hectares. The site is listed as being of national importance in the Geological Conservation Review. During the Napoleonic Wars, the Wensleydale volunteers responded to a false alarm when the beacon on Penhill in North Yorkshire was lit in response to a supposed lit beacon on Roseberry Topping, 40 miles distant. This turned out to be burning heather. In popular culture In Joseph Reed's 1761 farce, The Register-Office, the character Margery Moorpout, who hails from 'Yatton', sings the praises of 'Roſeberry', which she claims to be a mile and a half high: Certainly God! ye knaw Roſeberry? I thought ony Fule had knawn Roſeberry!—It's t' biggeſt Hill in oll Yorkſhire—It's aboun a Mile an a hofe high, an as coad as Ice at' top on't i't hetteſt Summer's Day—that it's. In 1783, Thomas Pierson, a blacksmith, a watchmaker and schoolmaster from the nearby town of Stokesley wrote an eponymous poem about the hill. Pierson's work was much-admired locally and it was re-published in 1847. Roseberry Topping has also featured in popular music. It is mentioned in a song by the folk-rock group America on their Hat Trick album. Chris Rea also dedicated the song "Chisel Hill" from the album Shamrock Diaries to Roseberry Topping. The guitarist Gordon Giltrap released an instrumental track named "Roseberry Topping" on his 2010 album Shining Morn. The hill also appears in the 2018 videogame Forza Horizon 4 although it is referred to as ‘The Great Ridge'. References External links Roseberry Topping information at the National Trust Roseberry Topping trail routes at Visit Great Ayton Mountains and hills of North Yorkshire National Trust properties in North Yorkshire Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cleveland, England North York Moors