| Name: | Black Hill |
| Hill number: | 2753 |
| Height: | 645m / 2116ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2714 Burnhope Seat |
| RHB Section: | 35A: The Northern Pennines |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | North Pennines - Eastern Fells |
| County/UA: | Durham |
| Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Tees, Wear |
| Watershed: | Wearmouth, Tees Bay |
| Class: | Bridge, Deleted Nuttall (Bg,xN) |
| Grid ref: | NY 90634 33427 |
| Summit feature: | no feature |
| Drop: | 10m |
| Col: | 635m NY914330  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 91 92 (1:25k) OL31E |
| Observations: | ground 90m SW at NY 90566 33369 is as high; fence junction 50m NNW is obviously lower |
| 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 188 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From Swinhope Head to Black Hill, Westernhope Moor & Outberry Plain. | welshyboyo | 23/04/2024 |
| From col car park, then ATV track. Wandered about to hit the summit - plenty of choice including GPS point. | BaggerGutt | 19/09/2023 |
| On the way back from WM. | robertphillips | 09/09/2023 |
| On the way to Westernhope Moor | Rockdoctor | 20/08/2023 |
| Nuttall walk 10.4: From parking near Weardale Ski Club: down road to Swinhope bridge, Ascent to Cockran's Cabin using wall- ChapelFell Top- Fendrith Hill, Dora's seat, over the road to Black Hill and Westernhope Moor. Fine weather, good views but lots of pathless sections. | Lazylizzie | 26/08/2022 |
| 2nd time round dry underfoot unlike previous visit. | colinfielding | 27/07/2022 |
| On way to Westernhope | Longwojo | 18/06/2022 |
| With Kay, out and back to Westernhope Moor, going good after dry weather, reasonably clear paths all the way to the top. 5.5k, 1h 20min return. Blooming windy! | PDR365 | 22/09/2021 |
| From pt 607 (NY898331). The initially good ATV track only lasts until shortly after pt 645 where it forks; with each only having being subjected to half the tussock flattening power, neither fork is good, vanishing each time tough terrain is met. The N fork has the advantage of an old FP to use when the ATV disappears | Isbjorn | 26/08/2021 |
| A straightforward, airy walk from Swinhope Head to Black Hill and Westernhope Moor. | Nick Down1 | 31/05/2021 |
| From Swinhope Head, took in Black Hill then followed fence to summit and Continued on to Outberry Plain then returned back. Weather good, blue sky but windy, visibility good, ground slightly boggy. | matty1971b | 30/05/2021 |
| With Sue and NB from carpark, followed wall then fence to Black Hill, Westernhope Moor, and Outberry Plain not as bad as described some new quad track in some places. Had all seasons with a biting cold wind. | Frank | 04/05/2021 |
| Walked up from road along fence line. Featureless summit but a Currick just down to the left. | 2510chris | 15/03/2021 |
| Black Hill, Westernhope Moor, and Outberry Plain from high point on very minor road. A bit of a big trot, particularly on from Westernhope. Not very inspiring! With B and R. | jenx | 22/11/2020 |
| on way to trig pillar from cattle grid at road high point | cjo | 02/08/2020 |
| Boggy loop to Westernhope Moor Trig, Black Hill Trig (North of ridge at 559m, not recognised on this site) and Fendrith Hill. Spotted by gamekeeper who had seen me watching an owl and thought I was either a bird surveyor or someone destroying traps (which are apparently on surveillance now). He was satisfied after a chat that I was just visiting the trigs. | meltdiceburg | 16/07/2020 |
| On way to Westernhope Moor. | PGCE | 17/05/2020 |
| With Joe from Swinhope Head. | John Lee | 22/01/2020 |
| 10:30, 0 degrees, brisk north-westerlies, sunny. On to Westernhope Moor. | Wycombe Wanderer | 18/01/2020 |
| With Jo, from Swinhope Head en route to Black Hill trig. Visited all likely tops. Weather; sunny, good visibility. | amblerbob | 07/09/2019 |
| From cattle grid at Swinhope Head: Black Hill -> Westernhope Moor -> Outberry Plain. Then retraced steps back to car before attacking hills on other side of the road. Rough ground from Westernhope to Outberry, mainly peat hags, worse on other side of road though. | jonglew | 02/09/2019 |
| From cattle grid on minor road to west. Out and back to Black Hill,Westernhope Moor and Outberry Plain. The walk from Westernhope to Outberry was terrible. In and out and over peat hacs ditches and bogs. | mart0797 | 08/08/2019 |
