hrs. | summitter | 05/11/2021 |
mae | 07/06/2021 | |
northernphilby | 26/02/2021 | |
Parking at Lordenshaw > Simonside > Tosson Hill > Darden Rigg along obvious and clear paths. Through the forest to Fallowlees and back up St Oswald's Way to Lordenshaw. | JohnR | 27/09/2020 |
Anton | 07/08/2020 | |
dexly | 19/03/2020 | |
From Great Tosson; Simonside and Tosson Hill first. On return followed fenceline roughly NE to Main Stone, then outward path picked up. Met jhimmy on Simonside. | jonglew | 29/10/2019 |
I was on top a good 15 minutes before Jon Glew. I noticed a 4x4 almost looking at me from the forest tracks. 5 minutes later 2 Forest rangers came up to ask what I was doing standing in the middle of nowhere...I sometimes wonder myself. They'd never heard of bagging before and was suprised anyone wanted to be there. After a good chat, Jon Glew appeared to prove I wasn't the only mad bagger around. Got back to car just before dark. | Jhimmy | 29/10/2019 |
Good parking at start of BW to N | carole engel | 29/07/2019 |
Simonside, Tosson Hill then this one following path and tracks. Hop over fence to top near stones. 
Back same way. | PeterD | 27/11/2018 |
As moorsman 16/7/2016. Quite a long walk for a single tump as the track zigzags all over the hill, but the alternative bashing through knee deep heather didn't appeal. | Crib Goch | 24/07/2017 |
From Hepple Whitefield. Lovely hill with good views. | Moorponder | 16/07/2017 |
Dave Geere | 17/03/2017 | |
andy elliott | 31/12/2016 | |
Used moorsman's approach until past shooting box then direct to summit for last 800m, some cuts in heather. There's a three rock cairn in deep heather at top, difficult to see until you're almost on top of it. | Aye Jimmy | 12/09/2016 |
m0untain_n0mad | 12/09/2016 | |
Take the easy route and approach from the north. Large parking area at the entrance to Hepple Whitefield farm. From here a wide, solid, stoned track leads right up to the trees east of the summit. At this point another good track starts running west to within 30m of the summit itself. 5.5 miles return. 2 hours. | moorsman | 16/07/2016 |
Lucky | 10/12/2015 | |
maknipe | 10/12/2015 | |
Walk from TP. Found very few tracks. Hard going. | Dusty | 04/10/2015 |
stevent0809 | 21/09/2008 | |
Sherlock | 24/03/2007 | |
dull heather moorland, OK view but trig has the best spot!. good tk from W then heather wade, some tracks thru heather | RHW | 15/05/2005 |
andrew.allum | 01/01/2000 | |
iain15000 | blank |