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Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles

Index Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles

The mountains and hills of Great Britain, and to a lesser extent Ireland, are the subject of a considerable number of lists that categorise them by height, topographic prominence, or other criteria. [1]

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Alfred Wainwright

Alfred Wainwright ("A.W.") MBE (17 January 1907 – 20 January 1991) was a British fellwalker, guidebook author and illustrator.

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Ardgour

Ardgour (meaning Height of the goats) is an area of the Scottish Highlands on the western shore of Loch Linnhe.

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Black Mountain (hill)

Twyn Llech, also known as Black Mountain, is a mountain in the Black Mountains.

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Bob Graham Round

The Bob Graham Round is a fell running challenge in the English Lake District.

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Castle Crag

Castle Crag is a hill in the North Western Fells of the English Lake District.

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Climbing

Climbing is the activity of using one's hands, feet, or any other part of the body to ascend a steep object.

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Cuillin

The Cuillin (An Cuilthionn or An Cuiltheann) is a range of rocky mountains located on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.

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Dewey (hill)

A Dewey is a hill or mountain in England or Wales over 500 metres (1,640 feet) in elevation, but below 2,000 feet (609.6 metres), with a relative height of at least 30 metres (98 feet).

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Elevation

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vertical datum).

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England–Wales border

The England–Wales border, sometimes the Wales–England border or the Anglo-Welsh border, is the border between England and Wales, two constituent countries of the United Kingdom.

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Fell

A fell (from Old Norse fell, fjall, "mountain"Falk and Torp (2006:161).) is a high and barren landscape feature, such as a mountain range or moor-covered hills.

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Fell running

Fell running, also sometimes known as hill running, but not to be confused with mountain running, is the sport of running and racing, off road, over upland country where the gradient climbed is a significant component of the difficulty.

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Hardy (hill)

A Hardy is any one of a category of mountain, hill or high point in the United Kingdom which is the highest point in a hill range; island over; or top-tier administrative area.

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Harris, Scotland

Harris (Scottish Gaelic) is the southern and more mountainous part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

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Hill

A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain.

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Isle of Arran

Arran (Eilean Arainn) or the Isle of Arran is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde and the seventh largest Scottish island, at.

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Isle of Man

The Isle of Man (Ellan Vannin), also known simply as Mann (Mannin), is a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland.

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John Rooke Corbett

John Rooke Corbett (27 September 1876 – 13 August 1949), better known as J. Rooke Corbett was one of the founder-members of The Rucksack Club and their Convener of Rambles.

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Jura, Scotland

Jura (Diùra) is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, adjacent to and to the north-east of Islay.

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Lake District

The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England.

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

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

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List of Donalds

Donalds are hills in the Scottish lowlands over 2000 feet (609.6 m).

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List of English counties by highest point

This is a list of the ceremonial counties of England by their highest point.

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List of Furths

This is a list of Furths, a "Furth" or "Furth Munro" being a mountain or top over high in the British Isles that is furth of (i.e. "outside") Scotland, that would otherwise be classed as a Munro or Munro Top if it were located in Scotland.

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List of Hewitts and Nuttalls in England

This is a list of mountains in England over 2,000 feet.

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List of Hewitts and Nuttalls in Wales

This is a list of mountains in Wales over 610m.

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List of Hewitts in Ireland

Hewitts are hills in England, Wales and Ireland that are at least high with a relative height of at least 30 m.

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List of Hewitts in Northern Ireland

Hewitts are Hills in England, Wales and Ireland (at least) 2,000 ft (609.6 m) high with a relative height of at least.

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List of hills in the Peak District

This is a list of the hills of the Peak District of England.

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List of hills of Cornwall

This is a list of hills in Cornwall based on data compiled in various sources, but particularly the, Jackson's More Relative Hills of Britain and the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer and 1:50,000 Landranger map series.

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List of hills of Dorset

This is a list of hills in Dorset.

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List of hills of Hampshire

This is a list of hills in Hampshire.

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List of hills of Wiltshire

This is a list of hills in Wiltshire.

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List of Irish counties by highest point

This is a list of Irish counties by highest point.

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List of Marilyns in England

This is a list of the 176 Marilyns in England, which are those peaks that have 150m or more of relative height.

