Database of British hills

Changes in v10

Database design
  • New field with 1:25000 OS map numbers (thanks to Anthony Hartry)
  • All queries in the Access version have the OS Get-a-Map hyperlink and the new map field
  • An Excel application has been developed with some of the functionality of the Access database. The current beta version is offered for evaluation and comment. Please send feedback to johnbarnard25 {a} btinternet.com replacing {a} by the usual symbol release imminent
Data changes
  • Cracoe Fell (35B) replaces Thorpe Fell Top as a Marilyn and Dewey
  • Botley Hill (42) has been relocated
  • New SubMarilyn: Suidhe Chatain on Bute (19C)
  • Axe Edge (36) is no longer a Dewey
  • Craig Wen (30B) and Fan e Chwyth (32A) added as DoubleSubHewitts
  • Over 600 10-figure Grid References have been added
  • Two alternative summits are mentioned in the Comments field: Housedon Hill NT902329 (267 spot at 1:50k) and Saugh Hill (potential twin of Troweir Hill). Waddington Fell has been established by line surveying to be 0.7m lower than Easington Fell (36) and hence is not a potential Twin Peak
  • Chactonbury Hill (42), which was relocated in v9, has been officially renamed Chactonbury Ring. The 10-figure GR has been corrected
  • Beinn a'Chlachair East Top (4B) has been restored to its former height of 977m on the latest 1:25000 map. The drop is 29m, making it a potential Murdo and Munro Top
  • The Section numbers of five minor Lakeland hills and one Scottish hill have been corrected
  • A handful of surveyed hills falling short of list criteria are added. They join the two unclassified hills previously in the database.

Previous releases

v9.0   22/12/2007

No new lists or features were added, but there are a significant number of changes to the data.

  • Two hills have been added to the Nuttalls' list and one deleted. Hill 2001 Carnedd y Filiast North Top is promoted from Deleted Nuttall. Hill 3662 Castell y Gwynt is a new addition and has the distinction of being over 3000ft high. Hill 2093 Cadair Bronwen NE Top is demoted to Deleted Nuttall. For the announcements see www.nuttalls.com and for details of the levelling surveys behind the changes see the Files section of the rhb egroup. You will need to be a member of the egroup to view the survey reports.
  • 3431 Mynydd Ceiswyn and 3661 Great Yarlside are demoted from Dewey's list, following surveys that can be viewed from the link above. The changes have been accepted by Michael Dewey.
  • 2477 Whinlatter, Barf, Broom Fell, Graystones, Ling Fell and Sale Fell have been moved to Section 34A, 2357 Dunmallet to 34C, 2176 Moel Bentyrch to 30E, 3525 Carn Pen-rhiw-ddu to 32B, and 24 Ben Clach and 25 Torlum to 26B. The other hills in Section 26 are assigned to 26A or 26B, following the splitting of the region in the Graham Tops.
  • Several summit locations have changed: Hartsop above How, Brock Crags, Chactonbury Ring, Beacon Hill (Lundy Island), Beinn Eilideach, Glan Hafon, Harper Hills, nameless (Naddle Horseshoe - 2) etc. The last of these is notable as it stems from a rare error in one of Wainwright's sketch maps. Errors in GRs are corrected for a few other hills. Some heights have changed, usually prompted by new spot heights on 1:25000 maps. However we have certainly not found them all and we anticipate further revisions in future releases.
  • Double Subs have added for Murdos, Hewitts and Grahams. The hills are included in the "Sub" categories and distinguished by a superscript in the Classification field, e.g. a DoubleSubHewitt is denoted h².
  • Area names have changed for some Welsh hills. We would have liked to adopt Dewey's regional classification for mid Wales but this would unfortunately conflict with the Nuttalls' scheme, which is needed for sorting.
  • The number of ten-figure grid references has reached 2008. 1617 are from GPS measurements and a further 391 from OS trig databases. As in previous versions, the latter are only given where no GPS measurement is available and may not necessarily correspond to the summit. 522 hills have been surveyed.

v8.1   02/07/2007

This release corrected a couple of errors in v8.0. v8.1.1 (05/08/07) subsequently corrected a bug in the Excel version.

v8.0   30/06/2007

The Deweys have been overhauled. This was prompted by the discovery of some errors in v7 and a set of more accurate grid references on Simon Edwardes' site. The most significant changes are given below. We have corresponded with Rob Woodall and Simon Edwardes and regard the current data as the best we can do pending more GPS measurements and surveys.

  • Lank Rigg (2471) replaces Blea Rigg (2470).
  • 3515 Cefn Coch and 3530 Y Domen Fawr are in section 32C, and 3443 Craig Portas E Top in 30F.
  • 86 Grid references have been changed. In most cases the change was due to eastings and northings having been rounded in the file on the rhb e-group, from which we took most of the original data. This is a common though incorrect practice; see the Database Notes.
  • A new hill, 3661, has been added for the Dewey summit of Great Yarlside as it is c.0.5km from the Wainwright Outlying Fell. This is one of three Deweys not in the original published list whose qualification is doubtful. The others are Mynydd Ceiswyn (3431) and Domen-ddu (3466). See Rob Woodall's rhb usergroup message. All three have been accepted by Michael Dewey and therefore remain in the database for the time being.
  • Where applicable, Nuttalls/Wainwright area names have been substituted for rhb Section names in the Area field.
The height of Foinaven has been reduced to 911m following the publicised CMCR survey.

