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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.


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.


Clems 

After the publication of Dr Eric Yeaman's Handbook of the Scottish Hills (Wafaida, 1989), E.D. 'Clem' Clements set out to extend Yeaman's criteria to England and Wales. Clem's original handwritten list, completed in the early 1990s, comprised 1284 hills.

The process of verifying and digitising this handwritten document took many years and involved numerous contributors, notably Rob Woodall, Myrddyn Phillips, Gary Honey, Gordon Adshead and Iain Cameron; Clem made some additions to the list in 2004 bringing the total to 1298 hills, and this list later formed the basis for later HuMP research.

Clem himself referred to hills on his list as 'Yeomans', but here they have been renamed 'Clems' in his honour by way of remembering the man and recognising his achievement.


Clwydian Hills 

List of all the summits from any recognised list within The Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. In addition topographically: greater than 600m height greater than P10; between 300 and 599.9m height greater than P15; less than 300m height greater than P20. Thanks to Aled Williams and Myrddyn Phillips for use of their LIDAR data analysis and Trimble GeoXH 6000 survey results for additional hills which contribute to this list.


Corbett Twenty Fives 

first published in The Rucksack Club Journal 1911 (based on Bartholomew Map), 1912 update , 1929 (based on OS 1 inch map and 50 foot contours) and 1933 update. The first ever bagging list for England and Wales.


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.


Dewey's Notable Tops 

The "Notable Hill Tops of England and Wales" were included in the Mountain Tables by Michael Dewey published 1995 by Constable, along with his better-known 500m hill list. The Notables are all in England and Wales, generally outside the main high mountain/moor areas.
(52 of the hills in this list are in addition to those hills sourced from the DoBIH, the other 280 link to the DoBIH Hill/Tump details.)


Deweys 

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. Deweys extend the England and Wales Hewitts below 2,000 feet, but above 500 metres.


Dochartys 

A Selection of some 900 British and Irish Mountain Tops (Part I Lists A & B total of 960) and a Selection of 1,000 Tops under 2,500 feet (Part II List C total of 1,022) by William McKnight Docharty 1954 and 1962.
The lists are defined by the original publications and is not subject to revision.
Each of the four constituents of the British Isles are included: Scotland 1,395 summits, Ireland 243, Wales 153 and England 191, totalling 1,982. (two summits in the Isle of Man included within England’s numbers).
Docharty data courtesy of Ronnie Bowron


Dodds

The Dodds (hills in Scotland, Wales and England of height 500-599.9m with at least 30m of drop) have been added. The list was originally proposed in 2014 as a metric alternative to the British 500m lists and has been adopted by the Relative Hills Society


Double SubFours/Pedwarau

The list of English and Welsh hills which don't make "Four/Pedwar" status on two counts as they are between 20m and 29.9m of prominence AND height between 390m and 399.9m.
Further details at Mapping Mountains Publications


Elmslies

first published in The Journal of the Fell and Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District 1933 in an article “The Two Thousand Footers of England” by W T Elmslie. The first attempt at a 2,000 foot bagging list for England and excludes 42 non summits from the original list of 347 points. The list was defined by the original publication and is not subject to revision.


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.


Gillhams

Mountains of Snowdonia from John Gillham's A Pictorial Guide to the Mountains of Snowdonia


Hewitts

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


High Hills of Britain

A list of 1035 british hills published in a book by the renowned Alan Dawson.


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.


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.


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 Marilyns 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".


The Huws

100 great Welsh hills under 2,000ft

Data courtesy of Alex Cameron, John Gillham, Myrddyn Phillips, Adrian Rayner, Mark Trengove and Rob Woodall.


Island Summits

where height and prominence are the same


Jones's 2,000's of Wales

The Welsh 2000ft Summits by Robert Jones 1993.
The list was defined by the original publication and is not subject to revision.


Lighthouses

These lighthouse are those in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands as listed in The British Lighthouse Trail by Sarah Kerr. The definition used for the purposes of the list is: A fixed structure that was built to exhibit a light for the purpose of aiding maritime navigation and allows access for at least one person inside any part of it.


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.


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.


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. twin peak marilyns are not included here)


Marsh

The 600-metre summits of England & Wales with a minimum drop of 30 metres from the four books by Terry Marsh: The Mountains of Wales (1985), The Lakes Mountains Vol 1 and 2 (1987) and The Pennine Mountains (1989) all published by Hodder & Stoughton. The list was defined by the original publication and is not subject to revision.


Moss 2,000's of England and Wales

A list by Richard Moss, son of Edward (Ted) Moss resulting in the largest list of English and Welsh mountains over 2,000 feet. The list is based on those of FHF Simpson (1937, Wayfarers' Journal, 5, 18-24) and Edward (Ted) Moss (1940, RCJ, IX, 239-243; 1952, RCJ, XII, 67-70; 1954, RCJ, XII, 276). It includes all summits in:

  • "The Mountains of England and Wales" by George Bridge, 1973;
  • "The Mountains of England and Wales". Volume 1 Wales (1989) and Volume 2 England (1990) by John and Anne Nuttall;
  • "The Mountain Summits of England and Wales" by Chris Buxton and Gwyn Lewis, 1986;
  • "The Relative Hills of Britain" by Alan Dawson, 1992;
  • "English Mountain Summits" by Nick Wright, 1974.
  • "Mountain Tables" by Michael Dewey, 1995.
plus additional summits identified by both Ted and Richard Moss in their own research.

