Mountains of the British Isles

Heights

Height of Ben Nevis – the highest mountain in Scotland, and in the British Isles		4,409 ft.
Height of Snowdon – the highest mountain Wales, and in the British Isles outside Scotland		3,560 ft.
Height of Scafell Pike – the highest mountain in England		3,210 ft.

People and Lists

Listed and gave his name to the Scottish mountains over 3,000 feet (published 1891) – now defined as over 914m		Sir Hugh T. Munro
Listed the Scottish mountains between 2,500 and 3,000 feet		J. Rooke Corbett
Listed hills in the Scottish lowlands over 2,000 feet		Percy Donald
Mountains and hills in the British Isles with a topographical prominence of at least 150 metres (490 feet) – first listed in 1992 by Alan Dawson, in The Relative Hills of Britain (Cicerone Press)		Marilyns
Local government accountant who introduced generations of hill–walkers to the English Lake District through his seven–volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, published between 1955 and 1966		A(lfred) Wainwright

Highest Points

Bodmin Moor and Cornwall		Brown Willy	1,377 ft.
The Brecon Beacons		Pen y Fan	2,907 ft.
Buckinghamshire, and the Chilterns		Haddington Hill	876 ft.
The Cairngorms: second highest in (Scotland and) the British Isles		Ben MacDui	4,296 ft.
Cheshire (on the Derbyshire border)		Shining Tor	1,834 ft.
The Cotswolds (and Gloucestershire)		Cleeve Hill	1,083 ft.
Dartmoor and Devon (and in England south of Kinder Scout)		High Willhays	2,038 ft.
Derbyshire (Peak District National Park)		Kinder Scout	2,088 ft.
Exmoor and Somerset		Dunkery Beacon	1,704 ft.
Ireland		Carrauntuohil	3,440 ft.
The Isle of Man		Snaefell	2,037 ft.
Northern Ireland (Mountains of Mourne)		Slieve Donard	2,786 ft.
The Pennines		Cross Fell	2,930 ft.
West Yorkshire (summit Soldier's Lump)		Black Hill	1,908 ft.
Yorkshire (North Yorkshire, and the Yorkshire Dales National Park)		Whernside	2,415 ft.

Beacon Hill (just over a mile from the sea; at 338 feet, England's lowest 'county top') is the highest point in

Norfolk

Mountains

Volcanic 'plug' on the outskirts of Edinburgh (822 ft.)		Arthur's Seat
Massive mountain to the east of Skiddaw, in the northern Lakes: sometimes known as Saddleback, on account of its distinctive profile; Sharp Edge (known as one of the most difficult scrambles in the Lake District) is a feature of		Blencathra
Ben Arthur (near the head of Loch Long, Argyll): popular name		The Cobbler
The highest mountain in England that's not in the Lake District National Park (in the North Pennines AONB)		Cross Fell
England's third highest mountain, (after Scafell Pike and Scafell); Striding Edge and Swirral Edge are features of		Helvellyn
National Park that includes England's highest peaks including Scafell and Scafell Pike, Helvellyn, Skiddaw, Great Gable		Lake District
Crowden Head (636m, 2,088 ft) is the highest point of		Kinder Scout
The rivers Severn, Wye and Rheidol all rise on		Pumlimon (Plynlimon)
Hill on the edge of the North York Moors, sometimes described as a 'miniature Matterhorn'		Roseberry Topping
Hill near Wildboarclough, Cheshire: the second highest in the county (after Shining Tor), with one of the most distinctive profiles in the Peak District; often described (e.g. in the AA and Bradt guides, as well as Wikipedia) as "the Matterhorn of Cheshire"		Shutlingsloe
England's fourth highest mountain (after Scafell Pike, Scafell and Helvellyn): situated to the north of Keswick, it dominates the northern Lakes		Skiddaw
Pyg Track, Watkin Path, Horseshoe		Snowdon
Yr Wyddfa (err oithva) – meaning 'the tumulus' or 'the barrow' – is the local name for
Extensive peak in the West Pennine Moors, between Bolton, Blackburn and Chorley: a television mast on its summit (built in 1966 to replace a shorter one built in 1956) is one of the tallest structures in the UK; a wildfire in 2018 burned for 41 days		Winter Hill
Prominent landmark (1335 ft) near Telford, Shropshire – at the end of the 'panhandle' of the Shropshire Hills AONB (north–east of the main range)		The Wrekin
Second highest mountain on Dartmoor (after High Willhays)		Yes Tor

Ranges

Range of hills between Abergavenny and Hay–on–Wye, east of the Brecon Beacons and in the same national park (not to be confused with those in the west of the same park which have the same name but singular)		Black Mountains
Range of hills on the England/Scotland border; Kielder Forest and Reservoir lie on their southern slopes		Cheviots
The River Thames rises in (range of hills)		Cotswolds
High Willhays and Yes Tor are the highest points on		Dartmoor
One of the three principal mountain ranges of Scotland, occupying almost half of its land area: north of the central (Forth–Clyde) belt, and south(–east) of the Great Glen. Includes Ben Nevis and the Cairngorms. (South of the central belt are the Southern Uplands; north–west of the Great Glen are the North–West Highlands.)		Grampians
AONB in Herefordshire and Worcestershire – famous for their spring water		Malverns
Runs from Weston Super Mare to Frome and forms most of the border between Somerset and Avon; Cheddar Gorge and Wookey Hole are in the		Mendips
England's longest range of hills, after the Pennines		North Downs
Scald Law is the highest point in the		Pentland Hills
Range of hills in Pembrokeshire, famous for being believed to have supplied the bluestones for Stonehenge		Preselis
Form the western border of Sedgemoor and the Somerset Levels; Britain's first AONB (1956); highest peak is Wills Neck (1261 ft, 384 m)		Quantocks
Range of hills running from West Dorset to East Sussex; gives its name to the National Trail that runs from Winchester (Hampshire) to Eastbourne (East Sussex)		South Downs

Ireland

Range in Co. Kerry that includes Ireland's highest mountains		Macgillicuddy's Reeks
Range in the North–West of Northern Ireland		Sperrins
Range south of Dublin, includes the source of the Liffey		Wicklow Mountains

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