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The hill lists of Britain and Ireland

From the 214 Wainwrights to the 282 Munros, every classic hill list with its full set of summits. Open a list to see each peak, its height and where it sits.

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• Wainwrights - 214 peaks, Lake District
  The 214 Lake District fells described in Alfred Wainwright's seven Pictorial Guides, published between 1955 and 1966. They run from Castle Crag at 290 m, the only fell under a thousand feet, to Scafell Pike at 978 m, the highest ground in England. There are no rules to a round, only the list, which is exactly why people finish it.
• Munros - 282 peaks, Scottish Highlands
  The 282 Scottish mountains over 3,000 feet (914.4 m), first catalogued by Sir Hugh Munro in 1891 and maintained by the Scottish Mountaineering Club ever since. Ben Nevis tops the list at 1,345 m; the remotest entries, in the Fisherfield and Knoydart hinterlands, are two days' walk from a road. More than 7,000 people have registered a completed round, most of them after decades of weekends.
• Yorkshire Three Peaks - 3 peaks, Yorkshire Dales
  Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough, the three summits of the classic Yorkshire Dales challenge walk. The traditional circuit from Horton in Ribblesdale covers roughly 39 km with about 1,600 m of ascent, and the accepted target is under 12 hours. Whernside is the highest of the three at 737 m; Ingleborough is the one that feels it.
• Welsh 3000ers - 16 peaks, Snowdonia
  The Welsh peaks above 3,000 feet (914 m), all packed into three ranges in northern Eryri: the Snowdon massif, the Glyderau and the Carneddau. Depending on which tops you count there are 14 to 16; Atlas tracks 16, with Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) the highest at 1,085 m. Crossing the lot in a single push is the Welsh 3000s challenge, one of the hardest day walks in Britain.
• Ethels - 95 peaks, Peak District
  The 95 hills of the Peak District and its fringes, published in 2021 and named for Ethel Haythornthwaite, the campaigner whose work helped create Britain's first national park. Kinder Scout is the highest at 636 m; many of the rest are quiet gritstone edges and limestone tops that the crowds walk straight past. A round is very achievable in a year of weekends.
• County tops - 174 peaks, United Kingdom
  The highest point of every current county and unitary authority in Great Britain, 174 of them. Some are Munros; others are a trig pillar in a field or an unmarked rise on the edge of town. The list goes everywhere, which is rather the point.
• Historic county tops - 85 peaks, United Kingdom
  The highest point of each of the 85 traditional counties of Great Britain, as they stood before the boundary reforms of the 1970s. Older, steadier and a good deal hillier than the modern list, from Ben Nevis down to the gentle top of Huntingdonshire.
• Corbetts - 222 peaks, Scotland
  The 222 Scottish hills between 2,500 and 3,000 feet (762 to 914 m) with at least 500 feet (152 m) of drop on every side, compiled by John Rooke Corbett in the 1920s. The strict prominence rule means every Corbett is a genuinely separate hill, and plenty give harder days than the Munros they stand beside. A Corbett round is the connoisseur's project.
• Fionas - 219 peaks, Scotland
  The 219 Scottish hills between 2,000 and 2,500 feet with at least 150 m of drop, the list Fiona Torbet surveyed and published in 1992. They reach from the Borders to the far north-west and out to the islands; Beinn Talaidh on Mull sits right on the upper limit at 762 m. Quieter than the Munros in every way except the views.
• Donalds - 88 peaks, Southern Uplands
  The hills of the Scottish Lowlands over 2,000 feet (610 m), catalogued by Percy Donald in 1935 using a formula of his own devising for what counts as a separate top. Atlas tracks 88 of them, from the Pentlands above Edinburgh to the Galloway hills, with the Merrick the highest at 843 m. Grassy, rolling and honest walking, mostly shared with sheep.
• Munro Tops - 226 peaks, Scottish Highlands
  The 226 subsidiary summits over 3,000 feet that the Scottish Mountaineering Club lists as Tops rather than separate Munros. Most sit on ridges you were walking anyway; a few demand a long detour for one more cairn. Finishing the Munros and the Tops together is the full round.
• Furths - 34 peaks, England, Wales & Ireland
  The 34 summits over 3,000 feet outside Scotland: 15 in Eryri, 6 in the Lake District and 13 in Ireland. Munroists add them to finish the job properly. Small list, long drives.
• Nuttalls - 442 peaks, England & Wales
  The mountains of England and Wales at least 2,000 feet (610 m) high with 15 m of re-ascent on every side, surveyed by John and Anne Nuttall in the early 1990s. The generous prominence bar makes it the long list: Atlas tracks 441, topped by Yr Wyddfa at 1,085 m. Finishing it means standing on nearly every piece of high ground in both countries.
• Hewitts - 316 peaks, England & Wales
  Hills in England, Wales and Ireland Above Two Thousand feet, which is where the name comes from, with at least 30 m of prominence. A stricter cut than the Nuttalls, so every Hewitt feels like its own hill. Atlas tracks the 315 English and Welsh entries, from Yr Wyddfa (1,085 m) down; the Irish ones can wait.
• Birketts - 541 peaks, Lake District
  Every Lake District top over 1,000 feet (305 m) in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells, 541 in all. The list swallows the Wainwrights whole and then more than doubles them, adding the outlying and in-between tops Wainwright left out. This is the long game of Lakeland bagging.
• Outlying Fells - 116 peaks, Lake District
  The 116 lower tops on the edges of Lakeland from Wainwright's eighth book, The Outlying Fells of Lakeland (1974), written for walkers whose knees had started to argue. Many go in small rounds from a single car park. Black Combe is the pick of them; several are barely hills at all, which is part of the charm.
• Mourne Mountains - 35 peaks, Mourne Mountains
  The granite range in the south-east corner of Northern Ireland, where the mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea, together with the outlying County Down hills the Database of British and Irish Hills files alongside them. 35 summits on the Marilyn, Simm, Arderin or Vandeleur-Lynam lists, from Slieve Donard at 850 m, the highest point in Ulster, down to Cairngaver at 214 m. Hills that make only the Hump list are left out. The Mourne Wall ties most of the high ones together.
• Sperrin Mountains - 32 peaks, Sperrin Mountains
  A long, rounded range across Tyrone and Londonderry, with Sawel the highest at 678 m, plus the outliers DoBIH counts with it, as far as Binevenagh above Lough Foyle. 32 summits on the Marilyn, Simm, Arderin or Vandeleur-Lynam lists, leaving out the Hump-only hills. Big skies, few people and enough bog to keep the pace honest.
• Northern Ireland county tops - 5 peaks, Northern Ireland
  The highest point of each of the six historic counties of Northern Ireland, which comes to five summits: Sawel tops both Londonderry and Tyrone. Slieve Donard for Down, Trostan for Antrim and Slieve Gullion for Armagh make up the rest, with Cuilcagh for Fermanagh sitting right on the border with Cavan.
• Marilyns - 1,555 peaks, United Kingdom
  British hills with at least 150 m of prominence regardless of absolute height, defined by Alan Dawson in The Relative Hills of Britain (1992); the name is a joke at the Munros' expense. Atlas tracks 1,555 across Great Britain, from modest coastal tops to Ben Nevis at 1,345 m. Only a handful of people have ever finished them, which is either a warning or an invitation.