Welsh Hill Lists & GPS Waypoints

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Ordnance Survey Triangulation Pillars

GPS Waypoints of all UK Ordnance Survey Trig. Points


Welsh 3000s

The famous Welsh 3000 ft Mountains; Snowdon / Yr Wyddfa (1,085 m), Garnedd Ugain / Crib y Ddysgl (1,065 m), Crib Goch (923 m), Elidir Fawr (924 m), Y Garn (947 m), Glyder Fawr (999 m), Glyder Fach (994 m), Tryfan (915 m), Pen yr Ole Wen (978 m), Carnedd Dafydd (1,044 m), Carnedd Llewelyn (1,064 m), Yr Elen (962 m), Foel Grach (976 m), Garnedd Uchaf (926 m), Foel-fras (942 m). aka the Welsh Munros


Marilyns

Hills & Mountains of any height with a drop of at least 150 metres on all sides. The geographical area includes the Isle of Man and the islands of St Kilda. (N.B. includes twin peak marilyns)


Hewitts

Hills of England and Wales & Ireland over Two Thousand feet (with at least 30 metre drop on all sides).


Trail 100

Trail's Top 100 Hills; a list of 100 hills published in Trail Magazine in 2007 which has become popularised by becoming the objective of the WaterAid Trail 100 charity challenge.


HuMPs

Hills of any height with a drop of at least 100 metres or more on all sides. The name HuMP stands for Hundred Metre Prominence. (All Marylins are HuMPs) The original source for the HuMPs list was Dr Eric Yeaman's "Handbook of the Scottish Hills", published by Wafaida in 1989. Clem Clements applied Yeaman's original criteria to England and Wales, and christened the results "Yeomans".


Nuttalls

Hills & Mountains list maintained by John and Anne Nuttall and detailed in 'The Mountains of England and Wales' published by Cicerone Press. Includes all the Hewitts


Deweys

Hills in England, Wales and the Isle of Man at least 500m high with a drop of at least 30m on all sides. The list was published with no upper bound on height, but in practice the name is applied to hills below 610m (2000ft) high, as hills over 610m are usually called Hewitts.


Sub-Hewitts

Hills falling short of being Hewitts on drop by 10m or less.


Historic County tops

The highest point within (or sometimes on) the boundary of each county. Based on the traditional list of counties from which people usually take their local cultural identity. Note that these were never abolished, they just ceased to have administrative function.


Welsh "Corbetts"

Welsh Marilyns (i.e. a drop of at least 150m) with heights between 762m & 913m


Sub-Marilyns

hills that narrowly fall short of meeting the Marilyn list's classification threshold


Current County and Unitary Authority tops

The highest point within (or sometimes on) the boundary of each county. Based on the list of Counties, Metropolitan Districts and Unitary Authorities that came into existence in the 1990s, and are still changing.


Buxton and Lewis

From the Buxton & Lewis (1986) historical list of the 2000-foot summits of England and Wales. The list was defined by the original publication and is not subject to revision.


Administrative County tops

The highest point within (or sometimes on) the boundary of each county. Based on the redrawn administrative boundaries and introduction of Metropolitan Counties in the mid 1970s. These began to be abolished in the 1990s.


Bridge's 2000ft Hills

An historical list of 2000-foot summits of England and Wales compiled by Bridge (1973). The list was defined by the original publication and is not subject to revision.


SiMS

SiMS: Six-hundred Metre Summits (600m+/P30m) a list of British 600m hills with at least 30 meters of prominence. For more details see http://www.rhb.org.uk/sims/


Furth Munros

The Furths comprise summits which are generally recognised as being the 3000ft peaks of the British Isles 'furth' of Scotland (furth meaning outside). These are the equivalent of the 'Munros' of England, Ireland and Wales.


Hills between 490 & 499m

Hills between 490 and 499m with 30m drop.
(sorry no equivalent data for Ireland yet)


Major Mountains of the UK (P600m )

The P600m Peaks - a list of British and Irish hills with at least 600m of prominence. For more information, visit Mark Trengove's Europeaklist website and see the PDF at the bottom of the page.


P500m Prominent Peaks

The P500m Peaks - a list of British and Irish hills with at least 500m of prominence. For more details see Jim Bloomer and Roddy Urquhart's website


Really Big Hills of UK (P609m)

The P609m Peaks - a list of British and Irish hills with at least 2000 feet of prominence. For more details see http://sucs.org/~baronson/bagging/


Welsh TUMPs P30m

TUMPs or P30s are hills of any height with a drop of at least 30 metres or more on all sides. The name TUMP stands for Thirty & Upward Metres Prominence.


Marilyn Twin Peaks

A Marilyn Twin Peak is a summit of equal height to another Marilyn where the drop between the two is less than 150m.


Sub-HuMPs

Hills falling short of being HuMPs on drop by 10m or less.


Sub-490-499m hills

Hills falling short of being "490-499m hills" on drop by 10m or less.


HuMP Twin Peaks

A Twin HuMP is defined as a summit of equal height to another HuMP where the drop between the two summits is at least 30m but less than 100m.


Other Hills

Some miscellanious hills not calssified in any of the other groupings here - often due to deletion or demotion from a previous list.


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