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Hill lists explained
Height and drop
Most lists use two numbers. Height is how far the summit is above sea level. Drop (also called prominence) is how far you'd have to descend before you could climb to anything higher: it separates a real hill from a bump on a ridge. Older lists use feet, which is why the thresholds look odd in metres: 3,000 ft is 914.4 m and 2,000 ft is 609.6 m.
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Munros
282 · Scotland
Scottish mountains over 3,000 ft (914.4 m).
Named after Sir Hugh Munro, who published the first table of them in 1891. Climbing them all is the best-known round in Britain.
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Corbetts
222 · Scotland
Scottish hills 2,500 to 3,000 ft with at least 500 ft of drop all round.
Named after John Rooke Corbett, who drew up the list in the 1920s. Fewer walkers and often finer views than their higher neighbours.
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Grahams
231 · Scotland
Scottish hills 2,000 to 2,500 ft with at least 150 m of drop all round.
Named after Fiona Torbet (née Graham), whose list was published in 1992. Lower, quieter and frequently pathless.
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Donalds
89 · Southern Uplands
Lowland Scottish hills over 2,000 ft.
Listed by Percy Donald in 1935. The big rounded hills of the Southern Uplands.
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Wainwrights
214 · Lake District
The fells in Alfred Wainwright's seven Pictorial Guides.
The fells Alfred Wainwright described in his seven hand-drawn guides, published from 1955 to 1966. A list chosen by one man, not by a height rule.
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Hewitts
336 · England, Wales, N. Ireland
Hills in England, Wales and Ireland over 2,000 ft with at least 30 m of drop.
The name is short for Hills in England, Wales and Ireland over Two Thousand feet.
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Welsh 3000s
15 · Eryri
The Welsh mountains over 3,000 ft, often done in a single 24-hour challenge.
All in Eryri (Snowdonia), across the Snowdon massif, the Glyderau and the Carneddau.
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Other names you'll hear
- Marilyn: any hill in Britain or Ireland with at least 150 m of drop, whatever its height. Many hills on TRXO are Marilyns as well as something else.
- Munro Top: a subsidiary summit over 3,000 ft that isn't counted as a separate Munro.
- Nuttall: a hill in England or Wales over 2,000 ft with at least 15 m of drop.
- Furth: a 3,000 ft mountain in England, Wales or Ireland: "furth of" (outside) Scotland.
- Compleation: finishing the Munros, spelt that way by tradition.
Heights and lists on TRXO come from the Database of British and Irish Hills (DoBIH_v18_6), CC BY 4.0. Lists change slightly as hills are re-surveyed.
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