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UK & Irish hill classifications explained

Munros, Corbetts, Wainwrights, Hewitts, Marilyns and every other list hill baggers tick off.

Hill bagging is the habit of walking every summit on a list. Britain and Ireland have dozens of lists, each with its own rule about how high a hill must be, how much it has to rise above its surroundings (its prominence), and where it sits. BaggedIt tracks all of the lists below in one place, so a single summit can tick off a Munro, a Marilyn and a county top at once.

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Lists with a full page on this site

ListHillsWhat qualifies
Munros282Scottish mountains over 3,000 ft (914.4 m), first catalogued by Sir Hugh Munro in 1891.
Corbetts222Scottish hills between 2,500 and 3,000 ft with at least 500 ft of prominence.
Grahams231Scottish hills between 2,000 and 2,499 ft with at least 150 m of prominence.
Donalds89Hills in the Scottish Lowlands over 2,000 ft.
Wainwrights214The 214 Lake District fells described in Alfred Wainwright’s Pictorial Guides.
Hewitts523Hills in England, Wales and Ireland over 2,000 ft (609.6 m) with at least 30 m of prominence.
Nuttalls442Hills in England and Wales over 2,000 ft with at least 15 m of prominence, from John and Anne Nuttall’s guides.
Furths34Mountains over 3,000 ft in England, Wales and Ireland: the Munros “furth of Scotland”.
Munro Tops226Subsidiary summits over 3,000 ft that are not counted as separate Munros.

Other classifications BaggedIt tracks

ListHillsWhat qualifies
Marilyns2010A hill anywhere in Britain or Ireland with at least 150 m of prominence, regardless of height.
Humps1803A hill with at least 100 m of prominence (“HUndred Metre Prominence”).
Simm2754A hill in Britain over 600 m with at least 30 m of prominence (“SIx hundred Metre Mountain”).
Dodd1530A hill between 500 and 599 m with at least 30 m of prominence.
Donald Top52A subsidiary top of a Donald in the Scottish Lowlands.
Dewey425A hill in England, Wales or the Isle of Man between 500 m and 2,000 ft with at least 30 m of prominence.
Highland Five711A Scottish hill between 500 and 599 m with at least 30 m of prominence.
Wainwright Outlying Fell116One of the fells in Wainwright’s Outlying Fells of Lakeland.
Birkett541One of the 541 Lake District tops over 1,000 ft listed by Bill Birkett.
Ethel95The Peak District hills in Ethel Haythornthwaite’s memorial list.
Synge648One of the Lake District fells described by Tim Synge.
Fellranger230One of the fells in Mark Richards’ Lakeland Fellranger guides.
Historic County Top121The highest point of a historic (pre-1974) county.
Current County/UA Top213The highest point of a current county or unitary authority.

Height and prominence, briefly

Height is the summit’s elevation above sea level. Prominence (also called “drop” or “re-ascent”) is how far you would have to descend from the summit before you could climb anything higher. A 3,000 ft shoulder with 20 m of drop is a Munro Top; the same height with enough separation is a Munro in its own right. Most modern lists are defined by prominence because it is objective, where older lists like the Munros and Wainwrights rest on their authors’ judgement.

Where the data comes from

Every hill page here, and the hill database inside the app, is built from the Database of British and Irish Hills (DoBIH), the volunteer-maintained reference the walking community relies on for heights, grid references and list membership. Surveys change the lists from time to time, and the app updates with them.

Hill data from the Database of British and Irish Hills, licensed under CC BY 4.0.