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Black Hill

Hill, Mountain in Northumberland

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Black Hill

Glendhu Hill Trig An ascend from east with the magnificent seven to bag Martin Richardson's last HuMP in England and Wales. Chris Watson provided the wet weather which made the tough going even tougher. Name: Glendhu Hill Hill number: 3556 Height: 514m / 1686ft Area: 33: The Scottish Border to the River Tyne Class: Hu,5 Grid ref: NY 56838 86370 Summit feature: no feature Drop: 115m Col: 399m NY569848
Glendhu Hill Trig Credit: Rude Health

Black Hill is a prominent hill located in Northumberland, England. Situated within the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, it is part of the Pennine range and stands at an elevation of 609 meters (1,998 feet). Although not classified as a mountain, it offers breathtaking views and is a popular destination for hikers and nature enthusiasts.

The hill is characterized by its distinctive black peat and heather-covered slopes, which give it its name. It is predominantly composed of Carboniferous limestone, but also includes patches of sandstone and shale. The rugged terrain and steep gradients make it a challenging yet rewarding climb for experienced walkers.

At the summit, visitors are rewarded with stunning panoramic views of the surrounding landscape. On clear days, it is possible to see as far as the Cheviot Hills to the north and the Lake District to the south. The area is also home to a diverse range of wildlife, including rare bird species such as golden plovers and curlews.

Black Hill is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest due to its geological and ecological importance. It is also part of the North Pennines Special Protection Area, which aims to preserve the region's unique habitats and species.

Access to Black Hill is primarily via footpaths and trails, with several starting points in the nearby villages of Blanchland and Edmundbyers. Visitors are advised to come prepared with appropriate hiking gear and to be mindful of the weather conditions, as the hill can be exposed and prone to sudden changes in climate.

