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Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles

January 14, 2023

The mountains and hills of the British Isles are categorised into various lists based on different combinations of elevation, prominence, and other criteria such as isolation. These lists are used for peak bagging, whereby hillwalkers attempt to reach all the summits on a given list, the oldest being the 282 Munros in Scotland, created in 1891.

Scafell Pike in the Lake District in Cumbria. Scafell Pike is the highest mountain in England, the 257th-highest mountain in the British Isles on the Simms classification, the 138th-highest mountain on the Marilyn classification, and the 46th-highest mountain on the P600 classification. Scafell Pike has the 13th-greatest "relative height" (or prominence) in the British Isles. It is also classed as a HuMP, a Furth, a Hewitt, a Nuttall, a Wainright, a Birkett, and a County Top.[1]

A height above 2,000 ft, or more latterly 610 m, is considered necessary to be classified as a mountain – as opposed to a hill – in the British Isles. With the exception of Munros, all the lists require a prominence above 15 metres (49.21 ft). A prominence of between 15 and 30 metres (49.21 and 98.43 ft) (e.g. some Nuttalls and Vandeleur-Lynams), does not meet the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA) definition of an "independent peak", which is a threshold over 30 metres (98 ft). Most lists consider a prominence between 30 and 150 metres (98.43 and 492.1 ft) as a "top" (e.g. many Hewitts and Simms). Marilyns, meanwhile, have a prominence above 150 metres (492.1 ft), with no additional height threshold. They range from small 150-metre (490 ft) hills to the largest mountains. Prominences above 600 metres (1,969 ft), meet the P600 (the "Majors") classification, which is the UIAA international classification of a "major" mountain.

General concepts

Elevation

 
Elevation and prominence criteria used in the classification of mountains and hills in the British Isles.[2]

There is no worldwide consensus on the definition of mountain versus a hill, but in Great Britain and Ireland it is usually taken to be any summit with an elevation of at least 2,000 feet (or 610 metres).[3][4][5][6] The UK government legally defines a mountain as land over 600 metres (1,969 ft) for the purposes of freedom of access.[7] When Calf Top in Cumbria was re-surveyed in 2016 and confirmed to be 6 millimetres above the 609.6 m threshold for a 2,000 ft peak, the Ordnance Survey described Calf Top as England's "last mountain".[8]

Regardless of the technical definition of a mountain, cultural norms also feature, with mountains in Scotland being frequently referred to as hills irrespective of their height; examples being the Cuillin Hills and the Torridon Hills.[5][9]

Prominence

All British Isles-wide mountain classifications, and most country-specific classifications, include an explicit minimum topographical prominence threshold (also called relative height, or drop, or re-ascent, between neighbouring peaks), which is typically 30–600 m (98–1,969 ft).[6][9]

The lowest prominence threshold is 15 metres (49.21 ft) (e.g. Nuttalls, and Vandeleur-Lynams), but most classifications have a prominence threshold above 30 metres (98.43 ft). Many classifications use the term "Tops" for peaks with prominence between 30–150 metres (98.43–492.1 ft) (e.g. Donald Tops), while other classifications ignore height and just focus purely on prominence (e.g. P600s, Marilyns, and HuMPs).[9]

Prominence requirements feature in International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA) classifications of Himalayan mountains.[10][11] In 1994, the UIAA stated that for a "peak" to be independent (and not a sub-peak), it needed a prominence over 30 metres (98 ft), and a "mountain" had to have a prominence above 300 metres (980 ft).[12]

Unlike the single measurement of elevation, prominence requires the measurement of all contours around the peak and is therefore subject to greater revision over time, and thus classification lists based on prominence are subject to change.[13] Some definitions use an imperial measurement for height, but a metric measurement for the topological prominence (e.g. Murdos, Hewitts, and Nuttalls.[9]

Isolation

No British Isles classification uses a quantitative metric of topographic isolation (such as the distance to the next point of equal height). However, the concept is embedded in the qualitative definition of a Scottish Munro, and the Scottish Mountaineering Club requirement of "sufficient separation".[14]

Database of British and Irish Hills

The Database of British and Irish Hills (DoBIH) was created in 2001 "with the intention of providing a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for British hillwalkers".[15][16][17] It is maintained by a team of seven editors, and is described by the Long Distance Walkers Association as "now the most reliable online source for all Registers" (i.e. all lists of summits attained).[18] The DoBIH has been used as a source by books, hillwalking websites and smartphone apps, including Mark Jackson's 2010 book on the HuMPS, titled More Relative Hills of Britain.[19]

The DoBIH is available as a downloadable database,[16] or in an online version under the title Hill Bagging.[a][21] As of October 2020 the database included 20,976 hills, including all Marilyns, HuMPs, TuMPs, Simms, Dodds, Munros and Tops, Corbetts and Tops, Grahams and Tops, Donalds and Tops, Furths, Hewitts, Nuttalls, Buxton & Lewis, Bridges, Yeamans, Clems, Murdos, Deweys, Donald Deweys, Highland Fives, Wainwrights, Birketts, Synges, Fellrangers, County tops, SIBs (Significant Islands of Britain), Dillons, Arderins, Vandeleur-Lynams, Carns and Binnions.[22]

Since 2012, the DoBIH has had a data-sharing agreement with the Irish online database of mountains and hills known as MountainViews.[15]

British Isles

P600 (the "Majors")

 
Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the British Isles; it also has the greatest topographic prominence.
Main article: List of P600 mountains in the British Isles

The P600s are mountains in the British Isles that have a topographical prominence of at least 600 metres (1,969 feet), regardless of absolute height or other merits.[23] The list initially used a 2,000 ft metric (or 609.6 m, the P610s) but this was subsequently reduced to 600 m and the list became known as the "Majors". The list is authored by Mark Trengove. The definitive version is published on his Europeak website[24] and in the Database of British and Irish Hills.[25] It is one of the shortest of the classification lists of mountains in the British Isles as it has testing threshold criteria.

In 2006, 93 P600s were identified in Great Britain: 82 in Scotland, four in England and seven in Wales. These, together with one in Northern Ireland, one on the Isle of Man, and 24 in the Republic of Ireland, brought the total number of P600 mountains in the British Isles to 119.[24][25] Later, the Welsh peak Moel Siabod's prominence was remapped at 600 metres (2,000 ft) and the list of P600s expanded to 120. In 2018 a GNSS survey gave a prominence of 599.9m.[26] Although the margin of error means the result is not conclusive, it was accepted by Mark Trengove, who was present on the survey, bringing the total back to 119. More recently available LIDAR data for the col would give a prominence of 599.7m. In February 2020 a GNSS survey of Beinn Odhar Bheag in conjunction with OS trig point data for Rois-Bheinn found the former to be 1 metre higher.[27] Accordingly, Beinn Odhar Bheag has replaced Rois-bheinn in the P600 list.[24]

The British Isles' P600s contain 54 of the 282 Scottish Munros, and 10 of the 34 Non-Scottish Munros called § Furths; these 64 British Isles' mountains meet the designation of being above 3,000 feet (914 metres) in height, and 600 metres (1,969 feet) in prominence.[25]

P600 is an international mountain classification criterion, along with P1500 (or Ultras), for a prominence above 1,500 metres (4,921 feet).[28][29] The online version of The Database of British and Irish Hills also offers a P500 mountain classification: summits with a prominence above 500 metres (1,640 feet).[30]

Marilyns

Examples of Marilyns
 
Bishop Wilton Wold (height, 248 m)
 
Stac an Armin (height, 196 m)
 
Ben Lui (height, 1,135 m)
Main article: List of Marilyns in the British Isles

The Marilyns are mountains and hills in the British Isles that have a topographical prominence above 150 metres (490 feet), regardless of absolute height or other merits.[31][9] As of April 2020, there were 1,552 Marilyns in Great Britain: 1,219 in Scotland, 175 in England, and 158 in Wales (Black Mountain, on the England-Wales border, is counted as being in Wales).[31] There are 454 Marilyns in Ireland (389 in the Republic of Ireland and 66 in Northern Ireland), and five on the Isle of Man, bringing the total for the British Isles to 2,011.[31]

The list was first compiled in 1992 by Alan Dawson.[9][28] The name was coined as a humorous contrast to the designation Munro, which is homophonous with [Marilyn] Monroe.[9] The Marilyns are one of the most popular lists for peak baggers, and because of the lack of any height threshold, the classification includes a wide range of hills and mountains, and some sea stacks (pictured right).[9][31]

HuMPs

The Marilyns were expanded in 2007 by the HuMPs (Hundred and upwards Metre Prominence), which reduced the prominence requirement to 100 m (330 ft); all British Isles Marilyns are British Isles HuMPS (but not vice versa).[19][32] Though he did not use the term HuMP, Eric Yeaman's Handbook of the Scottish Hills (1989) is considered an early source as it included lists of hills with a prominence above 100 m.[32] The name and first formal British Isles list was compiled by Mark Jackson from a number of sources and published online in 2010 in More Relative Hills of Britain.[19] As of April 2020, there were 2,984 HuMPs in the British Isles: 2,167 in Scotland, 833 in Ireland, 441 in England, 368 in Wales and 11 in the Channel Islands.[32] Jackson maintains a "Hall of Fame" for climbers who have summited 1,200 HuMPs.[19]

Simms

Main article: List of mountains of the British Isles by height

A Simm is a mountain in the British Isles that is over 600 m (1,969 ft) high and has a prominence of at least 30 m (98 ft).[33] The word comes from Six-hundred Metre Mountain.[33] As of April 2020, there are 2,755 recorded Simms in the British Isles, including 2,190 Scottish Simms, 192 English Simms, 149 Welsh Simms, one Isle of Man Simm, and 223 Irish Simms.[b][33] By definition all Simms are also TuMPs (see below) and most, if not all, are mountains, depending on whether 600 metres or 2,000 feet (610 m) (e.g. a § Hewitts), is used as the criterion. The idea of the Simm was introduced by Alan Dawson in June 2010, who noted that a Simm was the "broadest credible definition of what could be objectively conceived as a mountain in Britain".[28] As of October 2018, 6,414 people had registered themselves as having climbed all 282 Scottish Munros,[34] by March 2020 11 people had registered climbing all 1,557 Marilyns of Great Britain,[35] while by Aug 2021 only four people had registered completion of the 2,531 Simms of Great Britain, three of whom have also declared completion of all 2,755 Simms of the British Isles.[36] July 2020 saw one summit promoted and one deleted, and by 24/07/2020 all of the three initial completers had "topped up".

TuMPs

In 2010, Mark Jackson further expanded the HuMPS and compiled the TuMPs (Thirty and upwards Metre Prominence), a list of all hills in Britain having a prominence above 30 m (98 ft).[37][38] By definition, all Murdos, Corbett Tops, Graham Tops, Hewitts and Deweys are also TuMPs. As of April 2020, there are 17,127 TuMPs;[37] approximately half of that number that did not appear in previously researched lists were researched by Mark Jackson between 2006 and 2009. Since 2012 the list has been published and maintained by the editors of The Database of British and Irish Hills.[39]

Scotland only

Munros

Main articles: Munro, List of Munro mountains, and List of Munros in Scotland by Section
 
Ben Hope, in the Flow Country, is the most northerly Munro

The Munros are mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet (914.4 m).[40] The list was originally compiled by Sir Hugh Munro in 1891, and is modified from time to time by the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC),[14][41] an example being the delisting in December 2020 of Stob Coire na Cloiche as a Munro top, now recognised as being of only 912.5 metres (2,994 ft).[42] Unlike most other lists, the Munros do not depend on a rigid prominence criterion for entry; instead, those that satisfy the subjective measure of being a "separate mountain" are regarded as Munros, while subsidiary summits are given the status of Munro Tops.[9] There are 282 Munros, and 226 further Munro Tops, totalling 508 summits, all of them in the Scottish Highlands.[40][14]

Real Munro is used to describe Munros with a prominence over 150 metres (490 ft) (the Marilyn prominence threshold),[43] and there are 202 Real Munros in Scotland. Of the 282 Scottish Munros, 54 meet the 600 metres (1,969 ft) prominence threshold to be classified as P600s.[44]

Metric Munro is used to describe the Munros with a height above 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) and a prominence either over 200 metres (660 ft) (of which there are 88), or a prominence over 100 metres (330 ft) (of which there are 130),[45] but the term is not in widespread use.[44]

Murdos

 
Càrn na Criche, the highest Murdo that is not classed as a Munro
Main article: List of Murdo mountains

The Murdos apply a quantitive criteria to the Munros and their associated tops, and comprise all of the summits in Scotland over 3,000 feet (914.4 m) with a prominence above 30 metres (98 ft).[46] There are 442 Murdos, compared to 282 Munros (or 508 Munros plus Munro Tops); one of the Munros does not qualify as a Murdo (Maoile Lunndaidh), and 66 of the Munro Tops do not qualify as Murdos.[46][47]

Alan Dawson first compiled the list in 1995 as an objective and quantitative alternative to the more qualitative SMC definition of a Munro.[47] Dawson's threshold is in line with the 1994 UIAA declaration that an "independent peak" has to have a prominence of over 30 metres (98 ft).[12] Unlike all other Scottish mountain and hill classifications, the SMC does not maintain an official list of Murdos.[48] All Murdos are either SMC Munros or SMC Munro Tops.[49][39]

Corbetts

 
Merrick in the Southern Uplands, is both a Corbett and a Donald
Main article: List of Corbett mountains

