Walking guide to UK County Tops – Europe

• Location
• Description
• Contents
• Introduction
• Sample Route
• Reviews

Overview map   

INTRODUCTION    

The historic counties    
Defining a county top    
Using this guide    
Getting there    
Safety in the hills    

ENGLAND   

Introduction   

1    Cornwall – Brown Willy 420m    
2     Devon – High Willhays 621m    
3     Somerset – Dunkery Beacon 519m    
4    Dorset – Lewesdon Hill 279m    
5    Sussex – Black Down 280m    
6    Surrey – Leith Hill 294m    
7    Kent – Betsom’s Hill 251m    
8    Middlesex – Bushey Heath 153m    
9    Bedfordshire – Dunstable Downs 243m    
10    Buckinghamshire – Haddington Hill 267m / Hertfordshire – Pavis Wood 244m    
11    Berkshire – Walbury Hill 297m / Hampshire – Pilot Hill 286m    
12    Oxfordshire – Bald Hill 257m    
13    Wiltshire – Milk Hill 295m    
14    Gloucestershire – Cleeve Common 330m    
15    Herefordshire – Black Mountain 703m    
16    Worcestershire – Worcestershire Beacon 425m    
17    Warwickshire – Ebrington Hill 261m    
18    Northamptonshire – Arbury Hill 225m    
19    Shropshire – Brown Clee Hill 540m    
20    Staffordshire – Cheeks Hill 520m    
21    Leicestershire – Bardon Hill 278m    
22    Derbyshire – Kinder Scout 636m    
23    Nottinghamshire – Silverhill 205m    
24    Rutland – Cold Overton Park 197m    
25    Huntingdonshire – Boring Field 80m    
26    Cambridgeshire – Great Chishill 146m / Essex – Chrishall Common 147m    
27    Suffolk – Great Wood 128m    
28    Norfolk – Beacon Hill 105m    
29    Lincolnshire – Normanby Top 168m    
30    Cheshire – Black Hill 582m    
31    Lancashire – The Old Man of Coniston 803m    
32    Durham – Burnhope Seat 746m    
33    Yorkshire – Mickle Fell 788m    
34    Cumberland – Scafell Pike 978m    
35    Westmorland – Helvellyn 950m    
36    Northumberland – The Cheviot 815m    

WALES        

Introduction    

37    Flintshire – Moel Famau 562m    
38    Anglesey – Holyhead Mountain 220m    
39    Caernarvonshire – Snowdon 1085m    
40    Denbighshire – Cadair Berwyn 830m / Montgomeryshire – Moel Sych 827m    
41    Merionethshire – Aran Fawddwy 907m    
42    Cardiganshire – Plynlimon 752m    
43    Pembrokeshire – Foel Cwmcerwyn 536m    
44    Carmarthenshire – Fan Foel 781m    
45    Glamorgan – Craig y Llyn 600m    
46    Brecknockshire – Pen y Fan 886m    
47    Monmouthshire – Chwarel y Fan 679m    
48    Radnorshire – Great Rhos 660m    

SCOTLAND    

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49    Roxburghshire – Hangingstone Hill 743m    
50    East Lothian – Meikle Says Law 535m  / Berwickshire – Meikle Says Law south shoulder 532m    
51    West Lothian – Cairnpapple Hill 312m    
52    Midlothian – Blackhope Scar 651m    
53    Lanarkshire – Culter Fell 748m    
54    Peeblesshire and Selkirkshire – Broad Law 840m    
55    Dumfriesshire – White Coomb 821m    
56    Ayrshire – Kirriereoch Hill shoulder 781m / Kirkcudbrightshire – Merrick 843m    
57    Wigtownshire – Craigairie Fell 321m    
58    Buteshire – Goatfell 874m    
59    Renfrewshire – Hill of Stake 522m    
60    Stirlingshire – Ben Lomond 974m    
61    Dunbartonshire – Ben Vorlich 943m    
62    Perthshire – Ben Lawers 1214m    
63    Clackmannanshire – Ben Cleuch 721m    
64    Kinross – Innerdouny Hill 497m    
65    Fife – West Lomond 522m    
66    Kincardineshire – Mount Battock 778m    
67    Angus – Glas Maol 1068m    
68    Aberdeenshire and Banffshire – Ben Macdui 1309m    
69    Morayshire – Carn a’ Ghille Chearr 710m    
70    Nairnshire – Carn Glas-choire 659m    
71    Argyll – Bidean Nam Bian 1150m    
72    Inverness-shire – Ben Nevis 1344m    
73    Ross and Cromarty – Carn Eige 1183m    
74    Sutherland – Ben More Assynt 998m    
75    Caithness – Morven 706m   
76    Orkney – Ward Hill 479m    
77    Shetland – Ronas Hill 450m    

NORTHERN IRELAND    

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78    County Down – Slieve Donard 853m    
79    County Armagh – Slieve Gullion 576m    
80    County Fermanagh – Cuilcagh 666m    
81    County Londonderry and County Tyrone – Sawel Mountain 678m    
82    County Antrim – Trostan 550m    

Appendix 1    The UK’s historic county tops by height   
Appendix 2    The present-day county tops of England, Wales and Scotland by height