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| Name: | Simonside |
| Hill number: | 15944 |
| Height: | 430m / 1411ft |
| 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: | NZ 02405 98710 |
| Summit feature: | large cairn |
| Drop: | 62m |
| Col: | 368m NZ020987  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 81 (1:25k) OL42E |
| Survey: | obvious summit |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 188 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Shepherds walk from Lordenshaw Car Park with EY walking group. 6.3mile circuit. | JulieB | 30/03/2024 |
| Traversed from carpark to the east on the way to Tosson Hill. A very busy Hill this one but a very nice walk. | KevPalmer | 23/03/2024 |
| From forest parking to the east. Then onto Tosson Hill. | Alan Caine | 22/03/2024 |
| Simonside ridge walk from Dove crag + the beacon, lovely walk and fantastic views, dry and sunny | matty1971b | 31/12/2023 |
| 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 |
| 08:00, 10 degrees, light cloud, south-westerlies. From car park. Deservedly popular. On to Tosson Hill. | Wycombe Wanderer | 14/05/2023 |
| From Great Tosson,direct route to the crag and soloed up an easy climb. Grand day, good views. Last time i was here was rock climbing 12 years ago. Continued to Tosson Hill. | Nick Canute | 16/09/2022 |
| Simonside & Tosson Hill from Simonside CP. | Longwojo | 06/09/2022 |
| Rothbury, Garleigh Moor, Simonside, Tossing Hill, back same way. Saw an Adder. | Flatfield | 13/07/2022 |
| With Figgy. Simonside and Tosson Hill from Lordenshaw car park. | mazz | 29/05/2022 |
| Lots of graffiti on large slabs. Path, mainly slabbed from free and popular valley carpark. Nice walk along edge with good views. Clear but cold and windy. | Denise | 05/03/2022 |
| From the E, a flag stone path for much of the way along the ridge. Good views in sunshine and mainly clear skies. | RichardM | 05/03/2022 |
| From Lordenshaws carpark. | Andrew Simmons | 18/12/2021 |
| 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 |
| 1 of 2: From Lordenshaw CP. With Karen. | ChrisR | 13/10/2021 |
| Simonside ridge walk from Dove crag + the beacon | dannyscun | 07/09/2021 |
| From Lordenshaw Car Park, up onto ridge, then on to Tosson Hill | JulieB | 31/07/2021 |
| Up and back from Lordenshaw car park | prwild | 30/07/2021 |
| With Simon, Martin and Hutch. | mrdolf | 19/06/2021 |
| Followed red waymarkers from Forestry Commission Simonside Car Park | johnbarnard25 | 12/06/2021 |
| From Lordenshaws car park over The Beacon and along the ridge to Simonside.Initally intended to go on to Tosson Hill but poor forecast proved accurate. With Bridget and Oscar. | catman | 07/06/2021 |
| From Lordenshaws over Simonside to Tosson Hill, returning by the forest track N of Simonside. An enjoyable and scenic walk. | Nick Down1 | 29/05/2021 |
| 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 |
| On the way back to Great Tosson after Tosson Hill | squeegs | 27/08/2020 |
| Free car park north of Great Tosson at the old lime kiln. Pleasant footpaths to summit. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 19/08/2020 |
| Simonside and Tosson Hill from the CP at NZ052987. | summitsup | 11/08/2020 |
| Simonside and Tosson hill, been here several times beforebut not logged. | cjo | 10/08/2020 |
| Run up from the parking area to the east over Simonside to Tosson Hill and back. 7.3 miles in 1 hour 18 minutes. Weather mostly cloudy with a bit of sun. Quite popular. | isabelle | 21/07/2020 |
| From Tosson Hill | KeithByTheC | 15/07/2020 |
| Circuit from Lordenshaws car park | Ajm0310 | 21/05/2020 |
| Rothbury-Garleigh Hill-Simonside-Tosson Hill-Rothbury. Hit by a blizzard sent by storm Jorge while on the summit, didn't linger! | Gary Heath | 29/02/2020 |
| From Great Tosson, good track most of the way, nice little scramble up to here. On to Tosson Hill. | jonglew | 29/10/2019 |
| Been many times on Simonside. Met Jon Glew, nice to put a face to a name. John was also doing the same hills ie, Tosson Hill and Deardon Rigg. | Jhimmy | 29/10/2019 |
| Circular route from Lordenshaws Carpark, following St Oswald’s way via Spylaw, Coquet Cairn and Selby’s Cove then up to the summit of Simonside. With 5 and 6 year old. VERY boggy but good fun. | thecoopers | 04/08/2019 |
| with sue | HardenC | 20/06/2019 |
| From car park to East up paved path and past successive cairns. On to Tosson Hill and Darden Rigg. Back same way. | PeterD | 27/11/2018 |
| With Gerald | Rob Pen y Garn | 01/10/2018 |
| As per entry for Tosson Hill | raffemeister | 15/09/2018 |
| While climbing at the crag. | victimofmathema | 25/08/2018 |
| From car park below beacon summit. On way to Tosson Hill | nickywood1 | 03/08/2018 |
| Simonside Hills ridge and on to Tosson Hill | nix_snilloc | 08/07/2018 |
| Return from Tosson Hill | NorthernWayfarer | 08/01/2018 |
| 9 mile out-and-back walk from car park east of Garleigh Moor, over pathless ground from road onto Garleigh Hill, then down to footpath west, along to Simonside Hills car park and followed well made paths all the way along the ridge to Simonside summit, descended steeply and followed boggy footpath along to Tosson Hill then back to car park missing the Simonside ridge taking the forest lane north instead. Perfect autumn/winter weather cold, clear and bright. | DanTrig | 06/11/2017 |
| En route to Tosson Hill, but this is a much nicer hill. | IanHHill | 31/10/2017 |
| From Lordenshaw. | Nick Caunt | 23/09/2017 |
| With J en route to Tosson Hill | NotReallyABagger | 25/06/2017 |
| With K en route to Tosson Hill | Ashley | 22/12/2016 |
| Third in a series of mounts each successively higher | shamian | 30/08/2016 |
| First climbed in the 1950's before the forest was planted. Maybe I'm getting old. | Northender | 19/08/2016 |
| With Jo, from Lordenshaw cp: fp over The Beacon onto Simonside and Tosson Hill, returning through Joe's Wood and along road. Weather; generally cloudy, warm, good visibility. | amblerbob | 16/05/2016 |