The Corbetts are peaks in Scotland that are between 2,500 and 3,000 feet (762.0 and 914.4 m) high with a prominence of at least 500 feet (152.4 m).[50][51] The list was compiled in the 1920s by John Rooke Corbett, a Bristol-based climber and SMC member, and was published posthumously after his sister passed it to the SMC.[14][41] As of April 2020, there were 222 Corbetts.[50][14] Climbers who climb all of the Corbetts are called Corbetteers; the first being Corbett himself who completed in 1943.[14]

A list of Corbett Tops, covering mountains in Scotland between 2,500 and 3,000 feet (762.0 and 914.4 m) in height and with between 100 and 500 feet (30.48 and 152.4 m) of prominence, was published by Alan Dawson in 2001. There are 455 Corbett Tops, and thus 677 Corbetts and Corbett Tops in total.[39][50]

Grahams

 
Sgùrr na Coinnich in Skye is the Graham with the greatest prominence
Main article: List of Graham mountains

The Grahams are mountains in Scotland between 2,000 and 2,499 feet (610 and 762 metres) high, with a drop of at least 150 metres (490 feet) all round.[52][53] A list of 224 mountains fitting these criteria was first published in 1992 by Alan Dawson in The Relative Hills of Britain,[9] as the Elsies (LCs, short for Lesser Corbetts).[14] They were later named Grahams after the late Fiona Torbet (née Graham) who had compiled a similar list around the same time. Dawson continues to maintain the list, which as of April 2020 contained 219 hills distributed as follows: Highlands south of the Great Glen 87, Highlands north of the Great Glen 84, Central and Southern Scotland 23, Skye 10, Mull 7, Harris 3, Jura 2, Arran 1, Rum 1, South Uist 1.[52][14] There are six differences from the original list of 224 Grahams that arose from re-surveys. Creag na h-Eararuidh replaced neighbour Beinn Dearg (which was 1.7 m or 5 ft 7 in lower).[54] Five Grahams were dropped including: Ben Aslak, Corwharn and Ladylea Hill as they were below the 609.6 metres (2,000 ft) height threshold; Cnoc Coinnich as it was above the 2,500 feet (760 m) height threshold; Stob na Boine Druim-fhinn as it was below the 150 metres (490 ft) prominence threshold.[39][54][55] Climbers who summit all of the Grahams are known as Grahamists.[54]

In 2004, Dawson published a list of Graham Tops covering every mountain in Scotland with between 2,000 and 2,500 feet (609.6 and 762.0 m) of height and between 30 and 150 metres (98 ft 5 in and 492 ft 2 in) of prominence. There are 776 Graham Tops, thus giving an overall total of 995 Grahams and Graham Tops.[39]

Donalds

 
Corserine, the highest point of the Rhinns of Kells range, is a Marilyn, a Donald, and a Corbett
Main article: List of Donald mountains

The Donalds are mountains in the Scottish Lowlands over 2,000 ft (610 m), amongst other criteria.[56] The list was compiled by Percy Donald in 1935, and is maintained by the SMC.[41] The classification is determined by a complicated formula which also contains qualitative elements around "sufficient topographical interest".[57] The formula necessitates splitting Donalds into Donald Hills and Donald Tops; in general, Donald Hills have a prominence over 100 feet (30.5 m), but the prominence of Donald Tops can range from 16–220 feet (4.9–67.1 m).[14] Donalds can be Corbetts or Grahams and the SMC state that: "Percy Donald's original Tables are seen as a complete entity, unlike the Munros, Corbetts and Grahams."[57] As of April 2020, there are 140 Donalds, comprising 89 Donald Hills and 51 Donald Tops.[56][57]

Given the complexity of the Donald classification, the simpler New Donalds was introduced by Alan Dawson in his 1995 book The Grahams and the New Donalds, with an explicit prominence threshold of 30 m (98.4 ft);[56][58] there are 118 New Donalds, and while all Donald Hills are New Donalds, 22 Donald Tops are not.[59]

Hughs

The Hughs (Hills Under Graham Height) are a list compiled by Andrew Dempster, who published The Hughs: Scotland's Best Wee Hills Under 2,000 Feet: Volume 1: The Mainland in 2015.[60][61] Dempster describes them as "hills with attitude, not altitude" and says "the three key words are prominence, position, panorama". He lists 100 summits in the mainland volume, and plans a second volume to list 100 summits on the islands.[62] As of 2021 they are not listed in the DBIH but have attracted attention from peakbaggers.[63][64]

Outside Scotland

Furths

 
Caher, an Irish Furth, and the only Furth with a prominence below 30 m[c]
Main article: List of Furth mountains in the British Isles

Furths are mountains in Great Britain and Ireland that are furth of (i.e. "outside") Scotland, and which would otherwise qualify as Scottish Munros or Munro Tops.[14][65] They are sometimes referred to as the Irish, the English or the Welsh Munros. There are 34 furths; 15 in Wales, 13 in Ireland and six in England. The highest is Snowdon. Of these 34 SMC identified Furths, 33 have a prominence above 30 m (98 ft) (e.g. the Murdo Furths), 14 have a prominence above 150 m (490 ft) (e.g. the Real Munro Furths), and 10 have a prominence above 600 m (2,000 ft) (e.g. the P600 Furths).[14][65]

The Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) maintains the list of Furths and records claims of Munroists who go on to complete the Furths (called "Furthists").[66]

Hewitts

 
Calf Top in Cumbria, the smallest Hewitt which was confirmed in 2016 as almost exactly 2,000 ft.[d]
Main article: List of Hewitt mountains in England, Wales and Ireland

The Hewitts, named after the initials of their definition, are "hills in England, Wales and Ireland over two thousand" feet (609.6 m), with a relative height of at least 30 metres (98 ft).[67] The English[68] and Welsh,[69] lists were compiled and are maintained by Alan Dawson.[68] Dawson originally called them "Sweats" in his book, from "Summits – Wales and England Above Two thousand".[70] the Irish component was compiled and maintained by Clem Clements[71] up to his death in 2012; it is now maintained by the DoBIH along with his list of Irish Marilyns. The list is a subset of the Nuttall classification (see below), and excludes the 125 least prominent Nuttalls from the list.[68]

As of March 2019, the DoBIH listed 525 Hewitts, 209 in Ireland,[b] 180 in England and 136 in Wales. Since their publication in 1997, Birks Fell and Calf Top in England and Mynydd Graig Goch have been added and Black Mountain deemed to be in Wales only. The combination of Murdos, Corbett Tops and Graham Tops comprise the Scottish equivalent of the Hewitts, but their author Alan Dawson regards those classifications as obsolete. Hewitts are a sub-class of the newer 2010 British Isles classification, the § Simms, or "metric Hewitt", with a 600 metres (1,968.5 ft) height threshold, and a 30 metres (98.4 ft) prominence threshold. Dawson still maintains a list of Hewitts.[72]

Nuttalls

 
Skiddaw, an English Nuttall
Main article: List of Nuttall mountains in England and Wales

The Nuttalls are mountains in England and Wales only that are over 2,000 feet (610 m), and with a relative height of at least 15 metres (49 ft).[73][74] There were 444 Nuttalls in the original list (254 in England and 190 in Wales), compiled by John and Anne Nuttall and published in 1989–90 in two volumes, The Mountains of England & Wales.[3][74] After updates, the total of Nuttalls reached 446 in August 2018 with the inclusion of Miller Moss.[73][75][76]

By including high points that rise by as little as 15 metres (49 ft) above their surroundings, the list of Nuttalls is sometimes criticised for including too many insignificant minor tops; the Hewitts (see above) are one attempt to avoid this.[68] Some Nuttalls would not be considered peaks or mountains under UIAA definitions.[12]

With the exception of Pillar Rock, a rocky outcrop on Pillar in the Lake District, the peaks of all of the Nuttalls can be reached without resort to rock climbing.[73][74] As of October 2018, 302 people are recorded as having completed the list, though this includes some who did not climb Pillar Rock, which the authors permit. They have also announced that Tinside Rigg and Long Fell (added to the list in 2016) need not be summited as they are in a restricted area of Warcop Artillery Range.[77]

England only

Wainwrights

Main articles: List of Wainwrights and The Outlying Fells of Lakeland

The Wainwrights are mountains or hills (locally known as fells) in the English Lake District National Park that have a chapter in one of Alfred Wainwright's Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells.[78] There are 214 Wainwrights in the seven guides, and there are no qualifications for inclusion other than Wainwright's choice, although in the introduction he stated that he would include all summits over 1,000-feet in height, with a prominence above 50 feet.[78][79] An exception was made for Castle Crag in Borrowdale, at 951 feet (290 m); Wainwright stated that although it was below his 1,000-feet criterion, it was a perfect mountain in miniature and demanded inclusion.[79] A further 116 summits were included in the supplementary guide, The Outlying Fells of Lakeland, and are known as the Wainwright Outlying Fells.[78]

Birketts

Main article: List of Birketts
 
Pillar Rock in the Lake District National Park is the only Birkett where use of ropes is advised.[80][81]

The Birketts are all the tops over 1,000 feet (304.8 m) within the boundaries of the Lake District National Park. Height and location, but not prominence, are the criteria.[80][82] The list was devised by Bill Birkett as the basis for his 1994 book Complete Lakeland Fells.[83] There are 541 of these tops, and they include 209 of the 214 Wainwrights, and 59 of the 116 Wainwright Outlying Fells.[80][82] The five Wainwrights that are not Birketts are Armboth Fell, Baystones, Castle Crag (which, at 951 feet (290 m), is Wainwright's only sub-1,000 ft summit), Graystones and Mungrisdale Common; Birketts are listed in the § Database of British and Irish Hills.[39]

Synges

The Database of British and Irish Hills recognises as Synges the 647 Lake District summits in Tim Synge's The Lakeland Summits: Survey of the Fells of the Lake District National Park (1995),[84][85]. Two hills have been added to the original list: High Rigg in 2017 and Oakhowe Crag in 2020. The current list is available on the Hill Bagging website.[86] There is no height or prominence threshold.[84][87]

Ireland only

See also: Lists of mountains in Ireland
 
Mweelrea is the highest Provincial Top in Connaught, the highest County Top in Mayo, the 5th highest Irish P600 mountain, the 14th highest Irish Marilyn mountain, the 16th highest Irish MountainViews mountain, the 26th highest Irish Arderin/Hewitt mountain, and the 34th highest Irish Vandeleur-Lynam/Nuttall mountain. It is not a Furth (or Irish Munro), and therefore not a Real Munro.[88]

Vandeleur-Lynams

A Vandeleur-Lynam is the Irish equivalent of a Nuttall, except that the definition is fully metric with a height requirement of 600 metres (1,969 ft), and a prominence requirement of 15 metres (49 ft).[89][90] As with the Nuttalls, Vandeleur-Lynams do not meet the UIAA requirements for a "peak" or for a "mountain".[12] In 1952, Irish climber Joss Lynam made a list of 2,000 ft Irish summits with a 50 ft drop aided by Rev CRP Vandeleur.[91] Lynam updated his list, and published it in the book, Mountaineering in Ireland (1976) by Claude Wall,[91] and later made a metric version published in 1997.[91] There are 273 Vandeleur-Lynams in Ireland.[89][92]

Arderins

 
The summit of Arderin (527 m) mountain in Ireland, the 344th highest Arderin in Ireland, and the Irish County Top for both Laois and Offaly counties

The Arderins are mountains in Ireland above 500 m (1,640 ft), with a prominence over 30 m (98 ft).[90][93] The list was drawn up in 2002 by the Irish MountainViews publisher Simon Stewart from an early listing of the Myrddyn Deweys with hills from the Vandeleur-Lynams which meet the higher prominence criterion.[90] The name Arderins was first used in 2009, and comes from the 527-metre (1,729 ft) hill Arderin, which is the County Top for County Laois and County Offaly in Ireland, and translates as "Height of Ireland".[94] The Arderins were published in the 2013 book, "A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: The Vandeleur-Lynams & the Arderins".[90] According to the MountainViews Online Database, Ireland has 407 Arderins, of which 207 are over 2,000 ft and classed as Hewitts, and the 222 are over 600 m and classed as Simms.[b][95][93]

In addition, Mountainviews uses the term Arderin Begs for the additional class of peaks over 500 m (1,640 ft) in height, and with a prominence between 15–30 m (49–98 ft); in 2018, Ireland had 124 Arderin Begs.[96]

MountainViews

In 2013, Simon Stewart, publisher of Irish mountain database MountainViews Online Database, published A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: The Vandeleur-Lynams & the Arderins.[90] In the book, Stewart proposed a new classification of an Irish mountain, being one with a height above 500 m (1,640 ft), and a prominence over 100 m (328 ft). Stewart identified 222 Irish peaks as meeting his new classification. MountainViews used this definition to create the list of 100 Highest Mountains in Ireland,[97] which has also become popular in Ireland.[98][99]

Carns

MountainViews and Database of British and Irish Hills recognise a list of 337 summits as Carns, having height above 100 m (328 ft) and below 400 m (1,312 ft), and with a prominence over 30 metres (98 ft).[100][101][85]

Binnions

MountainViews and Database of British and Irish Hills recognise a list of 484 summits as Binnions, having a prominence of at least 100 m (328 ft) and a height below 400 m (1,312 ft).[102][103][85] Binnion Hill is a peak of 250 metres (820 ft) in height in County Donegal, site of the Battle of Binnion Hill, and possibly the source of the name.[104]

Wales only

The Mud and Routes website includes a list of WASHIS: Welsh And Six Hundred In Stature, 118 summits which are over 600m (1,969 ft) and have a prominence of at least 50 metres (160 ft), with the comment that "Wales doesn't have a list of summits in its own right", but the term does not appear to have been adopted elsewhere.[105]

County tops

Climbing to the highest point of each county is a form of peak bagging,[44][106] dating back to the 1920s when John Rooke Corbett was attempting to visit all British County Tops.[9]

Other active lists

Deweys

The Deweys and related categories extend the Hewitts of England, Wales and Ireland to 500 metres, and include summits in Scotland, where there are no Hewitts.