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List of Marilyns in Ireland

This is a list of the 389 Marilyns in the Republic of Ireland.

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List of Marilyns in Northern Ireland

This is a list of the 66 Marilyns in Northern Ireland.

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List of Marilyns in Scotland

The full list of the 1218 Marilyns in Scotland is divided geographically into four pages.

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List of Marilyns in Wales

This is a list of the 158 Marilyns in Wales.

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List of mountains and hills of the British Isles by height

The following is a list of the mountains and hills of the British Isles, ordered by height.

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List of mountains and hills of the United Kingdom

This is a links page to the hills and mountains to be found in the United Kingdom (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales), and includes lists of the highest mountains in each of the constituent countries.

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List of mountains in Ireland

This is a list of mountains and mountain ranges in Ireland.

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List of mountains in the British Isles by relative height

This is a list of mountains in the British Isles with a relative height of 600 m or more, in descending order of relative height.

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List of Munros

This is a list of all 282 Munros, as according to the Scottish Mountaineering Club and The Munro Society.

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List of Scottish council areas by highest point

This is a list of the 32 council areas of Scotland by their highest point.

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List of Scottish counties by highest point

This is a list of the 33 Scottish Counties by their highest point.

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List of tumps

Tump means a hillock, mound, barrow or tumulus.

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List of Wainwrights

The Wainwrights are the 214 fells (hills and mountains) described in A. Wainwright's seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells (1955–66).

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List of Welsh principal areas by highest point

This is a list of the principal areas of Wales, ordered by their highest points.

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Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles

The mountains and hills of Great Britain, and to a lesser extent Ireland, are the subject of a considerable number of lists that categorise them by height, topographic prominence, or other criteria.

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Marilyn (geography)

A Marilyn is a mountain or hill in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland or Isle of Man with a prominence of at least 150 metres (492 ft), regardless of absolute height or other merit.

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Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962) was an American actress, model, and singer.

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Moidart

Moidart is part of the remote and isolated area of Scotland, west of Fort William, known as the Rough Bounds.

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Mountain

A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak.

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Munro

A Munro is a mountain in Scotland with a height over.

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Peak bagging

Peak bagging or hill bagging is an activity in which hikers, climbers, and mountaineers attempt to reach a collection of summits, published in the form of a list.

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Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells

A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells is a series of seven books by A. Wainwright, detailing the fells (the local word for hills and mountains) of the Lake District in northwest England.

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Pillar (Lake District)

Pillar is a mountain in the western part of the English Lake District.

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Rùm

Rùm(), a Scottish Gaelic name often anglicised to Rum, is one of the Small Isles of the Inner Hebrides, in the district of Lochaber, Scotland.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Scottish Highlands

The Highlands (the Hielands; A’ Ghàidhealtachd, "the place of the Gaels") are a historic region of Scotland.

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Scottish Lowlands

The Lowlands (the Lallans or the Lawlands; a' Ghalldachd, "the place of the foreigner") are a cultural and historic region of Scotland.

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Scottish Mountaineering Club

The Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) is Scotland's second oldest mountaineering club.

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Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet

Sir Hugh Thomas Munro, 4th Baronet (16 October 1856–19 March 1919) was a Scottish mountaineer who is best known for his list of mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet (914.4 m), known as the Munros.

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Snowdon

Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) is the highest mountain in Wales, at an elevation of above sea level, and the highest point in the British Isles outside the Scottish Highlands.

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Southern Uplands

The Southern Uplands are the southernmost and least populous of mainland Scotland's three major geographic areas (the others being the Central Lowlands and the Highlands).

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The Outlying Fells of Lakeland

The Outlying Fells of Lakeland is a book written by Alfred Wainwright, dealing with hills in and around the Lake District of England.

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Topographic prominence

In topography, prominence characterizes the height of a mountain or hill's summit by the vertical distance between it and the lowest contour line encircling it but containing no higher summit within it.

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Torridon Hills

The Torridon Hills surround Torridon village in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland.

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Walking in the United Kingdom

Walking is one of the most popular outdoor recreational activities in the United Kingdom, and within England and Wales there is a comprehensive network of rights of way that permits easy access to the countryside.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_mountains_and_hills_in_the_British_Isles

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