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Glendhu Hill Trig An ascend from east with the magnificent seven to bag Martin Richardson's last HuMP in England and Wales. Chris Watson provided the wet weather which made the tough going even tougher. Name: Glendhu Hill Hill number: 3556 Height: 514m / 1686ft Area: 33: The Scottish Border to the River Tyne Class: Hu,5 Grid ref: NY 56838 86370 Summit feature: no feature Drop: 115m Col: 399m NY569848
Glendhu Hill Trig
An ascend from east with the magnificent seven to bag Martin Richardson's last HuMP in England and Wales. Chris Watson provided the wet weather which made the tough going even tougher. Name: Glendhu Hill Hill number: 3556 Height: 514m / 1686ft Area: 33: The Scottish Border to the River Tyne Class: Hu,5 Grid ref: NY 56838 86370 Summit feature: no feature Drop: 115m Col: 399m NY569848
Replacement Cross to crew of Crashed Halifax Bomber Memorial honours airmen lost in Kielder Forest in 1944. The new memorial was made by Richard Maughan and erected on 5th November 2012. This new cross is much more substantial than the previous one. A fitting memorial. <span class="nowrap"><a title="http://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/Memorial-honours-airmen-lost-in-Kielder-Forest-in-1944-5321fe9e-915f-4819-8a15-83c9a064bce5-ds" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" href="http://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/Memorial-honours-airmen-lost-in-Kielder-Forest-in-1944-5321fe9e-915f-4819-8a15-83c9a064bce5-ds">Link</a><img style="margin-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="https://s1.geograph.org.uk/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/></span>
Replacement Cross to crew of Crashed Halifax Bomber
Memorial honours airmen lost in Kielder Forest in 1944. The new memorial was made by Richard Maughan and erected on 5th November 2012. This new cross is much more substantial than the previous one. A fitting memorial. LinkExternal link
The Art of Plastic Dragonfly Hanging. Something we do in certain places leaving a plastic dragonfly hanging from a tree and hopefully visiting the same site at a later date. Actually we can't remember where we left some of the others. The top dragonfly was installed two years ago.
The Art of Plastic Dragonfly Hanging.
Something we do in certain places leaving a plastic dragonfly hanging from a tree and hopefully visiting the same site at a later date. Actually we can't remember where we left some of the others. The top dragonfly was installed two years ago.
Handley Page Halifax DK116 Glendhu Hill Kielder WWII Plane Crash site This wreckage is spread about in the wood and is quite hard to find.
Handley Page Halifax DK116 Glendhu Hill Kielder WWII Plane Crash site
This wreckage is spread about in the wood and is quite hard to find.
NY5786 Halifax DK116 The aircraft crashed into Glendhu Hill, Kielder, Northumberland killing the four remaining crewmen.
NY5786 Halifax DK116
The aircraft crashed into Glendhu Hill, Kielder, Northumberland killing the four remaining crewmen.
Replanting after harvesting
Replanting after harvesting
The last sunset of the decade... ..is just around the corner!
The last sunset of the decade...
..is just around the corner!
Handley Page Halifax DK116 crash site, Glendhu Hill The crash site on Glendhu Hill, which wasn't forested at the time of the crash on 15 October 1944. The crew of Halifax DK116 (1667 HCU) had taken off from RAF Sandtoft near Scunthorpe on a cross country navigation exercise when the port inner engine caught fire. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful and the crew prepared to bail out. However, only three of the crew managed to leave before the aircraft dived into Glendhu Hill in the Kielder Forest, Northumberland, barely a mile from the Scottish border. Various reports suggest the pilot put the Halifax into a dive in an attempt to put the fire out but from which it failed to recover and/or that the remaining crew tried to save the life of the rear gunner who was allegedly trapped in his turret. However, after the three men bailed out no-one knows for sure what happened. CREW Killed P/O Herbert George Haddrell (Pilot, aged 30) Sgt John Neilson (Flight Engineer, aged 24) W/O Maurice Fredrick James (Air Gunner, aged 22) W/O Geoffrey Symonds (Air Gunner) Survived Sgt John Mahony (Navigator, aged 22) [Killed in action six months later] Sgt Reid (Wireless Operator) Sgt Hammond (Air Gunner) One of the four Bristol Hercules engines was dug out from under 20' of peat in the 1970s.
Handley Page Halifax DK116 crash site, Glendhu Hill
The crash site on Glendhu Hill, which wasn't forested at the time of the crash on 15 October 1944. The crew of Halifax DK116 (1667 HCU) had taken off from RAF Sandtoft near Scunthorpe on a cross country navigation exercise when the port inner engine caught fire. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful and the crew prepared to bail out. However, only three of the crew managed to leave before the aircraft dived into Glendhu Hill in the Kielder Forest, Northumberland, barely a mile from the Scottish border. Various reports suggest the pilot put the Halifax into a dive in an attempt to put the fire out but from which it failed to recover and/or that the remaining crew tried to save the life of the rear gunner who was allegedly trapped in his turret. However, after the three men bailed out no-one knows for sure what happened. CREW Killed P/O Herbert George Haddrell (Pilot, aged 30) Sgt John Neilson (Flight Engineer, aged 24) W/O Maurice Fredrick James (Air Gunner, aged 22) W/O Geoffrey Symonds (Air Gunner) Survived Sgt John Mahony (Navigator, aged 22) [Killed in action six months later] Sgt Reid (Wireless Operator) Sgt Hammond (Air Gunner) One of the four Bristol Hercules engines was dug out from under 20' of peat in the 1970s.