  • The Deweys are peaks in England, Wales and the Isle and Man between 500 metres and 2,000 feet (609.6 metres) in height, with a prominence above 30 metres (98 feet), which were listed by Michael Dewey in 1995.[107] Deweys extend the England and Wales Hewitts below 2,000 feet, but above 500 metres. There are 426 Deweys identified: 241 in Wales, 180 in England, and five in the Isle of Man.[108]
  • The Donald Deweys are peaks in the Scottish lowlands (similar to the Donald classification), between 500 metres and 2,000 feet (609.6 metres) in height, with a prominence above 30 metres (98 feet), which were listed by David Purchase in 2001.[109] Donald Deweys are the Scottish lowland equivalent of Deweys. There are 248 Donald Deweys.[109]
  • The Highland Fives are peaks in the Scottish highlands, between 500 metres and 2,000 feet (609.6 metres) in height, with a prominence above 30 metres (98 feet). The first listing was compiled by Rob Woodall in 2003 using contributions from Tony Payne and others.[110] The list was adopted by The Database of British and Irish Hills[111] in 2011, who overhauled the list and with Woodall's agreement took over its maintenance and named it the Highland Fives. Highland Fives are the Scottish highland equivalent of Deweys. There are 774 Highland Fives.[110]
  • The Myrddyn Deweys are peaks in Ireland, between 500 metres and 2,000 feet (609.6 metres) in height with a prominence above 30 metres (98 feet), listed by Michael Dewey and Myrddyn Phillips and made freely available to the Mountaineering Council of Ireland in 2000.[112] Myrddyn Deweys are the Irish equivalent of Deweys. In 2011 the data was re-examined against the latest mapping. There are 200 Myrddyn Deweys.[112]

Dodds

The Dodds comprises hills between 500 and 600 metres in height, with a prominence above 30 metres (98 feet). The list was conceived in December 2014 in an article in Marhofn magazine[113] as a unification of those parts of the Deweys, Donald Deweys and Highland Fives below 600m to create a metric list that can be viewed as a downwards extension of the Simms (British hills over 600m high). The acronym comes from "Donald Deweys, Deweys and Scotland". A Subdodd is a hill which just fails (by up to 10m) to qualify on the drop rule, i.e. between 500m and 600m with 20-29m drop.

The list was first published by the Database of British and Irish Hills,[114] who maintain the list, in December 2017 after it had been recognised by the Relative Hills Society.[115] The geographical coverage was originally confined to Britain, but was extended to the Isle of Man in February 2020 and to Ireland in September 2020.[116]

Hardys

A Hardy is the highest point of a UK, Manx or Channel Island hill range, a UK island over 1,000 acres (400 hectares) or 4.05 km2) or a UK top-tier administrative area (counties and unitary authorities). There are now 347 Hardys with the recent addition (up to July 2016) of five low lying English coastal estuary islands: 61 hill ranges, 96 islands and 190 administrative areas. 183 are in England, 31 in Wales, 107 in Scotland and 26 in Northern Ireland. The list was first compiled in the 1990s by Ian Hardy.[117][118]

Non-active lists

Bridges

The Database of British and Irish Hills recognises as Bridges the 407 summits in George Bridge's Mountains of England and Wales: Tables of the 2000ft Summits (1973).[85][119][120] Bridge used a prominence threshold of 50 feet (15 m), but was hampered by the accuracy of the maps available at the time, and the list was effectively replaced by the Nuttalls, which uses the metric equivalent of 15 m – 49 ft.[87][120]

Buxton & Lewis

The Database of British and Irish Hills recognises as Buxton & Lewis the 422 summits in Mountain Summits of England and Wales (1986) by Chris Buxton and Gwyn Lewis.[85][121][122] Buxton and Lewis used a prominence threshold of two contour rings on the OS 1:50,000 map, and the number of hills is similar to the Nuttalls and the Bridges.[87][122]

Clems

The Database of British and Irish Hills recognises as Clems the 1,284 summits in the list Yeamans of England & Wales compiled in 1993 by E. D. Clements, known as Clem, by applying Yeaman's criterion of "an eminence which has an ascent of 100m all round, or, failing that, is at least 5 km (walking distance) from any higher point on neighbouring hills" to summits in England, Wales and the Isle of Man, together with 14 summits which he added later. They were named Clems after his death, and formed the basis of the later list of HuMPs.[123][124]

Fellrangers

The Database of British and Irish Hills recognises as Fellrangers the 230 (originally 227) Lake District summits in Mark Richards' Fellranger series of eight guidebooks (originally published by HarperCollins, starting with Central Fells ISBN 9780007113651; reprinted by Cicerone Press; 2013 boxed set ISBN 978-1852847487; new editions 2019-2021),[85][125] A list is available on the HillBagging website.[126] There is no height or prominence threshold.[87][125] The original list included 18 fells not included in the 214 Wainwrights, some of which are listed among Wainwright's "Outlying fells".[127] The 2019-2021 edition includes a further three summits to bring the total to 230, the additions being Winterscleugh (Bretherdale Common), Whinfell Beacon and Grayrigg Forest, all in the Mardale and the far east volume.[128]

Yeamans

The Database of British and Irish Hills recognises as Yeamans (sometimes spelled Yeomans) the 2,441 summits identified by Eric Yeaman in his Handbook of the Scottish Hills (1989, Arbroath:Wafaida ISBN 0951432400) with later changes. His criterion was "an eminence which has an ascent of 100 m all round, or, failing that, is at least 5 km (walking distance) from any higher point on neighbouring hills". Yeamans produced an update in 2001, and the list was used as the basis by those developing the later list of HuMPs, but the category is now considered to be "historic" and has not been updated since 2001.[124][129]

Regional lists

The following are lists of hills for a given region in the British Isles:

England:

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The DoBIH is licensed under a "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License".[20]
  2. ^ a b c As of March 2019, the Irish MountainViews Online Database lists the prominence of Knockbrinnea (W) as 29m, and Carrignabinnia as 27 m, and thus they do not qualify as Arderins. Due to the use of different sources, the DoBIH gives their prominence as 30 m and they are thus classed as Irish Hewitts and Simms, giving 209 Irish Hewitts and 224 Irish Simms on the DoBIH tables.
  3. ^ 33 of the 34 SMC Furths have a prominence above 30 metres (98 feet), although Caher West Top in Ireland, has a prominence of 24 metres (79 feet).
  4. ^ The Ordnance Survey confirmed in 2016 that Calf Top was 6 millimetres above the 609.6 m threshold for a 2,000 ft mountain, and confirmed Calf Top as England's "last mountain".[8]

