Great Stony Hill

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Great Stony Hill tops out at 708 m in County Durham. It is one of the 316 Hewitts, and a Nuttall besides. It stands within the North Pennines National Landscape.

Alston Station is 15.1 km away to the north-west. For more of the same, Three Pikes and Harwood Common are close by.

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