Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles

Elevation . When Calf Top in Cumbria was re-surveyed in 2016 and confirmed to be 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". Regardless of the technical definition of a mountain, cultural norms also feature, with mountains in Scotland being frequently referred to as hills irrespective of their height; examples being the Cuillin Hills and the Torridon Hills. In 1994, the UIAA stated that for a "peak" to be independent (and not a sub-peak), it needed a prominence over , and a "mountain" had to have a prominence above . Unlike the single measurement of elevation, prominence requires the measurement of all contours around the peak and is therefore subject to greater revision over time, and thus classification lists based on prominence are subject to change. Some definitions use an imperial measurement for height, but a metric measurement for the topological prominence (e.g. Murdos, Hewitts, and Nuttalls. 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". It is 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). The DoBIH has been used as a source by books, hillwalking websites and smartphone apps. It has also been used in academic and topographical research. The DoBIH is available as a downloadable database, the database included 20,742 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, Yeamans, Clems, Murdos, Deweys, Donald Deweys, Highland Fives, Wainwrights, Birketts, Synges, Fellrangers, Ethels, County tops, SIBs (Significant Islands of Britain), Dillons, Arderins, Vandeleur-Lynams, Carns and Binnions. Since 2012, the DoBIH has had a data-sharing agreement with the Irish online database of mountains and hills known as MountainViews. ==British Isles==

P600 (the "Majors") is the highest mountain in the British Isles; it also has the greatest topographic prominence. The P600s are mountains in the British Isles that have a topographical prominence of at least , regardless of absolute height or other merits. The list initially used a 2,000 ft metric (or 609.6 m, the P610s) but this was subsequently reduced to 600 m and the list became known as the "Majors". The list is authored by Mark Trengove. The definitive version is published on his Europeak website and in the Database of British and Irish Hills. It is one of the shortest of the classification lists of mountains in the British Isles as it has testing threshold criteria. In 2006, 93 P600s were identified in Great Britain: 82 in Scotland, four in England and seven in Wales. These, together with one in Northern Ireland, one on the Isle of Man, and 24 in the Republic of Ireland, brought the total number of P600 mountains in the British Isles to 119. Although the margin of error means the result is not conclusive, it was accepted by Mark Trengove, who was present on the survey, bringing the total back to 119. More recently available LIDAR data for the col would give a prominence of 599.7m. In February 2020 a GNSS survey of Beinn Odhar Bheag in conjunction with OS trig point data for Rois-Bheinn found the former to be 1 metre higher. Accordingly, Beinn Odhar Bheag has replaced Rois-bheinn in the P600 list. The online version of The Database of British and Irish Hills also offers a P500 mountain classification: summits with a prominence above . Marilyns The Marilyns are mountains and hills in the British Isles that have a topographical prominence above , regardless of absolute height or other merits. As all the marginal qualifiers have been surveyed, the current list, republished in June 2025, is likely to be stable. There are 454 Marilyns in Ireland (389 in the Republic of Ireland and 66 in Northern Ireland), and five on the Isle of Man, bringing the total for the British Isles to 2,009. As of April 2020, there were 2,984 HuMPs in the British Isles: 2,167 in Scotland, 833 in Ireland, 441 in England, 368 in Wales and 11 in the Channel Islands. Jackson maintains a "Hall of Fame" for climbers who have summited 1,200 HuMPs. 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 ), 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". , 6,414 people had registered themselves as having climbed all 282 Scottish Munros, by March 2020 11 people had registered climbing all 1,557 Marilyns of Great Britain, while by August 2021 only four people had registered completion of the 2,531 Simms of Great Britain, three of whom have also declared completion of all 2,755 Simms of the British Isles. July 2020 saw one summit promoted and one deleted, and by 24/07/2020 all of the three initial completers had "topped up". Dodds The Dodds comprises hills between 500 and 600 metres in height, with a prominence above . The list was conceived in December 2014 in an article in Marhofn magazine as a unification of those parts of the Deweys, Donald Deweys and Highland Fives below 600m to create a metric list that can be viewed as a downwards extension of the Simms (British hills over 600m high). The acronym comes from "Donald Deweys, Deweys and Scotland". A Subdodd is a hill which just fails (by up to 10m) to qualify on the drop rule, i.e. between 500 m and 600 m with 20–29 m drop. The list was first published by the Database of British and Irish Hills, who maintain the list, in December 2017 after it had been recognised by the Relative Hills Society. The geographical coverage was originally confined to Britain, but was extended to the Isle of Man in February 2020 and to Ireland in September 2020. TuMPs 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 . By definition, all Murdos, Corbett Tops, Graham Tops, Hewitts and Deweys are also TuMPs. As of January 2026, there are 17,044 TuMPs; 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. ==Scotland only==