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  8. ^ a b "Calf Top: England's last mountain". Ordnance Survey. 8 September 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2020. In all probability Calf Top will be the last such hill to become a mountain in England.
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  10. ^ "Nepal mountain peak expansion bid stalls". BBC News. 18 October 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  11. ^ "A funny name for a mountain". MarkHorrell.com. 4 June 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2020. I explained how these five ridgetops couldn’t possibly be classified as 8000m peaks in their own right because each of them requires less than 135 metres of re-ascent between their respective parent peaks, Kangchenjunga and Lhotse (known as topographic prominence). It seems that where logic and common sense fail the NMA feels that flattery may work instead.
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  23. ^ "Hill Classification". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 8 October 2020. P600, P600 m Peaks, 600 m+, SWEIM, British and Irish hills with at least 600 m of prominence, also known as the Major Mountains of Britain & Ireland.
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  30. ^ "The P500 Peaks".
  31. ^ a b c d "The Marilyns". HillBaggingUK. 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2020. A Marilyn is "a hill of any height with a drop of 150 metres (nearly 500 ft) or more on all sides". So it is a hill which is relatively high compared to its surroundings.
  32. ^ a b c "The HuMPS". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 16 April 2020. The Humps: Humps are hills of any height with a drop of 100 metres or more on all sides. The name Hump stands for HUndred Metre Prominence. By definition, all Marilyns qualify as Humps (but not vice versa). A Subhump is a hill which just fails (by up to 10m) to qualify on the drop rule, i.e. drop of 90m to 99m on all sides.
  33. ^ a b c "The SIMMs". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 16 April 2020. The Simms: A Simm is a hill in England, Wales or Scotland over 600m high with a drop of at least 30 metres all-round. Simm is an acronym for Six-hundred Metre Mountain. The Irish and Isle of Man Simms are also listed on this website. A Sub-Simm is a hill which just fails (by up to 10m) to qualify on the drop rule, i.e. over 600m with 20-29m drop.
  34. ^ Clerk of the List (October 2018). "Compleators". Scottish Mountaineering Club. Retrieved 16 April 2020. The SMC hold a record of Munros, Corbetts, Grahams and Donalds compleators.
  35. ^ Dawson, Alan (31 December 2017). "The Marilyn Hall of Fame (Marhof)". The Relative Hills of Britain (rhb.org.uk). Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  36. ^ Dawson, Alan (6 July 2020). "Simm Hall of Fame". The Relative Hills of Britain (rhb.org.uk). Retrieved 16 April 2020. A Simm is a hill in Britain that is at least 600 metres high and has a drop of at least 30 metres on all sides. Only three people are known to have climbed all 2531 Simms, but anyone with at least 2000 Simms is eligible for the Simm Hall of Fame. As this is a distant target for many baggers, the Simm Corridor is open to those who have climbed at least 1500 Simms.
  37. ^ a b "The TuMPs". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 16 April 2020. The Tumps: A Tump is a hill in Scotland, England, Wales, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands which is separated from adjacent tops by a height difference of at least 30 metres on all sides. The higher of the Tumps, including all over 500m in height, are included on other lists such as the Simms and Deweys. For the lower Tumps, the accuracy of the data on this site is not necessarily as dependable nor subject to as much scrutiny as those above 500m. For lower lying hills it can be much more difficult to identify the actual summit, so some grid references given may be more an indication of the general area of the summit. There is also a greater likelihood of encountering access problems when trying to bag lower Tumps, so please be considerate of land ownership and usage.
  38. ^ "Marilyn Hall of Fame News (Marhofn)". Relative Hills of Britain. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  39. ^ a b c d e f "Database of British and Irish Hills". Retrieved 18 May 2015.
  40. ^ a b "The Munros". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 21 April 2020. The Munros: A Munro is a Scottish mountain over 3000 ft in height, distinct and separate from its surrounding mountains. Munro's Tables were originally compiled in 1891 by Sir Hugh Munro, but are now revised and maintained by the Scottish Mountaineering Club. ... A Munro Top is also a summit over 3000 ft, but considered to be a subsidiary top of a Munro.
  41. ^ a b c Bearhop, D.A. (1997). Munro's Tables. Glasgow, Scotland: Scottish Mountaineering Club & Trust. ISBN 0-907521-53-3.
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  43. ^ "Magnificent munros: 17 Scottish mountains to bag in your lifetime". The Telegraph. 13 April 2017. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12. Of the 282, 200 are said to have a summit prominence of over 150 metres and are therefore known as "real munros", but that's for another day.
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  45. ^ "Metric Munros". Peakbaggers. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  46. ^ a b "The Murdos". HillBaggingUK. A Murdo is a Scottish mountain over 3000ft (914.4m) in height, with a drop of at least 30 metres (98 feet) on all sides. All Murdos are also Munros or Munro Tops. All Munros are Murdos, but not all Munro Tops are Murdos. A Submurdo is a hill that just fails (by up to 10m) to qualify on the drop rule, i.e. over 3000ft with 20-29m drop. Murdos are a subset of the Simms.
  47. ^ a b Dawson, Alan (1995). . Cambuskenneth, Stirling: TACit Press. ISBN 0-9522680-3-5. Archived from the original on 2006-06-15.
  48. ^ "Munros". Scottish Mountaineering Club. 2018.
  49. ^ "Murdos". Database of British and Irish Hills. 3 August 2018. Murdos: Scottish hills at least 3000 feet in height with a drop of at least 30 metres on all sides. All Murdos are Munros or Munro Tops but some Munro Tops fail to qualify as Murdos. The list now has "historic" status.
  50. ^ a b c "The Corbetts". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 21 April 2020. A Corbett is "a Scottish hill between 2500 and 2999 feet high with a drop of at least 500 feet (152.4m) on all sides". They are named after the list's original compiler, J.Rooke Corbett. The Corbetts are a subset of the Marilyns.
  51. ^ Dawson, Alan; Hewitt, Dave (1999). Corbett Tops and Corbetteers. Cambuskenneth, Stirling: TACit Press. ISBN 0-9534376-1-2.
  52. ^ a b "The Grahams". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 21 April 2020. A Graham is "a Scottish hill between 2000 and 2499 feet high with a drop of at least 150 metres on all sides". The Grahams are also a subset of the Marilyns.
  53. ^ Dawson, Alan; Clements, E.D. 'Clem'; Gordon, James (2004). Graham Tops and Grahamists. Cambuskenneth, Stirling: TACit Press. ISBN 0-9534376-2-0.
  54. ^ a b c Dawson, Alan (1 August 2018). "The Grahamists". The Relative Hills of Britain (rhb.org.uk). Retrieved 28 April 2020. Grahamists are people who have climbed all the hills that were classed as Grahams at the time they recorded finishing the list. Current number of Grahams: 219. Current number of recorded Grahamists: 170
  55. ^ The Grahams and the Donalds. Glasgow, Scotland: Scottish Mountaineering Trust. 2015. ISBN 978-1-907233-19-7.
  56. ^ a b c "The Donalds and Donald Tops". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 21 April 2020. The Donalds are named after Percy Donald and his list of hills over 2000 feet in the Scottish Lowlands. They are based on a complicated formula for determining separate hills, and originally comprised 87 hills plus a number of other named "Tops". The New Donalds are an attempt to rationalize the qualifying criteria, being "hills in Central or Southern Scotland at least 2000 feet high (610m) with a drop of at least 30 metres (98 feet) all round". All New Donalds are either a Donald or a Donald Top, but some of the Donald Tops do not qualify as New Donalds.
  57. ^ a b c "Donalds". Scottish Mountaineering Club. 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2020. There are currently 89 Donald Hills and a further 51 Donald Tops. A complete round of The Donalds should include all 140 summits. Percy Donald's original Tables are seen as a complete entity, unlike the Munros, Corbetts and Grahams.
  58. ^ Alan Dawson (May 1995). "Review: The Grahams and the New Donalds". The Relative Hills of Britain (rhb.org.uk).
  59. ^ "The New Donalds". HillBaggingUK. 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2020. The New Donalds are an attempt to rationalize the qualifying criteria, being "hills in Central or Southern Scotland at least 2000 feet high (610m) with a drop of at least 30 metres (98 feet) all round". All New Donalds are either a Donald or a Donald Top, but some of the Donald Tops do not qualify as New Donalds.
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  62. ^ Dempster, Andrew (2015). The Hughs Scotland's best wee hills under 2,000 feet: Volume 1: The Mainland. Luath Press. ISBN 978-1-910324-67-7.
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  64. ^ "HUGH Bagging List + HUGHs GPS Waypoints". www.haroldstreet.org.uk. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  65. ^ a b "The Furths". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 21 April 2020. A Furth is a 3000 ft peak of the British Isles furth of Scotland. Traditionally the Furths only include hills with a drop of at least 30 metres (98 feet) on all sides.
  66. ^ "Furth Completists (Furthists) List". Final Furths and Furthists. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  67. ^ "The Hewitts". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 21 April 2020. A Hewitt is "a Hill in England, Wales or Ireland over Two Thousand feet high (610m) with a drop of at least 30 metres (98 feet) all round". The Hewitts of England and Wales are therefore a subset of the Nuttalls. A Subhewitt is a hill which just fails (by up to 10m) to qualify on the drop rule, i.e. over 610m with 20-29m drop. Note that the subHewitts formerly included hills between 600m and 610m, but these are now simply classified as Deweys.
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  71. ^ Clements, E.D. 'Clem' (1998). The Hewitts and Marilyns of Ireland. Cambuskenneth, Stirling: TACit Press. ISBN 0-9522680-8-6.
  72. ^ Chris Crocker. "Database Notes: Hewitts". Database of British and Irish Hills. In June 2010 Dawson created the Simms (Six-hundred Metre Mountains; originally called Sims) by combining the Murdos, Corbett Tops, Graham Tops and Hewitts and lowering the height threshold to 600m. [...] Hewitts are Hills in England, Wales and Ireland at least 2000 feet high with a drop of at least 30 metres on all sides. Although subsumed into the Simms, the list has been retained by its author.
  73. ^ a b c "The Nuttals". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 21 April 2020. The definition of a Nuttall is "any summit of 2000ft (610m) or more which rises above its surroundings on all sides by at least 50ft (15m)". The Nuttalls list includes Pillar Rock which cannot be ascended without rock climbing equipment.
  74. ^ a b c Nuttall, John; Nuttall, Anne (2009). The Mountains of England & Wales – Volume 1: Wales (3rd ed.). Milnthorpe: Cicerone Press. ISBN 978-1852845940.
  75. ^ Nuttall, John; Nuttall, Anne. "Changes". The Mountains of England and Wales. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  76. ^ "Lake District hill Miller Moss reclassified as a mountain". BBC News. 10 August 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
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  78. ^ a b c "Wainwrights and Wainwright Outlying Fells". HillBaggingUK. 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2020. The Wainwrights: The Wainwrights are a list of hills appearing in the seven volumes of Alfred Wainwright's Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells; the list is subjective – some of the hills are not summits at all – just prominent points at the end of a ridge or spur from a higher mountain.
    The [Wainwright] Outlying Fells: Wainwright produced an additional volume entitled The Outlying Fells of Lakelands.
  79. ^ a b Wainwright, Alfred (1992). Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells Book One — The Eastern Fells. London, England: White Lion Publishing. ISBN 978-0718140007.
  80. ^ a b c "The Birketts". HillBaggingUK. 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2020. The Birketts are all the Lake District hills over 1,000ft as listed in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells. The Birketts list includes Pillar Rock which cannot be ascended without rock climbing equipment.
  81. ^ "Pillar Rock". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 17 April 2020. Pillar Rock, qualifying as a separate summit to Pillar (Lake District) itself in the Nuttalls and other lists [the Birketts], is the bane of summit baggers everywhere. Wainwright says that, to walkers "Pillar Rock is positively out of bounds. Don't even try to get a foothold on it". It's graded as a "moderate" rock climb.
  82. ^ a b "Birketts". Database of British and Irish Hills. 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  83. ^ Birkett, Bill (1994). Complete Lakeland Fells. England: HarperCollins, Premier Books. ISBN 0583-32209-3.
  84. ^ a b Synge, Tim (March 1995). The Lakeland Summits: A Survey of the Fells of the Lake District National Park. England: Sigma Press. ISBN 978-1850584469.
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  86. ^ "The Synges". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 8 November 2018. The Synges are Lake District hills listed in The Lakeland Summits: Survey of the Fells of the Lake District National Park by Timothy Synge.
  87. ^ a b c d "Other Lists". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 8 November 2018.
  88. ^ "Mweelrea [Maol Reidh]". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  89. ^ a b "The Vandeleur-Lynams". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 21 April 2020. A Vandeleur-Lynam is a hill in Ireland at least 600 metres high with a drop of at least 15 metres on all sides. In 1952, Joss Lynam made a list of 2,000ft summits with 50ft drop with assistance from Rev CRP Vandeleur. Joss Lynam updated a version of this list and published it in a reprint of "Mountaineering in Ireland" by Claude Wall printed in 1976. The metricised equivalent was published in 1997. Lynam was actively involved with the list until 2002, thereafter assisting MountainViews with subsequent revisions until his death in 2011.
  90. ^ a b c d e Stewart, Simon (2013). A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: The Vandeleur-Lynams & the Arderins. Cork: Collins Books. ISBN 978-1848891647.
  91. ^ a b c "The Vandeleur-Lynams". HillBaggingUK.
  92. ^ Stewart, Simon. "Vandeleur-Lynams: Irish mountains of 600+m with a prominence of 15m". MountainViews.ie. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  93. ^ a b "The Arderins". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 21 April 2020. An Arderin is a hill in Ireland of 500m or over with a drop of at least 30m on all sides. This list was drawn up in 2002 by the MountainViews publisher from an early listing of the MyrddynDeweys with those hills from the Vandeleur-Lynams which meet the higher drop criterion. The list name, created in 2009, comes from the 527m hill which is the County Top for both Laois and Offaly and means, from the Irish, "Height of Ireland".
  94. ^ "The Arderins". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  95. ^ Stewart, Simon (October 2018). "Arderins: Irish mountains of 500+m with a prominence of 30m". MountainViews.ie. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  96. ^ Stewart, Simon (2018). "Arderins + Arderin Begs: Irish mountains of 500+m with a prominence of 15+m". MountainViews.ie. Retrieved 17 April 2020. Listing selection: All summits (531) in list Arderins + Arderin Begs
  97. ^ Stewart, Simon (2018). "Credits and Acknowledgements: Lists of the summits, islands and coastal features for Ireland". Mountainviews.ie. Retrieved 16 April 2020. The "Hundred Highest" list includes summits with a prominence at a minimum of 100 m, and has been introduced to give a height based list, not too long, with a spread of locations for Ireland.
  98. ^ "10 of the Highest Mountains to Climb in Ireland". Outsider.ie. 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2020. We've compiled a list of the 10 highest mountains in Ireland for you to get your teeth into.
  99. ^ "The Complete Guide to Exploring Ireland's Mountains". Outsider.ie. 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2020. Top 50 highest peaks in Ireland: MountainViews.ie
  100. ^ "Hill Classification". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 21 April 2020. Ca, Carn, 400-499m, 30m+, As classified on the Mountain Views website
  101. ^ Stewart, Simon. "Carns". MountainViews.ie. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
  102. ^ "Hill Classification". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 21 April 2020. Bin, Binnion, 0-400m, 100m+, As classified on the Mountain Views website
  103. ^ Stewart, Simon. "Binnions". MountainViews.ie. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
  104. ^ Stewart, Simon. "Binnion Hill". MountainViews.ie. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
  105. ^ "WASHIS The Highest Hills in Wales over 600m". Mud and Routes. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  106. ^ "Hill Classification". HillBaggingUK. Retrieved 21 April 2020. County Tops: CoH (Historic County Top (pre-1974)), CoA (Administrative County Top (1974 to mid-1990s)), CoU (Current County/UA Top)
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  108. ^ "The Deweys". HillBaggingUK. The Deweys: A Dewey is "a mountain or hill in England, Wales or the Isle of Man, that exceeds 500 metres in height, but is below 610 metres (2000ft) in altitude; it must be separated from adjacent tops by a height difference of at least 30 metres on all sides". The definition is similar to the Hewitts and Simms, except that Hewitts must be above 2000ft, and Simms above 600m. The Deweys are named after the list's compiler, Michael Dewey, the list appearing as one of the chapters in his book, Mountain Tables.
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Further reading

  • Dawson, Alan (1992). The Relative Hills of Britain. Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone Press. ISBN 978-1852840686.
  • Jackson, Mark (2009). More Relative Hills of Britain (PDF). Database of British and Irish HIlls. Retrieved 15 April 2020.

External links

  • Hill Bagging UK & Ireland, the searchable interface for the DoBIH
  • MountainViews: Irish Online Mountain Database, the searchable database for the MountainViews
  • The Relative Hills of Britain, a website dedicated to mountain and hill classification
  • County tops on Wikishire