An oil cooler from Handley Page Halifax DK116 An oil cooler from one of the four Bristol Hercules engines still identifiable at the crash site. Glendhu Hill which wasn't forested at the time of the crash on 15 October 1944. The crew of Halifax DK116 (1667 HCU) had taken off from RAF Sandtoft near Scunthorpe on a cross country navigation exercise when the port inner engine caught fire. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful and the crew prepared to bail out. However, only three of the crew managed to leave before the aircraft dived into Glendhu Hill in the Kielder Forest, Northumberland, barely a mile from the Scottish border. Various reports suggest the pilot put the Halifax into a dive in an attempt to put the fire out but from which it failed to recover and/or that the remaining crew tried to save the life of the rear gunner who was allegedly trapped in his turret. However, after the three men bailed out no-one knows for sure what happened. CREW Killed P/O Herbert George Haddrell (Pilot, aged 30) Sgt John Neilson (Flight Engineer, aged 24) W/O Maurice Fredrick James (Air Gunner, aged 22) W/O Geoffrey Symonds (Air Gunner) Survived Sgt John Mahony (Navigator, aged 22) [Killed in action six months later] Sgt Reid (Wireless Operator) Sgt Hammond (Air Gunner) One of the four Bristol Hercules engines was dug out from under 20' of peat in the 1970s.
An oil cooler from Handley Page Halifax DK116
An oil cooler from one of the four Bristol Hercules engines still identifiable at the crash site. Glendhu Hill which wasn't forested at the time of the crash on 15 October 1944. The crew of Halifax DK116 (1667 HCU) had taken off from RAF Sandtoft near Scunthorpe on a cross country navigation exercise when the port inner engine caught fire. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful and the crew prepared to bail out. However, only three of the crew managed to leave before the aircraft dived into Glendhu Hill in the Kielder Forest, Northumberland, barely a mile from the Scottish border. Various reports suggest the pilot put the Halifax into a dive in an attempt to put the fire out but from which it failed to recover and/or that the remaining crew tried to save the life of the rear gunner who was allegedly trapped in his turret. However, after the three men bailed out no-one knows for sure what happened. CREW Killed P/O Herbert George Haddrell (Pilot, aged 30) Sgt John Neilson (Flight Engineer, aged 24) W/O Maurice Fredrick James (Air Gunner, aged 22) W/O Geoffrey Symonds (Air Gunner) Survived Sgt John Mahony (Navigator, aged 22) [Killed in action six months later] Sgt Reid (Wireless Operator) Sgt Hammond (Air Gunner) One of the four Bristol Hercules engines was dug out from under 20' of peat in the 1970s.
An undercarriage wheel from Handley Page Halifax DK116 An undercarriage wheel still is identifiable at the crash site. Glendhu Hill which wasn't forested at the time of the crash on 15 October 1944. The crew of Halifax DK116 (1667 HCU) had taken off from RAF Sandtoft near Scunthorpe on a cross country navigation exercise when the port inner engine caught fire. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful and the crew prepared to bail out. However, only three of the crew managed to leave before the aircraft dived into Glendhu Hill in the Kielder Forest, Northumberland, barely a mile from the Scottish border. Various reports suggest the pilot put the Halifax into a dive in an attempt to put the fire out but from which it failed to recover and/or that the remaining crew tried to save the life of the rear gunner who was allegedly trapped in his turret. However, after the three men bailed out no-one knows for sure what happened. CREW Killed P/O Herbert George Haddrell (Pilot, aged 30) Sgt John Neilson (Flight Engineer, aged 24) W/O Maurice Fredrick James (Air Gunner, aged 22) W/O Geoffrey Symonds (Air Gunner) Survived Sgt John Mahony (Navigator, aged 22) [Killed in action six months later] Sgt Reid (Wireless Operator) Sgt Hammond (Air Gunner) One of the four Bristol Hercules engines was dug out from under 20' of peat in the 1970s.
An undercarriage wheel from Handley Page Halifax DK116
An undercarriage wheel still is identifiable at the crash site. Glendhu Hill which wasn't forested at the time of the crash on 15 October 1944. The crew of Halifax DK116 (1667 HCU) had taken off from RAF Sandtoft near Scunthorpe on a cross country navigation exercise when the port inner engine caught fire. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful and the crew prepared to bail out. However, only three of the crew managed to leave before the aircraft dived into Glendhu Hill in the Kielder Forest, Northumberland, barely a mile from the Scottish border. Various reports suggest the pilot put the Halifax into a dive in an attempt to put the fire out but from which it failed to recover and/or that the remaining crew tried to save the life of the rear gunner who was allegedly trapped in his turret. However, after the three men bailed out no-one knows for sure what happened. CREW Killed P/O Herbert George Haddrell (Pilot, aged 30) Sgt John Neilson (Flight Engineer, aged 24) W/O Maurice Fredrick James (Air Gunner, aged 22) W/O Geoffrey Symonds (Air Gunner) Survived Sgt John Mahony (Navigator, aged 22) [Killed in action six months later] Sgt Reid (Wireless Operator) Sgt Hammond (Air Gunner) One of the four Bristol Hercules engines was dug out from under 20' of peat in the 1970s.