| Picked it up on the way to Westernhope Moor | Gary Heath | 29/06/2019 |
| with the dog walked from Swinhope Head GR NY 89839 33173 a layby at the cattle grid heading over to Fendrith Hill passing the top of the sky lifts one a good day you can see this quite boggy and lots of peat hags about summit is a fe meters from the OS trig the headding over the hags to get to the summit of Chapelfell top 2 summits hear and unsure which was the true one to can carry on down the ridge and then head for the road i opted to go down the side of the fell as no visibility could soon see the farm and the road thinking that looks tough trust me the road is miles easier than the walk itself back to the parking spot to refill with water and off over to Westernhope moor this is the boggiest part of the walk stick to the fence and walls unlike me | Darren-443 | 18/05/2019 |
| Parked at Swinhope Head then bagged Black Hill, Westernhope Moor and a soggy Outberry Plain. | Dugswell2 | 12/05/2018 |
| Ran up from nearby road. Reasonably easy climb to an unexciting top and then onto Westernhope Moor | madaddo | 29/09/2017 |
| From Swinhope Head | Alan Caine | 25/06/2017 |
| 3Rd summit of the day plenty of sunshine bus snow and boggy ground underfoot made going hard work | colinfielding | 21/03/2017 |
| Out for a walk round 3 trig points from Swinhope Head. Easy walk up to here. | Walker Dan | 10/08/2016 |
| Nuttall Walk EN 10.4 Chapelfell Top to Westernhope Moor from Swinhope Bridge. Chapelfell Top, Fendrith Hill, Black Hill, Westernhope Moor. 12.6km with 400m ascent in 3h50m. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 23/07/2016 |
| En route to Westernhope Moor. Only had the six digit reference in the Nuttalls' book so walked around all possible tops. | clivevilla | 22/10/2015 |
| Parking area by cattle grid at Swinhope Head 898332 – Followed fence/wall & visited the two ‘hill-bagging’ summits, both of which are located south of the fence. Continued to Westernhope Moor & Outberry Plain. (PM) | gerrybowes | 25/09/2015 |
| En route to Middlehope. | stig_nest | 11/05/2015 |
| Daddry Shield - Chapelfell Top - Fendrith Hill - Westernhope Moor - Swinhopehead House - Daddry Shield. Sunny, with the ground well frozen. | davidpettit84 | 08/02/2015 |
| From NY898331 then on to Westernhope Moor and Outberry Plain [and back]. As others have suggested fence corner at 90617, 33478 is NOT the highest point. There is a large area of land 50-100m to the south which is a couple of metres higher. Take your pick - I selected NY90632,33428, but there are other contenders. | Crib Goch | 03/09/2014 |
| Nuttall Route. Chapelfell Top, Fendrith Hill, Black Hill (allow plenty of time if you want to be sure to stand on the top as there are many bumps that are contenders and rough ground between!) Westernhope Moor, Outberry Plain. | ijpowell | 20/06/2014 |
| From Swinhope Head, out and back over Black Hill, Westernhope Moor and Outberry Plain. | rhalstead | 19/04/2014 |
| Black Hill, Westernhope Moor | ronaldo333 | 02/02/2014 |
| Short walk from Swinhope Head. Unsatisfactory summit at the fence junction, looks higher about 100m away to S. Onwards to Westernhope. | Aye Jimmy | 05/07/2013 |
| With G. From Swinehope Head > Black Hill > Westernhope Moor > Fendrith Hill retracing route > Chapelfell Top > Swinehope Head retracing route. | RT1970 | 05/07/2013 |
| From Swinhope Head where the car can be parked easily. Also done on 25/09/2015 when heading over to Outberry Plain with GB. | bolton | 23/05/2012 |
| En route to Westernhope Moor with Dad. | AGWilliamson | 29/08/2011 |
| Third summit of the day at 9.40am and again at 11.55 after a jolly stomp over to Outberry Plain. | signyred | 24/08/2011 |
| Visited on way up to nearby Nutalll | Father Ted | 02/07/2011 |
| From Swinhope Head on route to Westernhope Moor. | Fisky Boy | 14/05/2011 |
| With Fisky Boy | Brenda Cloke | 14/05/2011 |
| on way to Westernhope Hill top | nevans84 | 06/02/2011 |
| KeithByTheC | 10/03/2010 | |
| Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 10/05/2008 |
| With Jo, circular walk from Swinhopehead House: across fell to Cockran’s Cabin, Chapelfell Top, then along ridge to Fendrith Hill, Dora’s Seat , Swinhope Head continuing onto Black Hill, Westernhope Moor and Outberry Plain, then returning back along ridge to SH, then down road to start. Weather, sunny, warm breeze, very good visibility. | amblerbob | 11/09/2007 |