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The mountains and hills of the British Isles are categorised into various lists based on different combinations of elevation prominence and other criteria such as isolation These lists are used for peak bagging whereby hillwalkers attempt to reach all the summits on a given list the oldest being the 282 Munros in Scotland created in 1891 Scafell Pike in the Lake District in Cumbria Scafell Pike is the highest mountain in England the 257th highest mountain in the British Isles on the Simms classification the 138th highest mountain on the Marilyn classification and the 46th highest mountain on the P600 classification Scafell Pike has the 13th greatest relative height or prominence in the British Isles It is also classed as a HuMP a Furth a Hewitt a Nuttall a Wainright a Birkett and a County Top 1 A height above 2 000 ft or more latterly 610 m is considered necessary to be classified as a mountain as opposed to a hill in the British Isles With the exception of Munros all the lists require a prominence above 15 metres 49 21 ft A prominence of between 15 and 30 metres 49 21 and 98 43 ft e g some Nuttalls and Vandeleur Lynams does not meet the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation UIAA definition of an independent peak which is a threshold over 30 metres 98 ft Most lists consider a prominence between 30 and 150 metres 98 43 and 492 1 ft as a top e g many Hewitts and Simms Marilyns meanwhile have a prominence above 150 metres 492 1 ft with no additional height threshold They range from small 150 metre 490 ft hills to the largest mountains Prominences above 600 metres 1 969 ft meet the P600 the Majors classification which is the UIAA international classification of a major mountain Contents 1 General concepts 1 1 Elevation 1 2 Prominence 1 3 Isolation 1 4 Database of British and Irish Hills 2 British Isles 2 1 P600 the Majors 2 2 Marilyns 2 3 HuMPs 2 4 Simms 2 5 TuMPs 3 Scotland only 3 1 Munros 3 2 Murdos 3 3 Corbetts 3 4 Grahams 3 5 Donalds 3 6 Hughs 4 Outside Scotland 4 1 Furths 4 2 Hewitts 4 3 Nuttalls 5 England only 5 1 Wainwrights 5 2 Birketts 5 3 Synges 6 Ireland only 6 1 Vandeleur Lynams 6 2 Arderins 6 3 MountainViews 6 4 Carns 6 5 Binnions 7 Wales only 8 County tops 9 Other active lists 9 1 Deweys 9 2 Dodds 9 3 Hardys 10 Non active lists 10 1 Bridges 10 2 Buxton amp Lewis 10 3 Clems 10 4 Fellrangers 10 5 Yeamans 11 Regional lists 12 See also 13 Notes 14 References 14 1 Further reading 15 External linksGeneral concepts EditElevation Edit Elevation and prominence criteria used in the classification of mountains and hills in the British Isles 2 There is no worldwide consensus on the definition of mountain versus a hill but in Great Britain and Ireland it is usually taken to be any summit with an elevation of at least 2 000 feet or 610 metres 3 4 5 6 The UK government legally defines a mountain as land over 600 metres 1 969 ft for the purposes of freedom of access 7 When Calf Top in Cumbria was re surveyed in 2016 and confirmed to be 6 millimetres above the 609 6 m threshold for a 2 000 ft peak the Ordnance Survey described Calf Top as England s last mountain 8 Regardless of the technical definition of a mountain cultural norms also feature with mountains in Scotland being frequently referred to as hills irrespective of their height examples being the Cuillin Hills and the Torridon Hills 5 9 Prominence Edit All British Isles wide mountain classifications and most country specific classifications include an explicit minimum topographical prominence threshold also called relative height or drop or re ascent between neighbouring peaks which is typically 30 600 m 98 1 969 ft 6 9 The lowest prominence threshold is 15 metres 49 21 ft e g Nuttalls and Vandeleur Lynams but most classifications have a prominence threshold above 30 metres 98 43 ft Many classifications use the term Tops for peaks with prominence between 30 150 metres 98 43 492 1 ft e g Donald Tops while other classifications ignore height and just focus purely on prominence e g P600s Marilyns and HuMPs 9 Prominence requirements feature in International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation UIAA classifications of Himalayan mountains 10 11 In 1994 the UIAA stated that for a peak to be independent and not a sub peak it needed a prominence over 30 metres 98 ft and a mountain had to have a prominence above 300 metres 980 ft 12 Unlike the single measurement of elevation prominence requires the measurement of all contours around the peak and is therefore subject to greater revision over time and thus classification lists based on prominence are subject to change 13 Some definitions use an imperial measurement for height but a metric measurement for the topological prominence e g Murdos Hewitts and Nuttalls 9 Isolation Edit No British Isles classification uses a quantitative metric of topographic isolation such as the distance to the next point of equal height However the concept is embedded in the qualitative definition of a Scottish Munro and the Scottish Mountaineering Club requirement of sufficient separation 14 Database of British and Irish Hills Edit The Database of British and Irish Hills DoBIH was created in 2001 with the intention of providing a comprehensive up to date resource for British hillwalkers 15 16 17 It is maintained by a team of seven editors and is described by the Long Distance Walkers Association as now the most reliable online source for all Registers i e all lists of summits attained 18 The DoBIH has been used as a source by books hillwalking websites and smartphone apps including Mark Jackson s 2010 book on the HuMPS titled More Relative Hills of Britain 19 The DoBIH is available as a downloadable database 16 or in an online version under the title Hill Bagging a 21 As of October 2020 update the database included 20 976 hills including all Marilyns HuMPs TuMPs Simms Dodds Munros and Tops Corbetts and Tops Grahams and Tops Donalds and Tops Furths Hewitts Nuttalls Buxton amp Lewis Bridges Yeamans Clems Murdos Deweys Donald Deweys Highland Fives Wainwrights Birketts Synges Fellrangers County tops SIBs Significant Islands of Britain Dillons Arderins Vandeleur Lynams Carns and Binnions 22 Since 2012 the DoBIH has had a data sharing agreement with the Irish online database of mountains and hills known as MountainViews 15 British Isles EditP600 the Majors Edit Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in the British Isles it also has the greatest topographic prominence Main article List of P600 mountains in the British Isles The P600s are mountains in the British Isles that have a topographical prominence of at least 600 metres 1 969 feet regardless of absolute height or other merits 23 The list initially used a 2 000 ft metric or 609 6 m the P610s but this was subsequently reduced to 600 m and the list became known as the Majors The list is authored by Mark Trengove The definitive version is published on his Europeak website 24 and in the Database of British and Irish Hills 25 It is one of the shortest of the classification lists of mountains in the British Isles as it has testing threshold criteria In 2006 93 P600s were identified in Great Britain 82 in Scotland four in England and seven in Wales These together with one in Northern Ireland one on the Isle of Man and 24 in the Republic of Ireland brought the total number of P600 mountains in the British Isles to 119 24 25 Later the Welsh peak Moel Siabod s prominence was remapped at 600 metres 2 000 ft and the list of P600s expanded to 120 In 2018 a GNSS survey gave a prominence of 599 9m 26 Although the margin of error means the result is not conclusive it was accepted by Mark Trengove who was present on the survey bringing the total back to 119 More recently available LIDAR data for the col would give a prominence of 599 7m In February 2020 a GNSS survey of Beinn Odhar Bheag in conjunction with OS trig point data for Rois Bheinn found the former to be 1 metre higher 27 Accordingly Beinn Odhar Bheag has replaced Rois bheinn in the P600 list 24 The British Isles P600s contain 54 of the 282 Scottish Munros and 10 of the 34 Non Scottish Munros called Furths these 64 British Isles mountains meet the designation of being above 3 000 feet 914 metres in height and 600 metres 1 969 feet in prominence 25 P600 is an international mountain classification criterion along with P1500 or Ultras for a prominence above 1 500 metres 4 921 feet 28 29 The online version of The Database of British and Irish Hills also offers a P500 mountain classification summits with a prominence above 500 metres 1 640 feet 30 Marilyns Edit Examples of Marilyns Bishop Wilton Wold height 248 m Stac an Armin height 196 m Ben Lui height 1 135 m Main article List of Marilyns in the British Isles The Marilyns are mountains and hills in the British Isles that have a topographical prominence above 150 metres 490 feet regardless of absolute height or other merits 31 9 As of April 2020 there were 1 552 Marilyns in Great Britain 1 219 in Scotland 175 in England and 158 in Wales Black Mountain on the England Wales border is counted as being in Wales 31 There are 454 Marilyns in Ireland 389 in the Republic of Ireland and 66 in Northern Ireland and five on the Isle of Man bringing the total for the British Isles to 2 011 31 The list was first compiled in 1992 by Alan Dawson 9 28 The name was coined as a humorous contrast to the designation Munro which is homophonous with Marilyn Monroe 9 The Marilyns are one of the most popular lists for peak baggers and because of the lack of any height threshold the classification includes a wide range of hills and mountains and some sea stacks pictured right 9 31 HuMPs Edit The Marilyns were expanded in 2007 by the HuMPs Hundred and upwards Metre Prominence which reduced the prominence requirement to 100 m 330 ft all British Isles Marilyns are British Isles HuMPS but not vice versa 19 32 Though he did not use the term HuMP Eric Yeaman s Handbook of the Scottish Hills 1989 is considered an early source as it included lists of hills with a prominence above 100 m 32 The name and first formal British Isles list was compiled by Mark Jackson from a number of sources and published online in 2010 in More Relative Hills of Britain 19 As of April 2020 there were 2 984 HuMPs in the British Isles 2 167 in Scotland 833 in Ireland 441 in England 368 in Wales and 11 in the Channel Islands 32 Jackson maintains a Hall of Fame for climbers who have summited 1 200 HuMPs 19 Simms Edit Main article List of mountains of the British Isles by height A Simm is a mountain in the British Isles that is over 600 m 1 969 ft high and has a prominence of at least 30 m 98 ft 33 The word comes from Six hundred Metre Mountain 33 As of April 2020 there are 2 755 recorded Simms in the British Isles including 2 190 Scottish Simms 192 English Simms 149 Welsh Simms one Isle of Man Simm and 223 Irish Simms b 33 By definition all Simms are also TuMPs see below and most if not all are mountains depending on whether 600 metres or 2 000 feet 610 m e g a Hewitts is used as the criterion The idea of the Simm was introduced by Alan Dawson in June 2010 who noted that a Simm was the broadest credible definition of what could be objectively conceived as a mountain in Britain 28 As of October 2018 update 6 414 people had registered themselves as having climbed all 282 Scottish Munros 34 by March 2020 11 people had registered climbing all 1 557 Marilyns of Great Britain 35 while by Aug 2021 only four people had registered completion of the 2 531 Simms of Great Britain three of whom have also declared completion of all 2 755 Simms of the British Isles 36 July 2020 saw one summit promoted and one deleted and by 24 07 2020 all of the three initial completers had topped up TuMPs Edit In 2010 Mark Jackson further expanded the HuMPS and compiled the TuMPs Thirty and upwards Metre Prominence a list of all hills in Britain having a prominence above 30 m 98 ft 37 38 By definition all Murdos Corbett Tops Graham Tops Hewitts and Deweys are also TuMPs As of April 2020 there are 17 127 TuMPs 37 approximately half of that number that did not appear in previously researched lists were researched by Mark Jackson between 2006 and 2009 Since 2012 the list has been published and maintained by the editors of The Database of British and Irish Hills 39 Scotland only EditMunros Edit Main articles Munro List of Munro mountains and List of Munros in Scotland by Section Ben Hope in the Flow Country is the most northerly Munro The Munros are mountains in Scotland over 3 000 feet 914 4 m 40 The list was originally compiled by Sir Hugh Munro in 1891 and is modified from time to time by the Scottish Mountaineering Club SMC 14 41 an example being the delisting in December 2020 of Stob Coire na Cloiche as a Munro top now recognised as being of only 912 5 metres 2 994 ft 42 Unlike most other lists the Munros do not depend on a rigid prominence criterion for entry instead those that satisfy the subjective measure of being a separate mountain are regarded as Munros while subsidiary summits are given the status of Munro Tops 9 There are 282 Munros and 226 further Munro Tops totalling 508 summits all of them in the Scottish Highlands 40 14 Real Munro is used to describe Munros with a prominence over 150 metres 490 ft the Marilyn prominence threshold 43 and there are 202 Real Munros in Scotland Of the 282 Scottish Munros 54 meet the 600 metres 1 969 ft prominence threshold to be classified as P600s 44 Metric Munro is used to describe the Munros with a height above 1 000 metres 3 300 ft and a prominence either over 200 metres 660 ft of which there are 88 or a prominence over 100 metres 330 ft of which there are 130 45 but the term is not in widespread use 44 Murdos Edit Carn na Criche the highest Murdo that is not classed as a Munro Main article List of Murdo mountains The Murdos apply a quantitive criteria to the Munros and their associated tops and comprise all of the summits in Scotland over 3 000 feet 914 4 m with a prominence above 30 metres 98 ft 46 There are 442 Murdos compared to 282 Munros or 508 Munros plus Munro Tops one of the Munros does not qualify as a Murdo Maoile Lunndaidh and 66 of the Munro Tops do not qualify as Murdos 46 47 Alan Dawson first compiled the list in 1995 as an objective and quantitative alternative to the more qualitative SMC definition of a Munro 47 Dawson s threshold is in line with the 1994 UIAA declaration that an independent peak has to have a prominence of over 30 metres 98 ft 12 Unlike all other Scottish mountain and hill classifications the SMC does not maintain an official list of Murdos 48 All Murdos are either SMC Munros or SMC Munro Tops 49 39 Corbetts Edit Merrick in the Southern Uplands is both a Corbett and a Donald Main article List of Corbett mountains The Corbetts are peaks in Scotland that are between 2 500 and 3 000 feet 762 0 and 914 4 m high with a prominence of at least 500 feet 152 4 m 50 51 The list was compiled in the 1920s by John Rooke Corbett a Bristol based climber and SMC member and was published posthumously after