Looking over Handley Page Halifax DK116 crash site to the summit of Glendhu Hill The crash site on Glendhu Hill, which wasn't forested at the time of the crash on 15 October 1944. The crew of Halifax DK116 (1667 HCU) had taken off from RAF Sandtoft near Scunthorpe on a cross country navigation exercise when the port inner engine caught fire. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful and the crew prepared to bail out. However, only three of the crew managed to leave before the aircraft dived into Glendhu Hill in the Kielder Forest, Northumberland, barely a mile from the Scottish border. Various reports suggest the pilot put the Halifax into a dive in an attempt to put the fire out but from which it failed to recover and/or that the remaining crew tried to save the life of the rear gunner who was allegedly trapped in his turret. However, after the three men bailed out no-one knows for sure what happened. CREW Killed P/O Herbert George Haddrell (Pilot, aged 30) Sgt John Neilson (Flight Engineer, aged 24) W/O Maurice Fredrick James (Air Gunner, aged 22) W/O Geoffrey Symonds (Air Gunner) Survived Sgt John Mahony (Navigator, aged 22) [Killed in action six months later] Sgt Reid (Wireless Operator) Sgt Hammond (Air Gunner) One of the four Bristol Hercules engines was dug out from under 20' of peat in the 1970s.
Looking over Handley Page Halifax DK116 crash site to the summit of Glendhu Hill
The crash site on Glendhu Hill, which wasn't forested at the time of the crash on 15 October 1944. The crew of Halifax DK116 (1667 HCU) had taken off from RAF Sandtoft near Scunthorpe on a cross country navigation exercise when the port inner engine caught fire. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful and the crew prepared to bail out. However, only three of the crew managed to leave before the aircraft dived into Glendhu Hill in the Kielder Forest, Northumberland, barely a mile from the Scottish border. Various reports suggest the pilot put the Halifax into a dive in an attempt to put the fire out but from which it failed to recover and/or that the remaining crew tried to save the life of the rear gunner who was allegedly trapped in his turret. However, after the three men bailed out no-one knows for sure what happened. CREW Killed P/O Herbert George Haddrell (Pilot, aged 30) Sgt John Neilson (Flight Engineer, aged 24) W/O Maurice Fredrick James (Air Gunner, aged 22) W/O Geoffrey Symonds (Air Gunner) Survived Sgt John Mahony (Navigator, aged 22) [Killed in action six months later] Sgt Reid (Wireless Operator) Sgt Hammond (Air Gunner) One of the four Bristol Hercules engines was dug out from under 20' of peat in the 1970s.
Handley Page Halifax DK116 crash debris Debris just downslope from the main crash site on Glendhu Hill (which wasn't afforested at the time). 15 October 1944. The crew of Halifax DK116 (1667 HCU) had taken off from RAF Sandtoft near Scunthorpe on a cross country navigation exercise when the port inner engine caught fire. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful and the crew prepared to bail out. However only three of them managed to leave before the aircraft dived into Glendhu Hill in the Kielder Forest, Northumberland, barely a mile from the Scottish border. Various reports suggest the pilot put the Halifax into a dive in an attempt to put the fire out but from which it failed to recover and/or that the remaining crew tried to save the life of the rear gunner who was allegedly trapped in his turret. But really after the 3 men bailed out no-one knows for sure what happened. CREW Killed P/O Herbert George Haddrell (Pilot, aged 30) Sgt John Neilson (Flight Engineer, aged 24) W/O Maurice Fredrick James (Air Gunner, aged 22) W/O Geoffrey Symonds (Air Gunner) Survived Sgt John Mahony (Navigator, aged 22) [Killed in action six months later] Sgt Reid (Wireless Operator) Sgt Hammond (Air Gunner) One of the engines was dug out under 20' of peat in the 1970s.
Handley Page Halifax DK116 crash debris
Debris just downslope from the main crash site on Glendhu Hill (which wasn't afforested at the time). 15 October 1944. The crew of Halifax DK116 (1667 HCU) had taken off from RAF Sandtoft near Scunthorpe on a cross country navigation exercise when the port inner engine caught fire. Attempts to extinguish the fire were unsuccessful and the crew prepared to bail out. However only three of them managed to leave before the aircraft dived into Glendhu Hill in the Kielder Forest, Northumberland, barely a mile from the Scottish border. Various reports suggest the pilot put the Halifax into a dive in an attempt to put the fire out but from which it failed to recover and/or that the remaining crew tried to save the life of the rear gunner who was allegedly trapped in his turret. But really after the 3 men bailed out no-one knows for sure what happened. CREW Killed P/O Herbert George Haddrell (Pilot, aged 30) Sgt John Neilson (Flight Engineer, aged 24) W/O Maurice Fredrick James (Air Gunner, aged 22) W/O Geoffrey Symonds (Air Gunner) Survived Sgt John Mahony (Navigator, aged 22) [Killed in action six months later] Sgt Reid (Wireless Operator) Sgt Hammond (Air Gunner) One of the engines was dug out under 20' of peat in the 1970s.
Forwarder track near Marven's Cleuch The unsightly remnants of forestry operations make for difficult walking conditions, therefore the opportunity to follow a forwarder track makes progress a little quicker. This photograph was taken at 1546 hrs on the final day of 2019.
Forwarder track near Marven's Cleuch
The unsightly remnants of forestry operations make for difficult walking conditions, therefore the opportunity to follow a forwarder track makes progress a little quicker. This photograph was taken at 1546 hrs on the final day of 2019.
Glendhu Hill Enjoying the view from the slopes of Glendhu Hill.
Glendhu Hill
Enjoying the view from the slopes of Glendhu Hill.
Forestry clear fell Timber harvesting in Kershope Forest.
Forestry clear fell
Timber harvesting in Kershope Forest.
Loading logs for transportation Timber harvesting operations in Kershope Forest.
Loading logs for transportation
Timber harvesting operations in Kershope Forest.
Road in Kershope Forest
Road in Kershope Forest
Forestry road culvert This large pipe diverts water under the forestry road at Lancy's Cleugh.
Forestry road culvert
This large pipe diverts water under the forestry road at Lancy's Cleugh.
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Black Hill is located at Grid Ref: NY5784 (Lat: 55.155468, Lng: -2.673816)

Unitary Authority: Northumberland

Police Authority: Northumbria

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