Nine Standards Rigg

Nine Standards Rigg

Height: 662m (2,172ft)
Prominence: 157m (515ft)
Region: Yorkshire Dales
Classifications: Nuttall, Hewitt, Marilyn
Summit feature: Trig pillar
Times climbed: 1
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Nine Standards Rigg

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Nine Standards Rigg is the summit of Hartley Fell. It lies near the boundary between Cumbria and North Yorkshire, a few miles south-east of Kirkby Stephen and approximately 700m outside the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

The name is derived from a group of cairns, the Nine Standards, located near the summit. The Nine Standards themselves, some of which were originally more than four metres high, are on the line of the Coast to Coast Walk between Kirkby Stephen and Keld, and are just to the north of the fell's summit. Situated at a height of 650m, their original purpose is uncertain but one possibility is that they marked the boundary between Westmorland and Swaledale.

The Nine Standards

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