his sister passed it to the SMC 14 41 As of April 2020 there were 222 Corbetts 50 14 Climbers who climb all of the Corbetts are called Corbetteers the first being Corbett himself who completed in 1943 14 A list of Corbett Tops covering mountains in Scotland between 2 500 and 3 000 feet 762 0 and 914 4 m in height and with between 100 and 500 feet 30 48 and 152 4 m of prominence was published by Alan Dawson in 2001 There are 455 Corbett Tops and thus 677 Corbetts and Corbett Tops in total 39 50 Grahams Edit Sgurr na Coinnich in Skye is the Graham with the greatest prominence Main article List of Graham mountains The Grahams are mountains in Scotland between 2 000 and 2 499 feet 610 and 762 metres high with a drop of at least 150 metres 490 feet all round 52 53 A list of 224 mountains fitting these criteria was first published in 1992 by Alan Dawson in The Relative Hills of Britain 9 as the Elsies LCs short for Lesser Corbetts 14 They were later named Grahams after the late Fiona Torbet nee Graham who had compiled a similar list around the same time Dawson continues to maintain the list which as of April 2020 contained 219 hills distributed as follows Highlands south of the Great Glen 87 Highlands north of the Great Glen 84 Central and Southern Scotland 23 Skye 10 Mull 7 Harris 3 Jura 2 Arran 1 Rum 1 South Uist 1 52 14 There are six differences from the original list of 224 Grahams that arose from re surveys Creag na h Eararuidh replaced neighbour Beinn Dearg which was 1 7 m or 5 ft 7 in lower 54 Five Grahams were dropped including Ben Aslak Corwharn and Ladylea Hill as they were below the 609 6 metres 2 000 ft height threshold Cnoc Coinnich as it was above the 2 500 feet 760 m height threshold Stob na Boine Druim fhinn as it was below the 150 metres 490 ft prominence threshold 39 54 55 Climbers who summit all of the Grahams are known as Grahamists 54 In 2004 Dawson published a list of Graham Tops covering every mountain in Scotland with between 2 000 and 2 500 feet 609 6 and 762 0 m of height and between 30 and 150 metres 98 ft 5 in and 492 ft 2 in of prominence There are 776 Graham Tops thus giving an overall total of 995 Grahams and Graham Tops 39 Donalds Edit Corserine the highest point of the Rhinns of Kells range is a Marilyn a Donald and a Corbett Main article List of Donald mountains The Donalds are mountains in the Scottish Lowlands over 2 000 ft 610 m amongst other criteria 56 The list was compiled by Percy Donald in 1935 and is maintained by the SMC 41 The classification is determined by a complicated formula which also contains qualitative elements around sufficient topographical interest 57 The formula necessitates splitting Donalds into Donald Hills and Donald Tops in general Donald Hills have a prominence over 100 feet 30 5 m but the prominence of Donald Tops can range from 16 220 feet 4 9 67 1 m 14 Donalds can be Corbetts or Grahams and the SMC state that Percy Donald s original Tables are seen as a complete entity unlike the Munros Corbetts and Grahams 57 As of April 2020 there are 140 Donalds comprising 89 Donald Hills and 51 Donald Tops 56 57 Given the complexity of the Donald classification the simpler New Donalds was introduced by Alan Dawson in his 1995 book The Grahams and the New Donalds with an explicit prominence threshold of 30 m 98 4 ft 56 58 there are 118 New Donalds and while all Donald Hills are New Donalds 22 Donald Tops are not 59 Hughs Edit The Hughs Hills Under Graham Height are a list compiled by Andrew Dempster who published The Hughs Scotland s Best Wee Hills Under 2 000 Feet Volume 1 The Mainland in 2015 60 61 Dempster describes them as hills with attitude not altitude and says the three key words are prominence position panorama He lists 100 summits in the mainland volume and plans a second volume to list 100 summits on the islands 62 As of 2021 update they are not listed in the DBIH but have attracted attention from peakbaggers 63 64 Outside Scotland EditFurths Edit Caher an Irish Furth and the only Furth with a prominence below 30 m c Main article List of Furth mountains in the British Isles Furths are mountains in Great Britain and Ireland that are furth of i e outside Scotland and which would otherwise qualify as Scottish Munros or Munro Tops 14 65 They are sometimes referred to as the Irish the English or the Welsh Munros There are 34 furths 15 in Wales 13 in Ireland and six in England The highest is Snowdon Of these 34 SMC identified Furths 33 have a prominence above 30 m 98 ft e g the Murdo Furths 14 have a prominence above 150 m 490 ft e g the Real Munro Furths and 10 have a prominence above 600 m 2 000 ft e g the P600 Furths 14 65 The Scottish Mountaineering Club SMC maintains the list of Furths and records claims of Munroists who go on to complete the Furths called Furthists 66 Hewitts Edit Calf Top in Cumbria the smallest Hewitt which was confirmed in 2016 as almost exactly 2 000 ft d Main article List of Hewitt mountains in England Wales and Ireland The Hewitts named after the initials of their definition are hills in England Wales and Ireland over two thousand feet 609 6 m with a relative height of at least 30 metres 98 ft 67 The English 68 and Welsh 69 lists were compiled and are maintained by Alan Dawson 68 Dawson originally called them Sweats in his book from Summits Wales and England Above Two thousand 70 the Irish component was compiled and maintained by Clem Clements 71 up to his death in 2012 it is now maintained by the DoBIH along with his list of Irish Marilyns The list is a subset of the Nuttall classification see below and excludes the 125 least prominent Nuttalls from the list 68 As of March 2019 update the DoBIH listed 525 Hewitts 209 in Ireland b 180 in England and 136 in Wales Since their publication in 1997 Birks Fell and Calf Top in England and Mynydd Graig Goch have been added and Black Mountain deemed to be in Wales only The combination of Murdos Corbett Tops and Graham Tops comprise the Scottish equivalent of the Hewitts but their author Alan Dawson regards those classifications as obsolete Hewitts are a sub class of the newer 2010 British Isles classification the Simms or metric Hewitt with a 600 metres 1 968 5 ft height threshold and a 30 metres 98 4 ft prominence threshold Dawson still maintains a list of Hewitts 72 Nuttalls Edit Skiddaw an English Nuttall Main article List of Nuttall mountains in England and Wales The Nuttalls are mountains in England and Wales only that are over 2 000 feet 610 m and with a relative height of at least 15 metres 49 ft 73 74 There were 444 Nuttalls in the original list 254 in England and 190 in Wales compiled by John and Anne Nuttall and published in 1989 90 in two volumes The Mountains of England amp Wales 3 74 After updates the total of Nuttalls reached 446 in August 2018 with the inclusion of Miller Moss 73 75 76 By including high points that rise by as little as 15 metres 49 ft above their surroundings the list of Nuttalls is sometimes criticised for including too many insignificant minor tops the Hewitts see above are one attempt to avoid this 68 Some Nuttalls would not be considered peaks or mountains under UIAA definitions 12 With the exception of Pillar Rock a rocky outcrop on Pillar in the Lake District the peaks of all of the Nuttalls can be reached without resort to rock climbing 73 74 As of October 2018 update 302 people are recorded as having completed the list though this includes some who did not climb Pillar Rock which the authors permit They have also announced that Tinside Rigg and Long Fell added to the list in 2016 need not be summited as they are in a restricted area of Warcop Artillery Range 77 England only EditWainwrights Edit Main articles List of Wainwrights and The Outlying Fells of Lakeland The Wainwrights are mountains or hills locally known as fells in the English Lake District National Park that have a chapter in one of Alfred Wainwright s Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells 78 There are 214 Wainwrights in the seven guides and there are no qualifications for inclusion other than Wainwright s choice although in the introduction he stated that he would include all summits over 1 000 feet in height with a prominence above 50 feet 78 79 An exception was made for Castle Crag in Borrowdale at 951 feet 290 m Wainwright stated that although it was below his 1 000 feet criterion it was a perfect mountain in miniature and demanded inclusion 79 A further 116 summits were included in the supplementary guide The Outlying Fells of Lakeland and are known as the Wainwright Outlying Fells 78 Birketts Edit Main article List of Birketts Pillar Rock in the Lake District National Park is the only Birkett where use of ropes is advised 80 81 The Birketts are all the tops over 1 000 feet 304 8 m within the boundaries of the Lake District National Park Height and location but not prominence are the criteria 80 82 The list was devised by Bill Birkett as the basis for his 1994 book Complete Lakeland Fells 83 There are 541 of these tops and they include 209 of the 214 Wainwrights and 59 of the 116 Wainwright Outlying Fells 80 82 The five Wainwrights that are not Birketts are Armboth Fell Baystones Castle Crag which at 951 feet 290 m is Wainwright s only sub 1 000 ft summit Graystones and Mungrisdale Common Birketts are listed in the Database of British and Irish Hills 39 Synges Edit The Database of British and Irish Hills recognises as Synges the 647 Lake District summits in Tim Synge s The Lakeland Summits Survey of the Fells of the Lake District National Park 1995 84 85 Two hills have been added to the original list High Rigg in 2017 and Oakhowe Crag in 2020 The current list is available on the Hill Bagging website 86 There is no height or prominence threshold 84 87 Ireland only EditSee also Lists of mountains in Ireland Mweelrea is the highest Provincial Top in Connaught the highest County Top in Mayo the 5th highest Irish P600 mountain the 14th highest Irish Marilyn mountain the 16th highest Irish MountainViews mountain the 26th highest Irish Arderin Hewitt mountain and the 34th highest Irish Vandeleur Lynam Nuttall mountain It is not a Furth or Irish Munro and therefore not a Real Munro 88 Vandeleur Lynams Edit A Vandeleur Lynam is the Irish equivalent of a Nuttall except that the definition is fully metric with a height requirement of 600 metres 1 969 ft and a prominence requirement of 15 metres 49 ft 89 90 As with the Nuttalls Vandeleur Lynams do not meet the UIAA requirements for a peak or for a mountain 12 In 1952 Irish climber Joss Lynam made a list of 2 000 ft Irish summits with a 50 ft drop aided by Rev CRP Vandeleur 91 Lynam updated his list and published it in the book Mountaineering in Ireland 1976 by Claude Wall 91 and later made a metric version published in 1997 91 There are 273 Vandeleur Lynams in Ireland 89 92 Arderins Edit The summit of Arderin 527 m mountain in Ireland the 344th highest Arderin in Ireland and the Irish County Top for both Laois and Offaly counties The Arderins are mountains in Ireland above 500 m 1 640 ft with a prominence over 30 m 98 ft 90 93 The list was drawn up in 2002 by the Irish MountainViews publisher Simon Stewart from an early listing of the Myrddyn Deweys with hills from the Vandeleur Lynams which meet the higher prominence criterion 90 The name Arderins was first used in 2009 and comes from the 527 metre 1 729 ft hill Arderin which is the County Top for County Laois and County Offaly in Ireland and translates as Height of Ireland 94 The Arderins were published in the 2013 book A Guide to Ireland s Mountain Summits The Vandeleur Lynams amp the Arderins 90 According to the MountainViews Online Database Ireland has 407 Arderins of which 207 are over 2 000 ft and classed as Hewitts and the 222 are over 600 m and classed as Simms b 95 93 In addition Mountainviews uses the term Arderin Begs for the additional class of peaks over 500 m 1 640 ft in height and with a prominence between 15 30 m 49 98 ft in 2018 Ireland had 124 Arderin Begs 96 MountainViews Edit In 2013 Simon Stewart publisher of Irish mountain database MountainViews Online Database published A Guide to Ireland s Mountain Summits The Vandeleur Lynams amp the Arderins 90 In the book Stewart proposed a new classification of an Irish mountain being one with a height above 500 m 1 640 ft and a prominence over 100 m 328 ft Stewart identified 222 Irish peaks as meeting his new classification MountainViews used this definition to create the list of 100 Highest Mountains in Ireland 97 which has also become popular in Ireland 98 99 Carns Edit MountainViews and Database of British and Irish Hills recognise a list of 337 summits as Carns having height above 100 m 328 ft and below 400 m 1 312 ft and with a prominence over 30 metres 98 ft 100 101 85 Binnions Edit MountainViews and Database of British and Irish Hills recognise a list of 484 summits as Binnions having a prominence of at least 100 m 328 ft and a height below 400 m 1 312 ft 102 103 85 Binnion Hill is a peak of 250 metres 820 ft in height in County Donegal site of the Battle of Binnion Hill and possibly the source of the name 104 Wales only EditThe Mud and Routes website includes a list of WASHIS Welsh And Six Hundred In Stature 118 summits which are over 600m 1 969 ft and have a prominence of at least 50 metres 160 ft with the comment that Wales doesn t have a list of summits in its own right but the term does not appear to have been adopted elsewhere 105 County tops EditClimbing to the highest point of each county is a form of peak bagging 44 106 dating back to the 1920s when John Rooke Corbett was attempting to visit all British County Tops 9 List of counties of England and Wales in 1964 by highest point List of ceremonial counties of England by highest point List of Welsh principal areas by highest point List of Scottish counties by highest point List of Scottish council areas by highest point List of Irish counties by highest pointOther active lists EditDeweys Edit The Deweys and related categories extend the Hewitts of England Wales and Ireland to 500 metres and include summits in Scotland where there are no Hewitts The Deweys are peaks in England Wales and the Isle and Man between 500 metres and 2 000 feet 609 6 metres in height with a prominence above 30 metres 98 feet which were listed by Michael Dewey in 1995 107 Deweys extend the England and Wales Hewitts below 2 000 feet but above 500 metres There are 426 Deweys identified 241 in Wales 180 in England and five in the Isle of Man 108 The Donald Deweys are peaks in the Scottish lowlands similar to the Donald classification between 500 metres and 2 000 feet 609 6 metres in height with a prominence above 30 metres 98 feet which were listed by David Purchase in 2001 109 Donald Deweys are the Scottish lowland equivalent of Deweys There are 248 Donald Deweys 109 The Highland Fives are peaks in the Scottish highlands between 500 metres and 2 000 feet 609 6 metres in height with a prominence above 30 metres 98 feet The first listing was compiled by Rob Woodall in 2003 using contributions from Tony Payne and others 110 The list was adopted by The Database