Munros , in the Flow Country, is the most northerly Munro in the British Isles The Munros are mountains in Scotland with elevation of over . The list was originally compiled by Sir Hugh Munro in 1891, and is modified from time to time by the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC), an example being the delisting in December 2020 of Stob Coire na Cloiche as a Munro Top, now recognised as being of only . 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. and there are 202 Real Munros in Scotland. Of the 282 Scottish Munros, 54 meet the prominence threshold to be classified as P600s. but the term is not in widespread use. Murdos The Murdos apply a quantitive criterion to the Munros and their associated tops, and comprise all of the summits in Scotland over with a prominence above . There are 442 Murdos, compared to 282 Munros (or 508 Munros plus Munro Tops); one of the Munros does not qualify as a Murdo (Maoile Lunndaidh), and 66 of the Munro Tops do not qualify as Murdos. Dawson's threshold is in line with the 1994 UIAA declaration that an "independent peak" has to have a prominence of over . All Murdos are either SMC Munros or SMC Munro Tops. 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. A list of British hills with over 150 metres prominence was first published in 1992 by Alan Dawson in The Relative Hills of Britain, with the subset from 2000 to 2500 feet referred to as Elsies (LCs, short for Lesser Corbetts). The Elsies were later named Grahams after the late Fiona Torbet (née Graham) who published her own list of Scottish hills from 2000 to 2500 feet six months later. Dawson continues to maintain the list, which as of December 2022 comprised 231 hills from 600 to 762 metres high. Two of the original Grahams no longer qualify: Cnoc Coinnich was found to be above the height threshold, while Stob na Boine Druim-fhinn was found to have less than 150 metres prominence. In 2004, Dawson published a list of Graham Tops covering every summit in Scotland between high with over 30 metres of prominence. This list has since been superseded by the Simms, which include all mountains in Britain over 600 metres high with at least 30 metres prominence. Donalds , 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 , amongst other criteria. The list was compiled by Percy Donald in 1935, and is maintained by the SMC. Given the complexity of the Donald classification, the simpler New Donalds was introduced by Alan Dawson in the 1995 TACit booklet The Grahams and the New Donalds, with an explicit prominence threshold of ; there are 118 New Donalds, and while all Donald Hills are New Donalds, 22 Donald Tops are not. The list is now obsolete, having been subsumed into the Graham Tops in 2004, which were in turn subsumed into the Simms in 2010. Hughs The Hughs (Hills Under Graham Height) are a list compiled by Andrew Dempster, who published ''The Hughs: Scotland's Best Wee Hills Under 2,000 Feet: Volume 1: The Mainland'' in 2015. Dempster describes them as "hills with attitude, not altitude" and says "the three key words are prominence, position, panorama". He lists 100 summits in the mainland volume, and plans a second volume to list 100 summits on the islands. they are not listed in the DBIH but have attracted attention from peakbaggers. ==Outside Scotland==

Furths , an Irish Furth, and the only Furth with a prominence below 30 m Furths are mountains in Great Britain and Ireland that are furth of (i.e. "outside") Scotland, and which would otherwise qualify as Scottish Munros or Munro Tops. They are sometimes referred to as the Irish, the English or the Welsh Munros. There are 34 furths; 15 in Wales, 13 in Ireland and six in England. The highest is Snowdon. Of these 34 SMC identified Furths, 33 have a prominence above (e.g. the Murdo Furths), 14 have a prominence above (e.g. the Real Munro Furths), and 10 have a prominence above (e.g. the P600 Furths). Hewitts in Cumbria, the smallest Hewitt which was confirmed in 2016 as almost exactly 2,000 ft. The Hewitts, named after the initials of their definition, are "hills in England, Wales and Ireland over two thousand" feet (), with a relative height of at least . The English and Welsh, lists were compiled and are maintained by Alan Dawson. the Irish component was compiled and maintained by Clem Clements up to his death in 2012; it is now maintained by the DoBIH along with his list of Irish Marilyns. The list is a subset of the Nuttall classification (see below), and excludes the 125 least prominent Nuttalls from the list. Nuttalls , an English Nuttall The Nuttalls are mountains in England and Wales only that are over , and with a relative height of at least . After updates, the total of Nuttalls reached 446 in August 2018 with the inclusion of Miller Moss. By including high points that rise by as little as 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. ==England only==

Wainwrights 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. An exception was made for Castle Crag in Borrowdale, at ; Wainwright stated that although it was below his 1,000-feet criterion, it was a perfect mountain in miniature and demanded inclusion. Birketts in the Lake District National Park is the only Birkett where use of ropes is advised. The Birketts are all the tops over within the boundaries of the Lake District National Park. Height and location, but not prominence, are the criteria. There are 541 of these tops, and they include 209 of the 214 Wainwrights, and 59 of the 116 Wainwright Outlying Fells. The five Wainwrights that are not Birketts are Armboth Fell, Baystones, Castle Crag (which, at , is Wainwright's only sub-1,000 ft summit), Graystones and Mungrisdale Common; Birketts are listed in the . This is an updated edition of his survey: the original survey contained 646 summits as set out in The Lakeland Summits: Survey of the Fells of the Lake District National Park (1995). The current list is available on the Hill Bagging website. There is no height or prominence threshold, although summits above 600 metres in height are separately identified, as are TuMPs. Ethels The Ethels are 95 hills in the Peak District, mostly over 400 m (1,300 ft) above sea level but including various prominent lower hills. Most of the Ethels lie within the Peak District National Park, but others lie outside its borders. The Ethels are a tribute to Ethel Haythornthwaite who pioneered the establishment of the Peak District as Britain's first national park in 1951. The Peak District and South Yorkshire branch of the CPRE countryside charity announced The Ethels in May 2021. The Ethels were devised in early 2021 by CPRE volunteer Doug Colton. ==Ireland only==

