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| Name: | High Knowes |
| Hill number: | 15956 |
| Height: | 395m / 1296ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2302 The Cheviot |
| RHB Section: | 33: The Scottish Border to the River Tyne |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | The Cheviots |
| County/UA: | Northumberland |
| Catchment: | Coquet, Catchment Boundaries, Tweed |
| Watershed: | Tweedmouth |
| Class: | Tump (300-399m) (Tu,3) |
| Grid ref: | NT 96882 12795 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: pasture c20m S of fence |
| Drop: | 40m |
| Col: | 355m NT963126  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 81 (1:25k) OL16E |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 36 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From the cattle grid. Quick up and down, coming down via the Shepherd's Cairn. | PGCE | 09/10/2023 |
| From the CG, visited 2 areas. | robertphillips | 18/02/2023 |
| Came back this way for the Cheviot 99 on the way back from Hogdon Law and Cushat Law. Back past the shepherd's memorial. | Walker Dan | 11/07/2022 |
| Straight up grassy slopes from cattle grid. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 17/12/2021 |
| Walk up from road via sheperds cairn. Great sunny day with distant views. | cjo | 12/06/2021 |
| Room for a couple of cars at the cattle grid 1km S of Ewartly Shank. Followed the fence up > High Knowes. | JohnR | 24/04/2021 |
| Grand tour of the Northumberland hills from Alnham. Parked by the phone box. Blackchester > Hazeltonrig > Highknowes > Hart Law for the trig along the ridge and down to Prendwick > minor road back to the car. | Andrew Simmons | 22/12/2020 |
| Last hill of the day, kept on Salter's Road after Ewartly Shank, up to col & grass track to near summit. Spotted a large cairn on the way back down to the car at the col, but didn't have the energy to go over; stopped by chance at Alnham church later & a noticeboard explained it. | agentmancuso | 01/08/2020 |
| From cattle grid (NT 9640 1266) solo 14 mile circular: Hogdon Law -> Wether Cairn -> Cushat Law -> Bloodybush Edge -> Lint Lands -> Shill Moor -> High Knowes. | jonglew | 08/11/2019 |
| Trod to good ATV up N side of fence from NT 9639 1267 | carole engel | 20/07/2019 |
| Parked at cattle grid GR 964 127. Good track goes around Hogdon Law and up to summit. Then heather bashing across to fence near Black Butt then followed fence upto WeatherCairn. 4x4 tracks on west side. Return to Black Butt and along fences to Cushat Law and Bloodybush Edge, mainly on 4x4 tracks but rutted and boggy. Went down across Salters road up to Lint Lands. Returned to Salters road for a long trek back passing over High Knowes | mart0797 | 04/07/2019 |
| With Jo, from cattle grid south of Ewartly Shank: along track to Shill Moor, returning on Salter’s Road past Ewartly Shank and onto Hart Law Trig before returning to car over High Knowes. Weather; sunny, cold wind, good visibility. | amblerbob | 29/04/2019 |
| From the cattle grid, after a fun drive along a road in dire need of resurfacing. Useful green track west of the fence | Colin Crawford | 24/03/2019 |
| From minor road to W | Crib Goch | 11/01/2019 |
| Easy parking alongside the cattle grid to the south west (alt 360m). Although the summit is to the south of the fence, the easiest walking is along a vehicular track to the north, striding the fence when alongside it. Well under 15 minutes return. | moorsman | 02/08/2017 |
| From minor road near cattle grid at NT 96403 12663. A 14 mile circular route including Hogdon Law > Wether Cairn [Wholhope Hill] > Cushat Law > Bloodybush Edge > Lint Lands > Shill Moor > High Knownes. | David Gradwell | 07/05/2017 |
| End of circuit: Hogdon - Wether - Cushat - Shill Moor - High Knowes - cattle grid starting point. Gently rounded top, odd mound just SSW. Back past memorial to the two shepherds 'who perished here in the snow 17th November 1962.' Aye, it was a cold winter '62-63... | Aye Jimmy | 24/05/2016 |
| Bagged after Shill Moor from my parking spot with a visit to the two shepherds' memorial cairn. | Dugswell2 | 01/09/2014 |
| From WSW, memorial to 2 shepherds en route. | RHW | 17/05/2014 |
| On round with Wether Cairn and Shill Moor | Moorponder | 17/10/2012 |
| Summit crossed on the second day of an orienteering event. | JohnW | 07/09/2003 |
| Martin R | 30/03/2024 | |
| northernphilby | 27/05/2022 | |
| jimbloomer | 20/09/2020 | |
| mae | 20/09/2020 | |
| Lucky | 20/03/2019 | |
| maknipe | 20/03/2019 | |
| dexly | 23/10/2018 | |
| andy elliott | 20/01/2018 | |
| Edwin Gradwell | 07/05/2017 | |
| Dave Geere | 19/03/2017 | |
| chalky1953 | 15/01/2017 | |
| Steve Q | 30/06/2016 | |
| Sherlock | 23/06/2002 | |
| andrew.allum | 01/01/2000 | |
| Nobblynuts | blank |