of British and Irish Hills 111 in 2011 who overhauled the list and with Woodall s agreement took over its maintenance and named it the Highland Fives Highland Fives are the Scottish highland equivalent of Deweys There are 774 Highland Fives 110 The Myrddyn Deweys are peaks in Ireland between 500 metres and 2 000 feet 609 6 metres in height with a prominence above 30 metres 98 feet listed by Michael Dewey and Myrddyn Phillips and made freely available to the Mountaineering Council of Ireland in 2000 112 Myrddyn Deweys are the Irish equivalent of Deweys In 2011 the data was re examined against the latest mapping There are 200 Myrddyn Deweys 112 Dodds Edit The Dodds comprises hills between 500 and 600 metres in height with a prominence above 30 metres 98 feet The list was conceived in December 2014 in an article in Marhofn magazine 113 as a unification of those parts of the Deweys Donald Deweys and Highland Fives below 600m to create a metric list that can be viewed as a downwards extension of the Simms British hills over 600m high The acronym comes from Donald Deweys Deweys and Scotland A Subdodd is a hill which just fails by up to 10m to qualify on the drop rule i e between 500m and 600m with 20 29m drop The list was first published by the Database of British and Irish Hills 114 who maintain the list in December 2017 after it had been recognised by the Relative Hills Society 115 The geographical coverage was originally confined to Britain but was extended to the Isle of Man in February 2020 and to Ireland in September 2020 116 Hardys Edit A Hardy is the highest point of a UK Manx or Channel Island hill range a UK island over 1 000 acres 400 hectares or 4 05 km2 or a UK top tier administrative area counties and unitary authorities There are now 347 Hardys with the recent addition up to July 2016 of five low lying English coastal estuary islands 61 hill ranges 96 islands and 190 administrative areas 183 are in England 31 in Wales 107 in Scotland and 26 in Northern Ireland The list was first compiled in the 1990s by Ian Hardy 117 118 Non active lists EditBridges Edit The Database of British and Irish Hills recognises as Bridges the 407 summits in George Bridge s Mountains of England and Wales Tables of the 2000ft Summits 1973 85 119 120 Bridge used a prominence threshold of 50 feet 15 m but was hampered by the accuracy of the maps available at the time and the list was effectively replaced by the Nuttalls which uses the metric equivalent of 15 m 49 ft 87 120 Buxton amp Lewis Edit The Database of British and Irish Hills recognises as Buxton amp Lewis the 422 summits in Mountain Summits of England and Wales 1986 by Chris Buxton and Gwyn Lewis 85 121 122 Buxton and Lewis used a prominence threshold of two contour rings on the OS 1 50 000 map and the number of hills is similar to the Nuttalls and the Bridges 87 122 Clems Edit The Database of British and Irish Hills recognises as Clems the 1 284 summits in the list Yeamans of England amp Wales compiled in 1993 by E D Clements known as Clem by applying Yeaman s criterion of an eminence which has an ascent of 100m all round or failing that is at least 5 km walking distance from any higher point on neighbouring hills to summits in England Wales and the Isle of Man together with 14 summits which he added later They were named Clems after his death and formed the basis of the later list of HuMPs 123 124 Fellrangers Edit The Database of British and Irish Hills recognises as Fellrangers the 230 originally 227 Lake District summits in Mark Richards Fellranger series of eight guidebooks originally published by HarperCollins starting with Central Fells ISBN 9780007113651 reprinted by Cicerone Press 2013 boxed set ISBN 978 1852847487 new editions 2019 2021 85 125 A list is available on the HillBagging website 126 There is no height or prominence threshold 87 125 The original list included 18 fells not included in the 214 Wainwrights some of which are listed among Wainwright s Outlying fells 127 The 2019 2021 edition includes a further three summits to bring the total to 230 the additions being Winterscleugh Bretherdale Common Whinfell Beacon and Grayrigg Forest all in the Mardale and the far east volume 128 Yeamans Edit The Database of British and Irish Hills recognises as Yeamans sometimes spelled Yeomans the 2 441 summits identified by Eric Yeaman in his Handbook of the Scottish Hills 1989 Arbroath Wafaida ISBN 0951432400 with later changes His criterion was an eminence which has an ascent of 100 m all round or failing that is at least 5 km walking distance from any higher point on neighbouring hills Yeamans produced an update in 2001 and the list was used as the basis by those developing the later list of HuMPs but the category is now considered to be historic and has not been updated since 2001 124 129 Regional lists EditThe following are lists of hills for a given region in the British Isles England List of hills of Cornwall List of hills of Dorset List of hills of Gloucestershire List of hills of Hampshire List of hills of Wiltshire List of hills in the Peak DistrictSee also EditList of mountain lists Lists of mountains List of mountains of the British Isles by heightNotes Edit The DoBIH is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4 0 Unported License 20 a b c As of March 2019 update the Irish MountainViews Online Database lists the prominence of Knockbrinnea W as 29m and Carrignabinnia as 27 m and thus they do not qualify as Arderins Due to the use of different sources the DoBIH gives their prominence as 30 m and they are thus classed as Irish Hewitts and Simms giving 209 Irish Hewitts and 224 Irish Simms on the DoBIH tables 33 of the 34 SMC Furths have a prominence above 30 metres 98 feet although Caher West Top in Ireland has a prominence of 24 metres 79 feet The Ordnance Survey confirmed in 2016 that Calf Top was 6 millimetres above the 609 6 m threshold for a 2 000 ft mountain and confirmed Calf Top as England s last mountain 8 References Edit Scafell Pike HillBaggingUK Retrieved 8 November 2018 Hill Classifications HillBaggingUK Retrieved 26 April 2020 a b Nuttall John Nuttall Anne 2008 The Mountains of England amp Wales Volume 2 England 3rd ed Milnthorpe Cicerone Press ISBN 978 1852845896 Survey turns hill into a mountain BBC News 19 September 2008 Retrieved 16 April 2020 a b Wilson Peter 2001 Listing the Irish hills and mountains Irish Geography Ulster University at Coleraine 34 1 89 95 doi 10 1080 00750770109555778 a b A Mountain is a Mountain isn t it go4awalk com Retrieved 16 April 2020 1 2 Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 PDF p 2 Retrieved 14 Feb 2013 mountain includes subject to the following definition any land situated more than 600 metres above sea level a b Calf Top England s last mountain Ordnance Survey 8 September 2016 Retrieved 16 April 2020 In all probability Calf Top will be the last such hill to become a mountain in England a b c d e f g h i j k Dawson Alan 1992 The Relative Hills of Britain Milnthorpe Cicerone Press ISBN 978 1852840686 Nepal mountain peak expansion bid stalls BBC News 18 October 2013 Retrieved 16 April 2020 A funny name for a mountain MarkHorrell com 4 June 2014 Retrieved 16 April 2020 I explained how these five ridgetops couldn t possibly be classified as 8000m peaks in their own right because each of them requires less than 135 metres of re ascent between their respective parent peaks Kangchenjunga and Lhotse known as topographic prominence It seems that where logic and common sense fail the NMA feels that flattery may work instead a b c d Mountain Classification UIAA March 1994 Retrieved 16 April 2020 Topographic criterium for each summit the level difference between it and the highest adjacent pass or notch should be at least 30 m calculated as an average of the summits at the limit of acceptability Dawson Alan March 2016 Surveying and mapping standards The Relative Hills of Britain rhb org uk Retrieved 16 April 2020 a b c d e f g h i j k Munros Furths Corbetts Grahams Donalds Scottish Mountaineering Club 2018 Retrieved 15 April 2020 The list of distinct Scottish peaks of 3000ft 914 4m and over of sufficient separation from their neighbouring peaks The list that was originally drawn up by Sir H T Munro in the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal in 1891 was unfinished at the time of his death Munro did not write down a precise definition of what he meant by sufficient separation though the character of a mountain did enter into it Through regular use these hills have become known as the Munros a b The Database of British and Irish Hills past present and future The Relative Hills of Britain rhb org uk May 2016 Retrieved 16 April 2020 a b Welcome The Database of British and Irish Hills Retrieved 10 October 2018 Birthday celebrations with two new Nuttalls Ordnance Survey 23 November 2016 Retrieved 16 April 2020 DoBIH was founded by Graham Jackson and Chris Crocker as a personal tool to help them log their own hill ascents However over the years DoBIH evolved into something much bigger with six editors and many hillwalkers supplying data Hillwakers Register Claim Form PDF Long Distance Walkers Association Retrieved 10 October 2018 a b c d Jackson Mark 2009 More Relative Hills of Britain PDF Database of British and Irish HIlls Retrieved 15 April 2020 Copyright Database of British and Irish Hills 3 August 2018 Retrieved 16 April 2020 We place no restrictions on use of the data by third parties and encourage authors of other websites and applications to do so We just ask users to observe the terms of the Creative Commons licence Hill Bagging the online version of the Database of British and Irish Hills HillBaggingUK Retrieved 8 October 2020 Downloads Database of British and Irish Hills Retrieved 8 October 2020 Hill Classification HillBaggingUK Retrieved 8 October 2020 P600 P600 m Peaks 600 m SWEIM British and Irish hills with at least 600 m of prominence also known as the Major Mountains of Britain amp Ireland a b c Trengrove Mark The 119 Major Mountains of Britain and Ireland Europeaklist Retrieved 19 April 2020 a b c The P600 Peaks Database of British and Irish Hills Retrieved 8 October 2020 Beinn Odhar Bheag hill data Retrieved 8 October 2020 a b c Background to the lists Database of British and Irish Hills 2 August 2018 Retrieved 16 April 2020 Dawson Alan Beyond Britain The Relative Hills of Britain rhb org uk Retrieved 16 April 2020 In Britain the main thresholds for relative height prominence listings are 150m 100m and 30m Worldwide the thresholds for prominence are larger typically 1500m 600m and 150m These may be referred to as Ultras or P1500s Majors or P600s and Marilyns or P150s The P500 Peaks a b c d The Marilyns HillBaggingUK 2018 Retrieved 16 April 2020 A Marilyn is a hill of any height with a drop of 150 metres nearly 500 ft or more on all sides So it is a hill which is relatively high compared to its surroundings a b c The HuMPS HillBaggingUK Retrieved 16 April 2020 The Humps Humps are hills of any height with a drop of 100 metres or more on all sides The name Hump stands for HUndred Metre Prominence By definition all Marilyns qualify as Humps but not vice versa A Subhump is a hill which just fails by up to 10m to qualify on the drop rule i e drop of 90m to 99m on all sides a b c The SIMMs HillBaggingUK Retrieved 16 April 2020 The Simms A Simm is a hill in England Wales or Scotland over 600m high with a drop of at least 30 metres all round Simm is an acronym for Six hundred Metre Mountain The Irish and Isle of Man Simms are also listed on this website A Sub Simm is a hill which just fails by up to 10m to qualify on the drop rule i e over 600m with 20 29m drop Clerk of the List October 2018 Compleators Scottish Mountaineering Club Retrieved 16 April 2020 The SMC hold a record of Munros Corbetts Grahams and Donalds compleators Dawson Alan 31 December 2017 The Marilyn Hall of Fame Marhof The Relative Hills of Britain rhb org uk Retrieved 16 April 2020 Dawson Alan 6 July 2020 Simm Hall of Fame The Relative Hills of Britain rhb org uk Retrieved 16 April 2020 A Simm is a hill in Britain that is at least 600 metres high and has a drop of at least 30 metres on all sides Only three people are known to have climbed all 2531 Simms but anyone with at least 2000 Simms is eligible for the Simm Hall of Fame As this is a distant target for many baggers the Simm Corridor is open to those who have climbed at least 1500 Simms a b The TuMPs HillBaggingUK Retrieved 16 April 2020 The Tumps A Tump is a hill in Scotland England Wales the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands which is separated from adjacent tops by a height difference of at least 30 metres on all sides The higher of the Tumps including all over 500m in height are included on other lists such as the Simms and Deweys For the lower Tumps the accuracy of the data on this site is not necessarily as dependable nor subject to as much scrutiny as those above 500m For lower lying hills it can be much more difficult to identify the actual summit so some grid references given may be more an indication of the general area of the summit There is also a greater likelihood of encountering access problems when trying to bag lower Tumps so please be considerate of land ownership and usage Marilyn Hall of Fame News Marhofn Relative Hills of Britain Retrieved 16 April 2020 a b c d e f Database of British and Irish Hills Retrieved 18 May 2015 a b The Munros HillBaggingUK Retrieved 21 April 2020 The Munros A Munro is a Scottish mountain over 3000 ft in height distinct and separate from its surrounding mountains Munro s Tables were originally compiled in 1891 by Sir Hugh Munro but are now revised and maintained by the Scottish Mountaineering Club A Munro Top is also a summit over 3000 ft but considered to be a subsidiary top of a Munro a b c Bearhop D A 1997 Munro s Tables Glasgow Scotland Scottish Mountaineering Club amp Trust ISBN 0 907521 53 3 Change Log www hill bagging co uk Database of British and Irish Hills 24 December 2020 Retrieved 7 December 2021 Magnificent munros 17 Scottish mountains to bag in your lifetime The Telegraph 13 April 2017 Archived from the original on 2022 01 12 Of the 282 200 are said to have a summit prominence of over 150 metres and are therefore known as real munros but that s for another day a b c Storer Ralph April 2016 50 Shades of Hillwalking Edinburgh Scotland Luath Press ISBN 978 1910021651 Metric Munros Peakbaggers Retrieved 9 January 2018 a b The Murdos HillBaggingUK A Murdo is a Scottish mountain over 3000ft 914 4m in height with a drop of at least 30 metres 98 feet on all sides All Murdos are also Munros or Munro Tops All Munros are Murdos but not all Munro Tops are Murdos A Submurdo is a hill that just fails by up to 10m to qualify on the drop rule i e over 3000ft with 20 29m drop Murdos are a subset of the Simms a b Dawson Alan 1995 The Murdos Cambuskenneth Stirling TACit Press ISBN 0 9522680 3 5 Archived from the original on 2006 06 15 Munros Scottish Mountaineering Club 2018 Murdos Database of British and Irish Hills 3 August 2018 Murdos Scottish hills at least 3000 