Reaveley Hill

Overlooking the Breamish Valley near Ingram, this rounded Northumberland Tump offers a quiet, grassy ascent. While modest in height, the summit provides a clear perspective across the valley toward the bulky mass of Dunmoor Hill and the rocky Cunyan Crags. It serves as an accessible, honest introduction to the Cheviot fringes.

• •The name derives from the Old English 'gerefa', meaning a reeve or bailiff, and 'leah', a clearing. This suggests the hill was once part of a woodland clearing managed by a local official before it was opened up for the sheep grazing that defines it today.
• •The hill’s southern slopes are home to a scheduled monument containing the remains of an Iron Age hillfort. The site still shows the faint, circular footprints of stone-walled huts and defensive ramparts, part of a prehistoric community that once dominated the valley floor.
• •The summit offers an excellent vantage point for surveying the local archaeology; from the top, you can look directly across to the impressive hillfort on Brough Law and the ancient field systems of the Breamish Valley.
• •At 990 feet, the hill misses out on reaching the 1,000-foot milestone by a mere ten feet, a distinction that bothers map-obsessed hikers far more than the livestock that inhabit it.