Roseberry Topping
- Food
- Great Ayton, before or after
Crowd level: Easy. Busy only at the obvious hour
Best season A clear day any month. Mud in winter. Bluebells in Newton Wood in May, if you like the lower path.
A small, odd peak above Great Ayton. The shape is a geological fault plus a mining collapse in 1912. The National Trust holds it. The walk is short and steep.
Worth knowing
The last bit
The National Trust calls the climb steep and the paths muddy when wet. The last section is rocky. It is a short day and a bad place to be casual about shoes.
The short version
Roseberry Topping is 1,049 feet, about 320 meters. The National Trust says James Cook, as a boy on a nearby farm, climbed it. Great Ayton is the town. The car park is at Newton-under-Roseberry. It is a local hill, not a national-park honeypot on the scale of the lakes.
Food nearby
Great Ayton, before or after
The summit has no café. Eat in Great Ayton.