feet in height with a drop of at least 30 metres on all sides All Murdos are Munros or Munro Tops but some Munro Tops fail to qualify as Murdos The list now has historic status a b c The Corbetts HillBaggingUK Retrieved 21 April 2020 A Corbett is a Scottish hill between 2500 and 2999 feet high with a drop of at least 500 feet 152 4m on all sides They are named after the list s original compiler J Rooke Corbett The Corbetts are a subset of the Marilyns Dawson Alan Hewitt Dave 1999 Corbett Tops and Corbetteers Cambuskenneth Stirling TACit Press ISBN 0 9534376 1 2 a b The Grahams HillBaggingUK Retrieved 21 April 2020 A Graham is a Scottish hill between 2000 and 2499 feet high with a drop of at least 150 metres on all sides The Grahams are also a subset of the Marilyns Dawson Alan Clements E D Clem Gordon James 2004 Graham Tops and Grahamists Cambuskenneth Stirling TACit Press ISBN 0 9534376 2 0 a b c Dawson Alan 1 August 2018 The Grahamists The Relative Hills of Britain rhb org uk Retrieved 28 April 2020 Grahamists are people who have climbed all the hills that were classed as Grahams at the time they recorded finishing the list Current number of Grahams 219 Current number of recorded Grahamists 170 The Grahams and the Donalds Glasgow Scotland Scottish Mountaineering Trust 2015 ISBN 978 1 907233 19 7 a b c The Donalds and Donald Tops HillBaggingUK Retrieved 21 April 2020 The Donalds are named after Percy Donald and his list of hills over 2000 feet in the Scottish Lowlands They are based on a complicated formula for determining separate hills and originally comprised 87 hills plus a number of other named Tops The New Donalds are an attempt to rationalize the qualifying criteria being hills in Central or Southern Scotland at least 2000 feet high 610m with a drop of at least 30 metres 98 feet all round All New Donalds are either a Donald or a Donald Top but some of the Donald Tops do not qualify as New Donalds a b c Donalds Scottish Mountaineering Club 2018 Retrieved 17 April 2020 There are currently 89 Donald Hills and a further 51 Donald Tops A complete round of The Donalds should include all 140 summits Percy Donald s original Tables are seen as a complete entity unlike the Munros Corbetts and Grahams Alan Dawson May 1995 Review The Grahams and the New Donalds The Relative Hills of Britain rhb org uk The New Donalds HillBaggingUK 2018 Retrieved 17 April 2020 The New Donalds are an attempt to rationalize the qualifying criteria being hills in Central or Southern Scotland at least 2000 feet high 610m with a drop of at least 30 metres 98 feet all round All New Donalds are either a Donald or a Donald Top but some of the Donald Tops do not qualify as New Donalds The Hughs Luath Press Retrieved 17 September 2021 The Hughs Scotland s Best Wee Hills Under 2 000 Feet by Andrew Dempster Undiscovered Scotland Book Review www undiscoveredscotland co uk Retrieved 17 September 2021 Dempster Andrew 2015 The Hughs Scotland s best wee hills under 2 000 feet Volume 1 The Mainland Luath Press ISBN 978 1 910324 67 7 Scottish HUGHS South amp East Peakery Retrieved 17 September 2021 HUGH Bagging List HUGHs GPS Waypoints www haroldstreet org uk Retrieved 17 September 2021 a b The Furths HillBaggingUK Retrieved 21 April 2020 A Furth is a 3000 ft peak of the British Isles furth of Scotland Traditionally the Furths only include hills with a drop of at least 30 metres 98 feet on all sides Furth Completists Furthists List Final Furths and Furthists Retrieved 26 July 2016 The Hewitts HillBaggingUK Retrieved 21 April 2020 A Hewitt is a Hill in England Wales or Ireland over Two Thousand feet high 610m with a drop of at least 30 metres 98 feet all round The Hewitts of England and Wales are therefore a subset of the Nuttalls A Subhewitt is a hill which just fails by up to 10m to qualify on the drop rule i e over 610m with 20 29m drop Note that the subHewitts formerly included hills between 600m and 610m but these are now simply classified as Deweys a b c d Dawson Alan 1997 The Hewitts and Marilyns of England Cambuskenneth Stirling TACit Press ISBN 0 9522680 7 8 Archived from the original on 2000 09 29 Dawson Alan 1997 The Hewitts and Marilyns of Wales Cambuskenneth Stirling TACit Press ISBN 0 9522680 6 X Archived from the original on 2006 12 05 The Hewitts The 2000 foot summits of England and Wales WalkingHighlands 2018 Retrieved 17 April 2020 The most satisfactory recent list in our opinion was originally compiled by Alan Dawson in his book the Relative Hills of Britain using a minimum reascent figure of 30 metres this gives 317 summits in England and Wales hills which Dawson originally named the Sweats Summits Wales and England Above Two thousand Clements E D Clem 1998 The Hewitts and Marilyns of Ireland Cambuskenneth Stirling TACit Press ISBN 0 9522680 8 6 Chris Crocker Database Notes Hewitts Database of British and Irish Hills In June 2010 Dawson created the Simms Six hundred Metre Mountains originally called Sims by combining the Murdos Corbett Tops Graham Tops and Hewitts and lowering the height threshold to 600m Hewitts are Hills in England Wales and Ireland at least 2000 feet high with a drop of at least 30 metres on all sides Although subsumed into the Simms the list has been retained by its author a b c The Nuttals HillBaggingUK Retrieved 21 April 2020 The definition of a Nuttall is any summit of 2000ft 610m or more which rises above its surroundings on all sides by at least 50ft 15m The Nuttalls list includes Pillar Rock which cannot be ascended without rock climbing equipment a b c Nuttall John Nuttall Anne 2009 The Mountains of England amp Wales Volume 1 Wales 3rd ed Milnthorpe Cicerone Press ISBN 978 1852845940 Nuttall John Nuttall Anne Changes The Mountains of England and Wales Retrieved 10 August 2018 Lake District hill Miller Moss reclassified as a mountain BBC News 10 August 2018 Retrieved 10 August 2018 Nuttall John Nuttall Anne Completers The Mountains of England and Wales Retrieved 10 August 2018 a b c Wainwrights and Wainwright Outlying Fells HillBaggingUK 2018 Retrieved 17 April 2020 The Wainwrights The Wainwrights are a list of hills appearing in the seven volumes of Alfred Wainwright s Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells the list is subjective some of the hills are not summits at all just prominent points at the end of a ridge or spur from a higher mountain The Wainwright Outlying Fells Wainwright produced an additional volume entitled The Outlying Fells of Lakelands a b Wainwright Alfred 1992 Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells Book One The Eastern Fells London England White Lion Publishing ISBN 978 0718140007 a b c The Birketts HillBaggingUK 2018 Retrieved 17 April 2020 The Birketts are all the Lake District hills over 1 000ft as listed in Bill Birkett s Complete Lakeland Fells The Birketts list includes Pillar Rock which cannot be ascended without rock climbing equipment Pillar Rock HillBaggingUK Retrieved 17 April 2020 Pillar Rock qualifying as a separate summit to Pillar Lake District itself in the Nuttalls and other lists the Birketts is the bane of summit baggers everywhere Wainwright says that to walkers Pillar Rock is positively out of bounds Don t even try to get a foothold on it It s graded as a moderate rock climb a b Birketts Database of British and Irish Hills 2018 Retrieved 17 April 2020 Birkett Bill 1994 Complete Lakeland Fells England HarperCollins Premier Books ISBN 0583 32209 3 a b Synge Tim March 1995 The Lakeland Summits A Survey of the Fells of the Lake District National Park England Sigma Press ISBN 978 1850584469 a b c d e f Background to the lists Database of British and Irish Hills Retrieved 16 October 2018 The Synges HillBaggingUK Retrieved 8 November 2018 The Synges are Lake District hills listed in The Lakeland Summits Survey of the Fells of the Lake District National Park by Timothy Synge a b c d Other Lists HillBaggingUK Retrieved 8 November 2018 Mweelrea Maol Reidh HillBaggingUK Retrieved 25 April 2020 a b The Vandeleur Lynams HillBaggingUK Retrieved 21 April 2020 A Vandeleur Lynam is a hill in Ireland at least 600 metres high with a drop of at least 15 metres on all sides In 1952 Joss Lynam made a list of 2 000ft summits with 50ft drop with assistance from Rev CRP Vandeleur Joss Lynam updated a version of this list and published it in a reprint of Mountaineering in Ireland by Claude Wall printed in 1976 The metricised equivalent was published in 1997 Lynam was actively involved with the list until 2002 thereafter assisting MountainViews with subsequent revisions until his death in 2011 a b c d e Stewart Simon 2013 A Guide to Ireland s Mountain Summits The Vandeleur Lynams amp the Arderins Cork Collins Books ISBN 978 1848891647 a b c The Vandeleur Lynams HillBaggingUK Stewart Simon Vandeleur Lynams Irish mountains of 600 m with a prominence of 15m MountainViews ie Retrieved 17 April 2020 a b The Arderins HillBaggingUK Retrieved 21 April 2020 An Arderin is a hill in Ireland of 500m or over with a drop of at least 30m on all sides This list was drawn up in 2002 by the MountainViews publisher from an early listing of the MyrddynDeweys with those hills from the Vandeleur Lynams which meet the higher drop criterion The list name created in 2009 comes from the 527m hill which is the County Top for both Laois and Offaly and means from the Irish Height of Ireland The Arderins HillBaggingUK Retrieved 17 April 2020 Stewart Simon October 2018 Arderins Irish mountains of 500 m with a prominence of 30m MountainViews ie Retrieved 17 April 2020 Stewart Simon 2018 Arderins Arderin Begs Irish mountains of 500 m with a prominence of 15 m MountainViews ie Retrieved 17 April 2020 Listing selection All summits 531 in list Arderins Arderin Begs Stewart Simon 2018 Credits and Acknowledgements Lists of the summits islands and coastal features for Ireland Mountainviews ie Retrieved 16 April 2020 The Hundred Highest list includes summits with a prominence at a minimum of 100 m and has been introduced to give a height based list not too long with a spread of locations for Ireland 10 of the Highest Mountains to Climb in Ireland Outsider ie 2018 Retrieved 17 April 2020 We ve compiled a list of the 10 highest mountains in Ireland for you to get your teeth into The Complete Guide to Exploring Ireland s Mountains Outsider ie 2018 Retrieved 17 April 2020 Top 50 highest peaks in Ireland MountainViews ie Hill Classification HillBaggingUK Retrieved 21 April 2020 Ca Carn 400 499m 30m As classified on the Mountain Views website Stewart Simon Carns MountainViews ie Retrieved 16 October 2018 Hill Classification HillBaggingUK Retrieved 21 April 2020 Bin Binnion 0 400m 100m As classified on the Mountain Views website Stewart Simon Binnions MountainViews ie Retrieved 16 October 2018 Stewart Simon Binnion Hill MountainViews ie Retrieved 16 October 2018 WASHIS The Highest Hills in Wales over 600m Mud and Routes Retrieved 27 September 2021 Hill Classification HillBaggingUK Retrieved 21 April 2020 County Tops CoH Historic County Top pre 1974 CoA Administrative County Top 1974 to mid 1990s CoU Current County UA Top Dewey Michael 1995 Mountain Tables Tables of the mountain and hill summits of England and Wales London England Constable amp Co Ltd ISBN 978 0094745209 The Deweys HillBaggingUK The Deweys A Dewey is a mountain or hill in England Wales or the Isle of Man that exceeds 500 metres in height but is below 610 metres 2000ft in altitude it must be separated from adjacent tops by a height difference of at least 30 metres on all sides The definition is similar to the Hewitts and Simms except that Hewitts must be above 2000ft and Simms above 600m The Deweys are named after the list s compiler Michael Dewey the list appearing as one of the chapters in his book Mountain Tables a b The Donald Deweys HillBaggingUK Retrieved 17 April 2020 A Donald Dewey is a hill in the Scottish Lowlands between 500m and 609m high with a drop of at least 30m on all sides There are 248 Donald Deweys The Deweys were extended to Ireland the Myrddyn Deweys by Michael Dewey and Myrddyn Phillips in 2000 and to the Scottish Lowlands Donald Deweys by David Purchase in 2001 a b Highland Fives HillBaggingUK Retrieved 9 October 2020 A Highland Five is a hill in the Scottish Highlands between 500m and 609m high with a drop of at least 30m on all sides There are 774 Highland Fives Hitherto 500m hills in the Scottish Highlands have not had a separate identity but a complete listing of Scottish 500m hills was compiled by Rob Woodall using data from Tony Payne Clem Clements John Kirk and others and uploaded to the rhb group 2003 revised 2006 The Database of British and Irish Hills a b The 500 Metre Tops of Ireland Retrieved 9 October 2020 Here come the Dodds maybe www rhb org uk pubs Database Notes www hills database co uk The Relative Hills Society www rhsoc uk Chronology of changes to the Dodds Hardy Ian MVO 2010 The Hardys The UK s High Points 3rd Edition Potters Bar Hertfordshire Ian Hardy ISBN 978 0 9565533 3 1 internet version http www thehardys org ISBN 978 0 9565533 5 5 DVD version Hardys Hill List and GPS Waypoints at www haroldstreet org uk Retrieved 6 Jan 2017 List of Bridges HillBaggingUK Retrieved 16 October 2018 Not titled but linked from Bridges in HillBagging s Other lists page a b Bridge George April 1973 Mountains of England and Wales Tables of the 2000ft Summits Reading England West Col Productions ISBN 978 0901516688 List of Buxton Lewis summits HillBaggingUK Retrieved 16 October 2018 Linked from Buxton Lewis in Hill Bagging s Other lists page a b Buxton Chris Lewis Gwyn August 1986 Mountain Summits of England and Wales Red Dial Publications ISBN 978 0951172308 The Clems www hill bagging co uk Retrieved 4 August 2020 a b History of changes to the Yeamans and Clems www hills database co uk Retrieved 4 August 2020 a b Richards Mark September 2013 The Lakeland Fellranger Collection England Cicerone Press ISBN 978 1852847487 The Fellrangers HillBaggingUK Retrieved 8 November 2018 The Fellrangers are Lake District hills listed in the Lakeland Fellranger guides by Mark Richards Fellranger additional fells Cicerone Press Archived from the original on 8 July 2016 Retrieved 8 February 2021 Lake District fells hiking guides Cicerone Press Retrieved 8 February 2021 The Yeamans www hill bagging co uk Retrieved 4 August 2020 Further reading Edit Dawson Alan 1992 The Relative Hills of Britain Milnthorpe Cumbria Cicerone Press ISBN 978 1852840686 Jackson Mark 2009 More Relative Hills of Britain PDF Database of British and Irish HIlls Retrieved 15 April 2020 External links EditHill Bagging UK amp Ireland the searchable interface for the DoBIH MountainViews Irish Online Mountain Database the searchable database for the MountainViews The Relative Hills of Britain a website dedicated to mountain and hill classification County tops on Wikishire This article includes a geography related list of lists Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles amp oldid 1125723928 Database of British and Irish Hills, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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