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The mountains and hills of the British Isles^[a] are categorised into lists based on elevation (or "height"), prominence (or "relative height", or "drop"), and other criteria (e.g. isolation). These lists are used for peak bagging, whereby hillwalkers attempt to reach all the summits on a list, the oldest and best-known, being the 282 § Munros in Scotland, which amongst other criteria, must be above 3,000 feet (914.4 m).

Scafell Pike in the Lake District in Cumbria. Scafell Pike is the highest mountain in England, and 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 Marilyn, 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 600 m, is considered necessary to be a "mountain" in the British Isles, and apart from the Munros (who favour isolation), all lists require a prominence of at least 15 metres (49.21 ft). A prominence of between 15–30 metres (49.21–98.43 ft) (e.g. some § Nuttalls and § Vandeleur-Lynams), does not meet the UIAA definition of an "independent" peak. Most lists consider a prominence between 30–150 metres (98.43–492.1 ft) as a "top", and not a mountain (e.g. many § Hewitts and § Simms). A popular designation are the § Marilyns, with a prominence above 150 metres (492.1 ft). Prominences above 600 metres (1,969 ft), are the § P600 (the "Majors"), the international classification of a "major" mountain.

General concepts

Elevation

There is no worldwide consensus on the definition of "mountain", but in Great Britain and Ireland it is often taken to be any summit at least 2,000 feet (or 610 metres) high (also called elevation).^{[2][3][4][5][6]} The UK government defines 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 2016 and confirmed to be almost exactly 2,000 ft, 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]

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  List of mountains of the British Isles by height, a ranking by height and prominence on the Simms classification (height over 600m, prominence over 30 m)


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  List of Marilyns in the British Isles, a ranking by height and prominence on the Marilyn classification (any height, prominence over 150 m)


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  List of P600 mountains in the British Isles, a ranking by height and prominence on the P600 classification (any height, prominence over 600 m)

Prominence

In addition, all British Isles definitions, with the exception of definitions that rely on § Isolation, include a minimum topographical prominence requirement (also called relative height, or drop, or re-ascent, between neighbouring peaks), which is typically 30–600 m (98–1,969 ft).^[4] The lowest minimum prominence is 15 metres (49.21 ft), the Nuttalls and Vandeleur-Lynams, however most definitions do not consider prominences below 30 metres (98.43 ft). Many definitions use the term Tops to refer to the sub-class of peaks that do not meet a 150 metres (492.1 ft) prominence threshold for the main definition, but have a prominence of between 30–150 metres (98.43–492.1 ft). Some definitions ignore height completely and just focus purely on prominence (e.g. P600s, Marilyns, and HuMPs).

Prominence requirements are even strongly debated regarding UIAA classification of major Himalayan mountains.^[9][10] In 1994, regarding classification of summits, the UIAA stated that for a "peak" to be independent (e.g. not a sub-peak of a mountain), it needed a prominence over 30 m, and in addition, a "mountain" had to have a prominence over 300 m.^[11]

Unlike the single measurement of elevation, prominence requires the detailed measurement of all contours around the peak, and is therefore subject to change and revision over time, and thus tables based on prominence are subject to revision.^[12] Some definitions use an imperial measurement for height, but a metric measurement for the topological prominence (e.g. Murdos, Hewitts and Nuttals).

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  List of mountains of the British Isles by height, a ranking by height and prominence on the Simms classification (height over 600m, prominence over 30 m)


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  List of Marilyns in the British Isles, a ranking by height and prominence on the Marilyn classification (any height, prominence over 150 m)


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  List of P600 mountains in the British Isles, a ranking by height and prominence on the P600 classification (any height, prominence over 600 m)

Isolation

No definition of a British Isles mountain or hill uses an explicit quantitative metric of topographic isolation (e.g. distance to the next point of equal height), however, the concept of isolation is embedded in the qualitative definition of a Scottish Munro, from the Scottish Mountaineering Club requirement of "sufficient separation" (instead of prominence).^[13]

Cultural

Mountains in Scotland are frequently referred to as "hills" no matter what their height, as reflected in names such as the Cuillin Hills and the Torridon Hills.

