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Hill Top South Yorkshire Map

(Hamlet near Dungworth)

Traditional county: South Yorkshire · District / Borough: Sheffield · Region: Yorkshire and the Humber

Explore Hill Top, South Yorkshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Hill Top map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail.

This page also offers OS MAPS — Ordnance Survey Outdoor mapping and the OS Explorer 1:25 000 sheets — plus a labelled National Grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.

Interactive Map of Hill Top, South Yorkshire

How to Use This Hill Top, South Yorkshire Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Hill Top, South Yorkshire, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

Drag the map to pan to any area of South Yorkshire or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Hill Top and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.

OS MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows OS Outdoor mapping — contours, footpaths, bridleways and access land. Explorer 1:25k shows the OS Explorer sheets themselves: the orange-covered 1:25 000 maps walkers, fell runners and mountain rescue teams use, with field boundaries, rights of way and open access land. The search box finds any British town, village or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Hill Top.

Reading the map like a paper Explorer sheet. Click Grid to overlay the OS National Grid, labelled along the edges exactly as a printed sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference such as NY 266 234 by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as an OS National Grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what mountain rescue and the coastguard work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need mobile coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your grid reference stays correct even where the map itself cannot load, which in the Lakes, the Dales and the Highlands is often exactly where you need it.

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PlaceHill Top
Traditional CountySouth Yorkshire
District / BoroughSheffield
RegionYorkshire and the Humber
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Latitude53.399170
Longitude-1.575652
Place TypeHamlet

About Hill Top

Hill Top commands a high, exposed ridge where the wind frequently carries the scent of damp earth and distant gritstone. It lies 4.6 miles west-north-west of Sheffield (from Sheffield: bearing 285°T, OS grid SK 283 892), and is situated south-south-east of Dungworth village. The terrain here drops sharply away from the houses, falling toward the currents of Ughill Brook that carve a narrow path through the valley floor below. Sunlight often hits the stone walls of Hill Top with a peculiar clarity, highlighting the rugged textures of the local masonry against the darkening moorland horizon. To the north, the expanse of Damflask Reservoir glimmers like a fallen piece of sky, reflecting the shifting moods of the South Yorkshire weather. Life in this high corner of the district remains tethered to the rhythms of the surrounding fields and the slow, persistent growth of the hedgerows. The horizon stretches wide, offering an uninterrupted view of the country that feels both vast and intimately known to those who walk its lanes. Hill Top remains a place of quiet endurance, defined more by the breadth of the open sky than by the clamour of the nearby industrial centres.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Ughill Brook (River) — 0.9 mi, 306° NW
  • Damflask Reservoir (Lake / Reservoir) — 1.3 mi, 336° NNW
  • Stannington Ruffs Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 1.5 mi, 093° E · 3 ha
  • Royds Clough (Valley) — 1.5 mi, 279° W
  • Fearney Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 1.5 mi, 222° SW
  • Mill Stream (Lake / Reservoir) — 1.5 mi, 086° E
  • Rivelin Dams (Lake / Reservoir) — 1.6 mi, 199° SSW
  • River Rivelin (River) — 1.6 mi, 179° S
  • Little Matlock Rolling Mill Immediately South And East Of Olive Terrace (Scheduled Monument) — 1.6 mi, 087° E · 1 ha
  • Oak Sculpture (Public Artwork) — 1.9 mi, 174° S
  • Stone Circle On Ash Cabin Flat, 560M North East Of Reservoir Cottages (Scheduled Monument) — 2.0 mi, 203° SSW
  • Castle Hill Motte And Bailey Castle, High Bradfield (Scheduled Monument) — 2.0 mi, 341° NNW · 2 ha
  • Furnace Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 2.1 mi, 273° W
  • WW1 Firing Range (Historic Ruins) — 2.2 mi, 061° ENE
  • Hallam Field (Park) — 2.3 mi, 142° SE
  • Wadsley Fossil Forest Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 2.6 mi, 061° ENE
  • Ocean View (Historic Ruins) — 2.7 mi, 218° SW
  • Yorkshire Natural History Museum (Museum) — 2.9 mi, 087° E
  • Middlewood Park (Park) — 3.0 mi, 062° ENE
  • Whiteley Woods (Forest / Woodland) — 3.1 mi, 144° SE
  • Porter Valley Parks (Historic Park or Garden) — 3.1 mi, 148° SSE · 70 ha
  • Shepherd Wheel (Museum) — 3.2 mi, 139° SE
  • Mayfield Alpacas (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 3.3 mi, 174° S
  • Bole Edge Plantation (Forest / Woodland) — 3.6 mi, 295° WNW
  • Weston Park Museum (Museum) — 3.6 mi, 109° ESE
  • Alfred Denny Museum (Museum) — 3.8 mi, 108° ESE
  • University of Sheffield Drama Studio (Theatre) — 3.8 mi, 111° ESE
  • Film Unit (Cinema) — 3.9 mi, 109° ESE
  • Sheffield General Cemetery (Historic Park or Garden (Grade II*)) — 4.2 mi, 120° ESE · 6 ha
  • Whirlow Hall Farm Trust (Attraction) — 4.2 mi, 156° SSE

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About This Hill Top Map Page

Explore Hill Top, South Yorkshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 53.399170, -1.575652. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.

Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any British town, village or landmark by name; offers OS Outdoor and the OS Explorer 1:25 000 sheets as base layers; overlays a labelled OS National Grid so the map can be read like a printed Explorer sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as an OS National Grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require mobile coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the grid reference remains correct even where the map cannot load.

Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.

Page builtSeptember 2026
Location dataOS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; OS Outdoor and OS Explorer 1:25 000 via the OS Maps API — contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights; magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
County dataTraditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography.
CoordinatesWGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data.