Black Mountain is now deemed to be in Wales only in the Marilyn and Hewitts tables. As the hill is no longer double counted in the Marilyn country totals in the Microsoft Access version of the database, HOF members can report their year-end figures from the Totals table without adjustment.

The number of hills with 10-figure grid references has reached 1719, of which 289 have been surveyed. Continuing the practice we started in v7, we have revised the 6-figure grid references to align with the new 10-figure GRs after correcting for the systematic error in the Garmin measurement (see Database Notes).

Design changes

A new field gives hyperlinks to a 1:25000 map on OS Get-a-map.

In the Access version of the database, query 49 returns a list of unclimbed hills in any region. You will be prompted for the Section number. Note that if you omit the subsection letter, the query will return all sections commencing with that number, e.g. entering "1" will return not just 1A-1E but also 10A-10D etc.

v7.0   10/03/2007

The Deweys (hills in England, Wales and Isle of Man in the range 500-609m with at least 30m of ascent on all sides) have been added.

New fields record summit observations and surveys. 154 hills have been surveyed using levelling instruments.

Birks Fell (35B) has been promoted to a Hewitt and Nuttall. It replaces the Marilyn, Horse Head Moor.

A new Marilyn Twin Peak, Beinn Tharsuinn - Sidhean a'Choin Bhain (15B) has been added. It is also a twin Graham.

The number of 10-figure Grid References has reached 1553. 6-figure GRs have been overhauled to align with the 10-figure GRs.

The height of Knight's Peak has been increased to 915m and Beinn a'Ghlo - Carn nan Gabhar (6B) reduced to 1121m.

v6.0   06/12/2005

A new SubMarilyn has been added. This is hill 3336, Beinn Ceannabeinne (16B).

The number of 10-figure Grid References has grown to 1278, though 541 of these are from the Ordnance Survey trig point database. A new field has been added to identify the feature to which the 10 figure GR refers.

Two Deleted Munro Tops have been relocated and minor corrections applied to a handful of hills.

v5.0   11/05/2005

A new field has been added for 10 Figure Grid References. All data are from ground observations and are given to the nearest 5 metres. The database includes measurements for over 550 hills.

Two new Marilyns (one a promotion, the other a new hill) and a new English Nuttall have been added. See hills 140, 3320 and 3321.

Wainwright Outlying Fells have been completely overhauled. 14 new hills have been added, including the 12 nameless summits, and numerous changes made to grid references and heights. See the Database Notes for details. All hills in this list have been given the latest revision date irrespective of changes.

v4.2.1   04/02/2004

Correction to four entries in the Revision and Comments fields, and to the URL linking to this page in the Forms table.

v4.2   01/02/2004

The most significant change to the data is the addition of a new Marilyn Twin Peak, also a Twin Graham. This is hill 3319, Meall nan Damh (Section 12A). It is joined on 673m with hill 914, Carn na Coinnich, which remains the Marilyn by virtue of its trig pillar. There are minor changes to a further 20 hills involving a mixture of height changes, relocations and names. The hills are dated 28/01/04 in the Revision field; Query 44 in the Access version will bring them up.

The Streetmap field has been added to Queries 1-47 of the Access version. The URL has been modified to mirror a recent change in the site. It is now necessary to click on the grey arrows below and to the right of the map to bring up the 1:50000 OS map. For further information see the Database Notes.

v4.1

Minor revision to correct errors in six hills.

v4.0   17/01/2003

  • Corbett Tops
  • Buxton & Lewis list (1986)
  • Streetmap links
  • Absolute grid references
  • New SubMurdo: hill 2924
  • Beinn a'Chroin West Top: Murdo moved to hill 2925
  • Buidhe Bheinn: Twin Corbett moved from hill 715 to 713
  • Numerous minor revisions to heights, Grid Refs and hill name
  • New queries and expanded report in Access version

Earlier releases

v3.0   27/01/2002   Minor revisions; additional queries and totals report in Access version
v2.1   21/11/2001   Minor revisions
v2.0   28/10/2001   Revised and improved
v1.0   13/09/2001   Draft for comment

Upgrading

The easiest way to update your present file is to sort the records by hill number in both databases, then copy and paste the Date Climbed column from the old file to the new one. Access users should open Query 45. If you were on v3.0 or earlier, sort on the Number field using either the Hills table or the General query.

If you have climbed Beinn a'Chroin (1C) or Buidhe Bheinn (10A) and are upgrading from v3.0 or earlier please see the Database Notes in case you need to adjust your records.


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