The Furths
All 21 of them, tallest first. The 3,000 ft summits outside Scotland — Munro height, furth of the border.
- On the list
- 21
- Highest
- Snowdon - Yr Wyddfa 1,085 m
- Lowest
- Tryfan 918 m
- Mean height
- 973 m
- Total re-ascent
- 6,206 m
- Hill regions
- 4
- In a national park
- 21
Total re-ascent adds up the drop to each hill's key col — the climbing you cannot avoid if you visit every summit on the list. It is a floor, not a round total: it counts nothing for walking in, and nothing for the ground between one hill and the next.
What counts as a Furth
Summits of at least 3,000 feet (914.4 m) outside Scotland. "Furth" is Scots for outside or beyond: these are the mountains that would be Munros if they were north of the border.
Maintained by the Scottish Mountaineering Club as a companion to Munro's Tables. The list is short enough to be a realistic season's objective, and it is the usual next step for a Munroist looking for the same standard of hill elsewhere.
The full Furth list also covers Ireland. OpenFell carries the England and Wales members; the Irish Furths are outside its scope rather than missing from it.
OpenFell holds every GB member of this list. Heights, drops and grid references are the surveyed figures from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not the round numbers printed in older guidebooks — so a hill occasionally sits a metre either side of where you expect it.
What else the Furths count for
Most British hills appear on more than one list, so a single walk often ticks several boxes at once. Of the 21 Furths:
- 21 — all of them — also appear on Nuttalls, so that list contains this one entirely.
- 21 — all of them — also appear on Hewitts, so that list contains this one entirely.
- 4 also appear on Wainwrights.
- 3 also appear on Historic county tops.
Counted against the other lists OpenFell holds in full. Lists the site carries only part of — Marilyns, HuMPs, Simms and the rest — are left out rather than reported as a fraction of themselves.
Where they are
They span Wales and England. The list spreads across 4 hill-survey regions, concentrated in Snowdonia.
| Region | Furths | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Snowdonia | 15 | 71.4% |
| Lake District C&W | 4 | 19.0% |
| Lake District E | 1 | 4.8% |
| Lake District N | 1 | 4.8% |
21 sit inside a national park: Eryri (Snowdonia) (15), Lake District (6). Park byelaws can restrict camping and access beyond the general position for the nation.
How the heights fall
| Height band | Hills | Share of the list |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000–1,100 m | 5 | 24% |
| 900–1,000 m | 16 | 76% |
All 21 Furths, tallest first
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| # | Hill | Height | Drop | Region | Also | Grid ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snowdon - Yr Wyddfa | 1,085 m | 1,039 m | Snowdonia | HewittNuttall+5 | SH609543 |
| 2 | Crib y Ddysgl | 1,065 m | 74 m | Snowdonia | HewittNuttall+1 | SH610551 |
| 3 | Carnedd Llewelyn | 1,064 m | 750 m | Snowdonia | HewittNuttall+4 | SH683643 |
| 4 | Carnedd Dafydd | 1,044 m | 114 m | Snowdonia | HewittNuttall+3 | SH662630 |
| 5 | Glyder Fawr | 1,001 m | 642 m | Snowdonia | HewittNuttall+3 | SH642579 |
| 6 | Glyder Fach | 994 m | 75 m | Snowdonia | HewittNuttall+2 | SH656582 |
| 7 | Scafell Pike | 978 m | 912 m | Lake District C&W | WainwrightHewitt+6 | NY215072 |
| 8 | Pen yr Ole Wen | 978 m | 45 m | Snowdonia | HewittNuttall+2 | SH655619 |
| 9 | Foel Grach | 975 m | 42 m | Snowdonia | HewittNuttall+1 | SH688659 |
| 10 | Scafell | 964 m | 132 m | Lake District C&W | WainwrightHewitt+4 | NY206064 |
| 11 | Yr Elen | 962 m | 54 m | Snowdonia | HewittNuttall+1 | SH673651 |
| 12 | Helvellyn | 950 m | 713 m | Lake District E | WainwrightHewitt+6 | NY342151 |
| 13 | Y Garn | 947 m | 235 m | Snowdonia | HewittNuttall+4 | SH630595 |
| 14 | Foel-fras | 944 m | 63 m | Snowdonia | HewittNuttall+1 | SH696681 |
| 15 | Broad Crag | 935 m | 58 m | Lake District C&W | HewittNuttall+1 | NY218075 |
| 16 | Ill Crag | 931 m | 49 m | Lake District C&W | HewittNuttall+1 | NY223073 |
| 17 | Skiddaw | 930 m | 706 m | Lake District N | WainwrightHewitt+5 | NY260290 |
| 18 | Garnedd Uchaf · Carnedd Gwenllian | 925 m | 33 m | Snowdonia | HewittNuttall+1 | SH686669 |
| 19 | Elidir Fawr | 924 m | 213 m | Snowdonia | HewittNuttall+4 | SH611612 |
| 20 | Crib Goch | 923 m | 66 m | Snowdonia | HewittNuttall+2 | SH624551 |
| 21 | Tryfan | 918 m | 192 m | Snowdonia | HewittNuttall+4 | SH664593 |
Hill data from the Database of British & Irish Hills v18.3 (CC BY 4.0). Drop is the descent to the hill's key col; a dash means it is not recorded in our dataset. Follow any name for grid references to ten figures, access rights, live summit weather and today's daylight.
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