Published is the Rucksack Club Journal in 2007 All Those Two-Thousands (2007, RCJ, XXV (1) Issue 96, 111-117) and available online at www.cantab.net/users/remus/ and www.cantab.net/users/remus/usernote.html


Moss's

A list of 404 two thousand foot summits in England & Wales (excluding the English Lake District - see Simpson list) published in four articles in the Rucksack Club Journal by Edward ("Ted") Moss, between 1939 & 1954.
The list was defined by the original publications and is not subject to revision.


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


Ordnance Survey Triangulation Pillars

GPS Waypoints of all UK Ordnance Survey Trig. Points


P30 TUMPs

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.


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/


The Separate Mountains 

A summit needs to be over 600m height and have 90, 100, 120 or 150m of drop to qualify, depending on how dissected an area is. Dissectedness is calculated by counting the number of segments each hill group is split into by the 400m contour and dividing this by the number of 10km grid squares it covers. The list was originally compiled in 1974 from OS 1 inch maps, metricated from 1976-82 as second series metric maps came out, then adjusted in 2023 using data from the DoBIH.

List compiled and maintained by Iain Thow


SimmBeags

hills in Britain and Ireland 600m or higher with drop between 15m and 19.9m This list was originally compiled by Ken Whyte, and is now maintained by Bernie Hughes.
Thanks to https://MountainViews.ie/ for permission to include their data.


SiMMs

SiMMs: Six-hundred Metre Mountains; originally called Sims (600m+/P30m) a list of British 600m hills with at least 30 meters of prominence. For more details see http://www.rhb.org.uk/simms/


Sub-Dochartys

Sub Docharty - Docharty's objective was to list all points on the 1 inch O.S. Maps with a minimum requirement for a 'Top' being one 50-foot contour, for Ireland the minimum was one 100-foot contour. However Docharty decided that some of the heights marked on the map, which on being visited did not appear to have sufficient individuality to qualify as 'Tops' so these were included under a Remarks column in respect of Scotland and Ireland and a fifth column in respect of Wales and England for Part 1 and under a Remarks column for Part 2. None of these added through to Docharty’s Summary Tables.
Also included within subs are 'tops' or eminences unrecorded on the maps but identified by Docharty while on excursion.
The lists are defined by the original publications and is not subject to revision.
Each of the four constituents of the British Isles are included: Scotland 533 summits, Ireland 25, Wales 41 and England 89, totalling 688.
Sub-Docharty data courtesy of Ronnie Bowron


Sub-Fours/Pedwarau

The list of English and Welsh hills which don't quite make "Four/Pedwar" status and are either: height between 400m and 499.9m, and 20m to 29.9m of prominence; or of height between 390m and 399.9m, and 30m of prominence.
Further details at Mapping Mountains Publications


Sub-Hewitts

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


Sub-HuMPs

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


Sub-Marilyns

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


Sub-Marsh

133 summits which are over 600 metres but fail the 30 metre drop from the four books by Terry Marsh: The Mountains of Wales (1985), The Lakes Mountains Vol 1 and 2 (1987) and The Pennine Mountains (1989) all published by Hodder & Stoughton. The list was defined by the original publication and is not subject to revision.


Sub-Nuttalls

Hills falling short of being Nuttalls on drop between 10m and 14.99m. Includes 41 of the 59 Deleted Nuttalls – the remainder are sub P10. This is an objective list with criterion and therefore subject to change as additional surveying data becomes available. List author Ronnie Bowron. Thanks to Joe Nuttall for use of his JNSA data analysis as well as Aled Williams and Myrddyn Phillips for use of their LIDAR data analysis and Trimble GeoXH 6000 survey results from which this list is compiled. Thanks to John & Anne Nuttall for allowing a Sub Nuttall listing.


Sub-SIMs

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


Sub-TuMPs

SubTumps - hills in Britain & Ireland with 20m-29.9m prominence irrespective of height. The list has been compiled by Bernie Hughes, and includes data originated by Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams. Source lists available at The Fours. Thanks also to https://MountainViews.ie/ for permission to include data from their lists.


The Sub-Welsh P15s

taking in all Welsh hills with 14m or more and below 15m of drop. Data courtesy of Myrddyn Phillips.
Further details at Mapping Mountains Publications


Supersummits

Hills over 300m, and at least 15km from the nearest higher ground. The Supersummits are from an article 'Backyard Everests' by Bernard Beal, published in The Great Outdoors (May 1997 issue of TGO). Hensbarrow Beacon has been supplanted by the adjacent landscaped spoil mound, and Beacon Hill is named Trelleck Hill on Beal's original list.


The Top 500 Summits

The Top 500 Summits are the highest 500 mountains in Britain and Ireland with a drop of at least 500 feet on all sides. As published by Barry Smith in "The Top 500 Summits: A Lifetime of Hillwalking"


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.


TumpBeags

hills in Britain & Ireland with 15m-19.9m prominence irrespective of height. The list has been compiled by Bernie Hughes, and includes data originated by Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams. Source lists available at The Welsh P15s, The Fours and The Welsh Highlands - Uchafion Cymru. Thanks also to https://MountainViews.ie/ for permssion to include data from their Arderin Begs list.


Welsh "Corbetts"

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


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).
Also known as the "Welsh Munros".


The Welsh P15s

All Welsh Hills with 15m minimum drop, irrespective of their height.
Further details at Mapping Mountains
Data courtesy of Myrddyn Phillips.


Y Pedwarau

A 'Pedwar' is a hill in Wales between the heights of 400 metres and 499 metres that has a minimum drop of 30 metres. As there are some 447 such hills, and they are over 400 metres high, it seems fitting to name them 'Y Pedwarau' , as the Welsh word 'Pedwar' translates as 'Four'.
Further details at Mapping Mountains


YHA

List of YHA Hostels in England & Wales


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