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".^[14][15][16] It is now maintained by a team of eight 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).^[17] 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".^[18]

DoBIH is available as a downloadable database^[15] or in an online version under the title Hill Bagging.^[b][20] As of August 2018^[update] the database included 20,859 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, Murdos, Deweys, Donald Deweys, Highland Fives, Wainwrights, Birketts, Synges, Fellrangers, County tops, SIBs (Significant Islands of Britain), Dillons, Arderins, Vandeleur-Lynams, Myrddyn Deweys, Carns and Binnions, "with subs and deletions".^[21]

Since 2012, the DoBIH has a data-sharing agreement with the Irish online database of mountains and hills, called MountainViews.^[14]

British Isles

P600 (the "Majors")

(any height, prominence 600 m)

Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the British Isles, which also has the greatest topographic prominence.

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. The list was also developed by Alan Dawson in 2004 (creator of the Marilyn list), and refined in 2004 and 2006.^[22] Dawson initially used a 2,000 ft metric (or 610 m, the P610s), and called his list the "Majors", as it is one of the shortest of the noted lists of mountains in the British Islands, and one of the most testing requirements. The term "Major" is often used by others when listing the P600 peaks.^[23][24][25] In 2006, 93 P600s were identified in Great Britain: 82 in Scotland, 4 in England and 7 in Wales; together with 1 in Northern Ireland, 1 on the Isle of Man, and 24 P600s in the Republic of Ireland, which brought the total number of P600 mountains in the British Isles to 119.^[22] However, since 2006, Welsh peak Moel Siabod's prominence was recalculated to 600 metres, and the list of P600s was expanded to 120.^[26][27]

The British Isle P600s, contain 54 of the 282 Scottish Munros, and 10 of the 34 Non-Scottish Munros, which are also 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 (e.g. "Super-Majors").

• List of P600 mountains in the British Isles

P600 is an important international mountain classification criterion, along with Ultras or P1500, 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, prominence above 500 metres (1,640 feet).^[30]

Marilyns

(any height, prominence 150 m)

Pillar, an English Marilyn

The Marilyns are mountains and hills in the British Isles that have a topographical prominence of at least 150 metres (490 feet), regardless of absolute height or other merits. As at October 2018, there were 1,552 Marilyns in Great Britain:^[31] 1,219 in Scotland, 175 in England, and 158 in Wales (Black Mountain, on the England-Wales border, is counted as being in Wales). There are 454 Marilyns in Ireland (389 in the Republic of Ireland and 66 in Northern Ireland), and 5 on the Isle of Man, bringing the total for the British Isles to 2,011. The list was first compiled in 1992 by Alan Dawson.^[32][29] The name was coined as an ironic contrast to the designation Munro, which is homophonous with (Marilyn) Monroe. The Marilyns are one of the most popular lists for peak baggers.

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  List of Marilyns in the British Isles
  
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    List of Marilyns in Scotland, detailed lists by sections in Scotland
  
  

HuMPs

(any height, prominence 100 m)

The Marilyns were expanded in 2007 by the HuMPs (Hundred and upwards Metre Prominence) which reduces the prominence requirement to 100 m (330 ft). Therefore, all British Isles Marilyns are British Isles HuMPS (but not vice versa).^[33] The list was compiled by Mark Jackson from a number of sources and published online in 2010 in More Relative Hills of Britain.^[18] There are 2,986 HuMPs in the British Isles: 2,168 in Scotland, 833 in Ireland, 444 in England, 366 in Wales and 11 in the Channel Islands.^[33]

Simms

(height 600 m, prominence 30 m)

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). The word comes from Six-hundred Metre Mountain.^[34] There are currently 2,754 recorded Simms in the British Isles, including 2,188 Scottish Simms, 192 English Simms, 149 Welsh Simms, 1 Isle of Man Simm, and 224 Irish Simms.^[c][34] 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".^[29] As of October 2018^[update], 6,414 people had registered themselves as having climbed all 282 Scottish Munros,^[35] over 270 people had registeted climbing all 1,552 Marilyns of Great Britain,^[36] while only 2 people had registered completion of the 2,529 Simms of Great Britain, and no one had yet declared completion of all 2,754 Simms of the British Isles.^[37]

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  List of mountains of the British Isles by height, a ranking by height and prominence on the Simms classification (height over 600m, prominence over 30 m)

TuMPs

(any height, prominence 30 m)

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).^[38] By definition, all Murdos, Corbett Tops, Graham Tops, Hewitts and Deweys are also TuMPs. There are 17,044 TuMPs;^[39] 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.^[31]

Scotland only

Munros

(height 3,000 ft, other SMC criteria)

Ben Hope, in the Flow Country, is the most northerly Munro

The Munros are mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet (914.4 m). The list was originally compiled by Sir Hugh Munro in 1891, and is modified from time to time by the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC).^[40] 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. There are 282 Munros, and 227 further Munro Tops, totalling 509 summits, all of them in the Scottish Highlands.

