Larriston Fells
The Larriston Fells are a bold ridge of hills amongst the Cheviots, the summits of the ridge in Roxburghshire, within a few hundred yards of the Northumberland boundary which runs largely parallel to them.
The main summits are at NY561914 (1,545 feet, with a transmitter mast) and NY569921 (1,680 feet – the main summit, where a trig pillar stands).
The ridge of the fells is the watershed between the waters running to Liddesdale (to the north) and the North Tyne to the south. The Larriston Burn gathers up the streams running off the hill (the Storff Burn, the Little Warrington Syke, the Bught Sike and Holm Sikes amongst others), which soon reach the Liddel Water, which takes their waters westwards to the Solway Firth while the streams on the south have a more complex path to the sea, swallowed by Kielder Water which eventually allows the water to reach the Tyne and the North Sea.
The Northumberland boundary runs in a somewhat erratic path across the southern slopes of the fells: the name 'Bloody Bush' attached to one point on the boundary tells of the days of the brutal border reivers in days of old, but today it marks the edge of the Kielder Forest, which encompasses broad landscape south of the Larriston Fells.
This is a remote spot. The nearest road crossings between north to south are at Kershope Bridge (Cumberland/Roxburghshire) and by Deadwater (Northumberland/Roxburghshire).
