The UK hill lists
British hillwalking runs on lists. Some are measured — a height, a drop, a formula. Some are one person's taste written down and never revised. Knowing which is which tells you why two guidebooks disagree about how many mountains a range contains.
OpenFell holds 12 lists in full — every GB member of each, 2,682entries in all across 2,114 hills, since most hills count for more than one. Each list page carries the complete round in height order, with the drop, region and grid reference for every hill, and a breakdown of where the list falls.
Munros 282
Scottish mountains of at least 3,000 ft — the best-known list in British hillwalking.
ScotlandMunro Tops 226
The other 3,000 ft summits of Munro's Tables — the fuller Munro round.
ScotlandCorbetts 222
Scottish hills between 2,500 and 3,000 ft with 500 ft of drop on every side.
ScotlandGrahams 231
Scottish hills between 2,000 and 2,500 ft with at least 150 m of drop.
Southern ScotlandDonalds 89
The 2,000 ft hills of the Scottish Lowlands, on an unusually intricate rule.
Lake DistrictWainwrights 214
The 214 Lakeland fells given a chapter in Wainwright's Pictorial Guides.
Lake District fringeWainwright Outlying Fells 116
The lower fells of Wainwright's later companion volume, around the Lakeland fringe.
England and WalesNuttalls 442
Every 2,000 ft summit in England and Wales with 15 m of drop — the most inclusive of the 2,000 ft lists.
England and WalesHewitts 331
Hills over 2,000 ft with 30 m of drop — the stricter reading of the same ground as the Nuttalls.
England, Wales and the Isle of ManDeweys 420
The 500-metre hills of England, Wales and the Isle of Man — where the Hewitts stop, these begin.
England and WalesFurths 21
The 3,000 ft summits outside Scotland — Munro height, furth of the border.
United KingdomHistoric county tops 88
The highest point of each pre-1974 county — a round that spans the whole country.
The lists side by side
Height thresholds are in feet because that is how the lists were written; the metric equivalents are exact conversions, which is why they look so unround.
| List | Where | Hills | Highest | Lowest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Munros | Scotland | 282 | Ben Nevis 1,345 m | Beinn Teallach 915 m |
| Munro Tops | Scotland | 226 | Carn na Criche 1,265 m | Carn na Caim South Top 915 m |
| Corbetts | Scotland | 222 | Beinn a' Chlaidheimh 914 m | Beinn na h-Uamha 762 m |
| Grahams | Scotland | 231 | Beinn Talaidh 762 m | Leagag 601 m |
| Donalds | Southern Scotland | 89 | Merrick 843 m | Innerdownie 610 m |
| Wainwrights | Lake District | 214 | Scafell Pike 978 m | Castle Crag 290 m |
| Wainwright Outlying Fells | Lake District fringe | 116 | Walna Scar 621 m | Humphrey Head 53 m |
| Nuttalls | England and Wales | 442 | Snowdon - Yr Wyddfa 1,085 m | Calf Top 610 m |
| Hewitts | England and Wales | 331 | Snowdon - Yr Wyddfa 1,085 m | Calf Top 610 m |
| Deweys | England, Wales and the Isle of Man | 420 | Horse Head Moor 609 m | Ffridd yr Allt-llwyd 500 m |
| Furths | England and Wales | 21 | Snowdon - Yr Wyddfa 1,085 m | Tryfan 918 m |
| Historic county tops | United Kingdom | 88 | Ben Nevis 1,345 m | Boring Field 81 m |
Measured lists and chosen lists
Most of these lists are arithmetic. A hill qualifies if it clears a height and drops far enough to its key col — the lowest point on the highest route to higher ground. Change the drop threshold and you change the list: the Nuttalls ask for 15 m and admit 442 hills in England and Wales, while the Hewitts ask for 30 m over the same ground and admit 331. Neither is wrong. They are answering different questions about what makes a bump a mountain.
Two of the lists here are not arithmetic at all. The Wainwrights are the fells A. Wainwright chose to give a chapter, and the Munros are separated from their subsidiary Tops by editorial judgement rather than a rule. That is why the Munro count has moved over the years and the Wainwright count never has — a resurvey can promote or demote a Munro, but nothing can add a 215th chapter to a finished book.
Figures come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, which records modern survey results. Where a GPS survey has moved a summit by half a metre, our figure will differ from the round number on an older map — and occasionally that half-metre is exactly what decides whether a hill is on a list at all.
Lists we hold only part of
A hill page will sometimes badge a summit a Marilyn or a Simm. Those are real classifications recorded in our source data, but OpenFell does not hold every member of those lists, so there is no list page for them and no completion count you could trust. Here is exactly how far the coverage goes.
| List | On OpenFell | UK members | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| HuMP | 1,074 | 3,041 | 35% |
| Simm | 1,307 | 2,546 | 51% |
| Marilyn | 856 | 1,590 | 54% |
| Synge | 344 | 648 | 53% |
| Significant Island of Britain | 0 | 604 | 0% |
| Birkett | 323 | 541 | 60% |
| Murdo | 439 | 441 | 100% |
| Fellranger | 223 | 230 | 97% |
| Current County/UA Top | 72 | 180 | 40% |
| Trail 100 | 98 | 100 | 98% |
| Donald Top | 1 | 52 | 2% |
Counted over UK hills only. The site's inclusion rule is that a hill earns a page by appearing on one of the 12 lists above, so members of these lists are present when they also qualify some other way and absent when they do not. See data sources for the rule in full.
Keep exploring
Search all 2,114 peaks
Every hill on OpenFell by name, in English, Gaelic and Welsh.
BrowseBy region
The 96 hill-survey regions, from the Northern Highlands to the South-West.
BrowseBy national park
Peaks inside the UK's national parks, with the access rules that apply in each.
ReferenceGlossary
Prominence, key col, bealach, access land — what the terms on these pages actually mean.
LogbookTrack a round
Tick hills off and watch the progress bar on every list page fill in. Saved in your browser.