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The highest point in the Metropolitan District of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Westerhope is the name given by the Database of British and Irish Hills to the summit, and by OS to the nearby trig pillar NZ1866 : Trig pillar in a back garden. Westerhope village lies about half a mile to the north of the summit and was the name adopted by the Northern Allotment Society for the village in 1893, as this was to be ‘the hope of the west’.

The Scout Association’s ‘House on the Hill’ NZ1866 : 'House on the Hill', Hillhead Road on Hillhead Road and the reservoir was originally shown on the six inch map as a farmhouse named Denton Hill Head and probably predates the village of Westerhope, although Denton Hill Head is no longer used locally.