Real Munro is used to describe Munros with a prominence over 150 metres (490 ft) (the Marilyn prominence threshold),^[41] and there are 202 Real Munros in Scotland. Of the 282 Scottish Munros, 54 meet the 600 metres (1,969 ft) in prominence to be P600s.

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  List of Munro mountains in Scotland, list of Munros and of Munro Tops in Scotland, ranked by height and by prominence


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  List of Munros in Scotland by Section, a breakdown of Munros into the Munro's Tables format

Murdos

(height 3,000 ft, prominence 30 m)

Aonach Beag, in the Highlands, one of the "mini" Murdos

The Murdos apply objective criteria to the Munros and their associated tops. They comprise all the summits in Scotland over 3,000 feet (914.4 m) with a prominence of at least 30 metres (98 ft). There are currently 442 Murdos,^[31] compared to 282 Munros, or 509 Munros plus Munro Tops. Alan Dawson first compiled the list in 1995.^[42]

All Murdos are also Munro Tops, but many Munro Tops fail to qualify as Murdos because of insufficient relative height. Before 1997 there were seven Murdos that were not Munro Tops, some with quite substantial relative heights.^[43] All seven were included in the 1997 edition of Munro's Tables, plus two non-Murdos: Little Pap on Lochnagar and Knight's Peak on Sgurr nan Gillean (deleted in September 2013 after surveying showed it to be below 3000 feet.^[44] Little Pap has an estimated drop of only 22 metres^[31] and the reason for its re-introduction to the list, following its removal in the 1981 edition of Munro's Tables,^[45] is unclear.

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  TACit Tables: The Murdos – original published list of Murdos by region


• List of Murdo mountains in Scotland

Corbetts

(height 2,500–3,000 ft, prominence 500 ft)

Merrick in the Southern Uplands, is both a Corbett and a Donald

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).^[46] 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.^[40] As of October 2018^[update] there are 222 Corbetts, many of them in areas of Scotland with no Munros, include Moidart, Ardgour, the Southern Uplands and the islands of Arran, Jura, Rùm and Harris.

• List of Corbett mountains in Scotland

A list of Corbett Tops, covering every mountain in Scotland with between 2,500 and 3,000 feet (762.0 and 914.4 m) of height and between
100 and 500 feet (30.48 and 152.4 m) of relative height, was published by Alan Dawson in 2001. There are currently 676 of them, including the 222 Corbetts.^[31]

Grahams

(height 2,000–2,500 ft, prominence 150 m)

Sgùrr na Coinnich in Skye is the Graham with the greatest prominence

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.^[47] The list of mountains fitting these criteria was first published in 1992 by Alan Dawson in The Relative Hills of Britain^[32] as the Elsies (LCs, short for Lesser Corbetts). 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 October 2018^[update] 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. The number of Grahams was reduced from 224, following surveys in 2014 that showed Corwharn, Ben Aslak and Ladylea Hill to be below 609.6 metres (2,000 feet) high.^[31][48]

• List of Graham mountains in Scotland

Dawson in 2004 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 (98.43 and 492.1 ft) of relative height. There are currently 995 of them, including the 219 Grahams.^[31]

Donalds

(height 2,000 ft, prominence mostly over 100 ft, Scottish lowlands)

Corserine, the highest point of the Rhinns of Kells range, is a Marilyn, a Donald, and a Corbett

The Donalds are mountains in the Scottish Lowlands over 2,000 ft (610 m), amongst other criteria. The list was compiled by Percy Donald in 1935 and is maintained by the SMC.^[40] Whether a high point is a Donald is determined by a complicated formula which also contains qualitative elements around "sufficient topographical interest".^[49] The formula necessitates the splitting of Donalds into Donald Hills and Donald Tops. In general, all 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). 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."^[49] There are 140 Donalds, comprising 89 Donald Hills and 51 Donald Tops.^[49]