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 A Vandeleur-Lynam is the Irish equivalent of a Nuttall, except that the definition is fully metric with a height requirement of , and a prominence requirement of . As with the Nuttalls, Vandeleur-Lynams do not meet the UIAA requirements for a "peak" or for a "mountain". There are 274 Vandeleur-Lynams in Ireland. Arderins (527 m), the 344th highest Arderin in Ireland, and the Irish County Top for both Laois and Offaly The Arderins are mountains in Ireland above , with a prominence over . 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 Arderins were published in the 2013 book, "A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: The Vandeleur-Lynams & the Arderins". MountainViews 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''. which has also become popular in Ireland. Carns MountainViews and Database of British and Irish Hills recognise a list of 337 summits as Carns, having height above and below , and with a prominence over . Binnions MountainViews and Database of British and Irish Hills recognise a list of 484 summits as Binnions, having a prominence of at least and a height below . Binnion Hill is a peak of in height in County Donegal, site of the Battle of Binnion Hill, and possibly the source of the name. ==Wales only==

The Mud and Routes website includes a list of WASHIS: Welsh And Six Hundred In Stature, 118 summits which are over 600 m (1,969 ft) and have a prominence of at least , with the comment that "Wales doesn't have a list of summits in its own right", but the term does not appear to have been adopted elsewhere. ==County tops ==

Climbing to the highest point of each county is a 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 ceremonial counties of England 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 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 of Man between 500 metres and in height, with a prominence of at least , which were listed by Michael Dewey in 1995. 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 five in the Isle of Man. • The Donald Deweys are peaks in the Scottish lowlands (similar to the Donald classification), between 500 metres and in height, with a prominence of at least , which were listed by David Purchase in 2001. • The Highland Fives are peaks in the Scottish highlands, originally between 500 metres and metres in height, with a prominence of at least . Thus they were the Scottish Highland equivalent of the Deweys. The first listing was compiled by Rob Woodall in 2003 using contributions from Tony Payne and others. The upper height limit was reduced from 2000 ft (609.6m) to 600 metres in December 2022 in tandem with Alan Dawson's reduction of the lower height limit of the Graham Tops to 600 metres. There are 713 Highland Fives. • The Myrddyn Deweys are peaks in Ireland, between 500 metres and in height with a prominence above , listed by Michael Dewey and Myrddyn Phillips and made freely available to the Mountaineering Council of Ireland in 2000. Hardys A Hardy is the highest point of a UK, Manx or Channel Island hill range, a UK island over 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 five 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. == 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). Buxton & Lewis The Database of British and Irish Hills recognises as Buxton & Lewis the 422 summits in Mountain Summits of England and Wales (1986) by Chris Buxton and Gwyn Lewis. Clems The Database of British and Irish Hills recognises as Clems the 1,284 summits in the list Yeamans of England & Wales compiled in 1993 by E. D. Clements, known as Clem, by applying Yeaman's criterion of "an eminence which has an ascent of 100m all round, or, failing that, is at least 5 km (walking distance) from any higher point on neighbouring hills" to summits in England, Wales and the Isle of Man, together with 14 summits which he added later. They were named Clems after his death, and formed the basis of the later list of HuMPs. Fellrangers The Database of British and Irish Hills recognises as Fellrangers the 230 (originally 227) Lake District summits in Mark Richards' Fellranger series of eight guidebooks (originally published by HarperCollins, starting with Central Fells ; reprinted by Cicerone Press; 2013 boxed set ; new editions 2019–2021), There is no height or prominence threshold. The original list included 18 fells not included in the 214 Wainwrights, some of which are listed among Wainwright's "Outlying fells". The 2019–2021 edition includes a further three summits to bring the total to 230, the additions being Winterscleugh (Bretherdale Common), Whinfell Beacon and Grayrigg Forest, all in the Mardale and the far east volume. Yeamans The Database of British and Irish Hills recognises as Yeamans (sometimes spelled Yeomans) the 2,441 summits identified by Eric Yeaman in his Handbook of the Scottish Hills (1989, Arbroath:Wafaida ) with later changes. His criterion was "an eminence which has an ascent of 100 m all round, or, failing that, is at least 5 km (walking distance) from any higher point on neighbouring hills". Yeamans produced an update in 2001, and the list was used as the basis by those developing the later list of HuMPs, but the category is now considered to be "historic" and has not been updated since 2001. ==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==