The Cheviot

The Cheviot is an extinct volcano and the highest peak in Northumberland  at 815 meters (2,674 feet) which is  from the Scottish border.

It would have formed 390 million years ago during the Caledonian orogeny, How this tranquil part of the North East is far from the madding crowd
. Chronicle Live. Retrieved November 28, 2021. when the mantle crust would melt after an eruption, which may have measured a height of 3,000 meters (10,000 feet) almost the same height as Mount Etna in Italy, and a diameter of 37 miles. during its last eruptions they could have been explosive and violent and the lava could have flowed up to Branxton and Flodden Ridge while the pyroclastics flows up to Coquetdale and Ingram.


Currently, the rest of this extinct volcano has been intensely eroded where several bodies of water would radiate.

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 Computer generated summit panorama The Cheviot 

Category:Volcanoes of Europe
Category:Geography of Northumberland
Category:Hills of England