• List of Donald mountains in Scotland

Given the complexity of the Donald classification, the simpler New Donalds were 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);^[50] there are 118 New Donalds, and while all Donald Hills are New Donalds, 22 Donald Tops are not.^[51]

• List of New Donald mountains in Scotland

Outside Scotland

Furths

(height 3,000 ft, any prominence)

Caher, an Irish Furth, and the only Furth with a prominence below 30 m^[d]

Furths are mountains in Great Britain and Ireland furth of (i.e. "outside") Scotland that would otherwise qualify as Munros or Munro Tops. They are sometimes referred to as the Irish, English or Welsh Munros. There are 34 furths; 15 in Wales, 13 in Ireland and 6 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).

The Scottish Mountaineering Club ("SMC") maintains the list of Furths and records claims of Munroists who go on to complete the Furths (called "Furthists").^[52]

• List of Furth mountains in the British Isles

Hewitts

(height 2,000 ft, prominence 30 m)

Calf Top in Cumbria, the smallest Hewitt which was confirmed in 2016 as almost exactly 2,000 ft.^[e]

The Hewitts 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). The English^[53] and Welsh^[54] lists were compiled and are maintained by Alan Dawson. Dawson originally called them "Sweats" in his book, being Summits - Wales and England Above Two thousand;^[55] the Irish^[56] list is by Clem Clements. The list addresses one of the criticisms of the Nuttalls by requiring hills to have a relative height of 30 metres (98 ft), thus excluding the 125 least prominent Nuttalls from the list.

As of March 2019^[update], the DoBIH listed 525 Hewitts, 209 in Ireland,^[c] 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. Simms have replaced Hewitts, however, Dawson still maintains a list of Hewitts.^[57]

• List of Hewitt mountains in England, Wales and Ireland

Nuttalls

(height 2,000 ft, prominence 15 m)

Skiddaw, an English Nuttall

The Nuttalls are mountains in England and Wales only (e.g. not Ireland) over 2,000 feet (610 m) with a relative height of at least 15 metres (49 ft). 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.^[2][58] After updates^[59] the total reached 446 in August 2018 with the inclusion of Miller Moss.^[60]

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. Some Nuttalls would therefore not be considered peaks or mountains under UIAA definitions.^[11]

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. As of October 2018^[update], 302 people are known to have 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 climbed as they are in a restricted area of Warcop Artillery Range.^[61]

• List of Nuttall mountains in England and Wales

England only

Wainwrights

(subjective listing, Lake District NP)

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. There are 214 Wainwrights in the seven guides. There are no qualifications for inclusion other than Wainwright's choice. The lowest is Castle Crag in Borrowdale, at 951 feet (290 m). A further 116 summits were included in the supplementary guide, The Outlying Fells of Lakeland, and are known as the Wainwright Outlying Fells.^[62]

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  List of Wainwrights in the Lake District, includes Wainwrights and Wainwright Outlying Fells


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  The Outlying Fells of Lakeland, from the book Wainwright with additional detail on Wainwright Outlying Fells

Birketts

(height 1,000 ft, Lake District NP)

Pillar Rock in the Lake District National Park is the only Birkett that requires ropes to climb.^[63]

The Birketts are all the fell 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. The list was devised by Bill Birkett as the basis for his 1994 book Complete Lakeland Fells.^[64] There are 541 of these tops, and they include 209 of the 214 Wainwrights, and 59 of the 116 Wainwright Outlying Fells.^[65] The 5 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.^[31]

• List of Birketts in the Lake District

Ireland only

Mweelrea from Doo Lough in Connemara. 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.

