The Hewitts

What counts as a Hewitt

Hills of at least 2,000 feet (609.6 m) with a drop of at least 30 m on all sides. The name is an acronym: Hills in England, Wales and Ireland over Two Thousand feet.

Devised by Alan Dawson as a prominence-disciplined alternative to the Nuttalls over the same hills. Doubling the drop threshold from 15 m to 30 m strips out subsidiary bumps, so a Hewitt round visits fewer summits but a higher proportion of genuinely separate mountains.

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 Hewitts count for

Most British hills appear on more than one list, so a single walk often ticks several boxes at once. Of the 331 Hewitts:

• 316 also appear on Nuttalls.
• 96 also appear on Wainwrights.
• 21 also appear on Furths.
• 18 also appear on Historic county tops.
• 1 also appear on Donalds.

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 England, Wales and Northern Ireland, with one sitting astride the England–Scotland border itself. The list spreads across 19 hill-survey regions, concentrated in Lake District C&W.

Twelve busiest regions shown, of 19 — browse them all.

261 sit inside a national park: Lake District (114), Eryri (Snowdonia) (87), Yorkshire Dales (30), Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) (22), Northumberland (5), Peak District (2), Dartmoor (1). Park byelaws can restrict camping and access beyond the general position for the nation.

How the heights fall

All 331 Hewitts, tallest first

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.