Vandeleur-Lynams

(height 600 m, prominence 15 m)

The 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 prominence requirement of 15 metres (49 ft).^[66] As with the Nuttalls, Vandeleur-Lynams do not meet the UIAA requirements for a "peak" or "mountain".^[11] In 1952, Irish climber Joss Lynam produced a list of 2,000 ft Irish summits with 50 ft drop with assistance from Rev CRP Vandeleur. 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 first published in 1997.^[67] There are 273 Vandeleur-Lynams in Ireland.^[68]

• List of Vandeleur-Lynams in Ireland

Arderins

(height 500 m, prominence 30 m)

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). 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. The name, Arderins, was used in 2009, comes from the 527 m hill, Arderin, which is the County Top for County Laois and County Offaly in Ireland, and translates as "Height of Ireland".^[69] The Arderins were published in the 2013 book, "A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: The Vandeleur-Lynams & the Arderins".^[66] According to the MountainViews Online Database, Ireland has 407 Arderins,^[70] of which 207 are over 2,000 ft and classed as Hewitts, and the 222 are over 600 m and classed as Simms.^[c]

• List of Arderins in Ireland

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.^[71]

MountainViews

(height 500 m, prominence 100 m)

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".^[66] 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,^[72] which has also become popular to use in Ireland.^[73][74]

• List of 100 Highest Irish Mountains
  

Carns

(height 400m-499.9m, prominence 30m)

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).^[75][76]

Binnions

(height below 400m, prominence 100m)

MountainViews and Database of British and Irish Hills recognise a list of 484 summits as Binnions, having prominence at least 100 m (328 ft) and height below 400 m (1,312 ft).^[77][76] Binnion Hill is a summit of 250m in County Donegal, site of the Battle of Binnion Hill and possibly the source of the name.^[78]

County tops

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

• List of counties of England and Wales in 1964 by highest point


• List of English counties 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 point

Other active lists

Deweys

(height 500m to <2,000 ft, prominence 30 m)

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.^[79] 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 5 in Manx.^[80]
  


• The Donald Deweys are peaks in the Scottish lowlands (e.g. like 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.^[81] Donald Deweys are the Scottish lowland equivalent of Deweys. There are 248 Donald Deweys.^[81]
  


• 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), which were listed by Rob Woodhall in 2003.^[82] Highland Fives are the Scottish highland equivalent of Deweys. There are 774 Highland Fives.^[82]
  


• 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), which were listed by Michael Dewey and Myrddyn Phillips in 2000.^[83] Myrddyn Deweys are the Irish equivalent of Deweys. There are 200 Myrddyn Deweys.^[83]
  

Dodds

(height 500 to <600m, prominence 30 m)

The Dodds is a list of hills in the England, Wales, and Scotland between 500–600 metres (1,600–2,000 feet) in height, with a prominence above 30 metres (98 feet). The criteria for Dodds are designed to include Simms below 600 metres, but above 500 metres. In 2015, the Relative Hill of Britain site identified 1,339 Dodds.^[84] The name comes from DOnald Deweys, Deweys and Scotland.^[85]

Hardys

(hill range summits)

A Hardy is the highest point of a UK 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 5 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.^[86][87]

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, West Col Productions).^[76][88] Bridge used a prominence threshold of 50 feet but was hampered by the accuracy of the maps available at the time. The list was effectively replaced by the Nuttalls, which uses the metric equivalent of 15 metres.^[30]

Buxton & Lewis

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Fellrangers

The Database of British and Irish Hills recognises as Fellrangers the 227 Lake District summits in Mark Richard's Fellranger series of eight guidebooks (originally published Harper Collins startring with Central Fells ISBN 9780007113651; reprinted by Cicerone; 2013 boxed set ISBN 978-1852847487),^[76] and a list is available on the HillBagging site.^[90] There is no height or prominence threshold.^[30]

Synges

The Database of British and Irish Hills recognises as Synges the 647 Lake District summits in Timothy Synge's The Lakeland Summits: Survey of the Fells of the Lake District National Park (1995, Sigma: ISBN 978-1850584469),^[76] and a list is available on the HillBagging site.^[91] There is no height or prominence threshold.^[30]

Regional lists

The 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 District

See also

• List of mountains of the British Isles by height


• List of mountains of the British Isles by prominence


• Lists of mountains in Ireland


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  List of mountain lists International list of peakbagging lists
  


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  Lists of mountains General international lists on Wikipedia
  

Notes

References

External links

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  The Database of British and Irish Hills (DoBIH), the largest database of British Isles mountains


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  Hill Bagging UK & Ireland, the searchable interface for the DoBIH


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  MountainViews: The Irish Mountain Website, the DoBIH for Ireland (Republic and North)


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  MountainViews: Irish Online Mountain Database, the searchable database for the MountainViews


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  The Relative Hills of Britain, a website dedicated to mountain and hill classification