How to use the hill finder and bagging tracker
The hill finder filters all 1,140 hills on this site by list, country, county, height and drop, sorts them, and plots them on a map. You can tick the hills you have climbed, and it keeps a running count for each of the ten lists. Ticks stay in your own browser; there is no account and nothing is sent to us.
The filters
- Hill list. One of the ten lists, or any. The number in brackets is how many of that list are profiled here.
- Country and county. Five countries and 69 county entries as recorded in the Database of British and Irish Hills. A hill on a boundary is filed under both counties together, so “Highland, Perth and Kinross” is its own choice. The larger single counties, such as Highland with 427 hills, have their own pages too.
- Height from and to. In metres. Leave either empty for no limit. 3,000 ft is 914.4 m, 2,500 ft is 762 m and 2,000 ft is 609.6 m.
- Drop at least. The minimum height of the summit above its key col. 150 m is the Marilyn standard; 30 m and 15 m are the Hewitt and Nuttall rules.
- Show. All hills, only the ones you have ticked, or only the ones you have not.
- Sort by. Height (the default), drop, isolation or name.
Results update as soon as you change a field. The address in your browser updates too, so you can bookmark a search or send it to someone; the links in the table below work the same way.
Worked examples
| Search | Hills | Highest match | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Munros of 1,200 m or more | 10 | Ben Nevis (1,344.5 m) | Highest: Ben Nevis |
| Marilyns in Ireland of 800 m or more | 17 | Carrauntoohil (1,038.6 m) | Highest: Carrauntoohil |
| Wainwrights with a drop of 300 m or more | 12 | Scafell Pike (978.1 m) | Highest: Scafell Pike |
| Corbetts with a drop of 600 m or more | 21 | Foinaven [Foinne Bhein] – Ganu Mor (911 m) | Highest: Foinaven [Foinne Bhein] – Ganu Mor |
| Hewitts in Wales | 54 | Snowdon – Yr Wyddfa (1,085 m) | Highest: Snowdon – Yr Wyddfa |
| Grahams below 650 m | 56 | Carn Salachaidh (648 m) | Highest: Carn Salachaidh |
| Every hill in Stirling | 33 | Ben More (Stirling) (1,173.9 m) | Highest: Ben More (Stirling) |
Counts from the current data. Each search opens in the finder.
The Wainwright search is a good example of what drop reveals. Of the 214 fells, only 12 rise 300 m or more above their key col, led by Scafell Pike (912.2 m) and Helvellyn (713.4 m). Sort the same list by drop and the bottom of the table fills with fells of a few metres: 58 Wainwrights have less than 30 m.
The Grahams search shows the opposite effect for height: 56 of the 231 Grahams are below 650 m, yet every one of them has at least 150 m of drop.
Reading the results
Each row gives the hill's height, drop, isolation and county. Isolation is the straight-line distance to the nearest higher summit anywhere in the database. On a phone, the drop, isolation and county move to a second line under the name. The map marks every match in heather and every match you have ticked in blue, over grey dots for all 2,007 Marilyns, so a search for one county or list shows at once how the hills cluster.
The table shows the first 50 matches; a button below it adds more. Hill names open the full profile, which has the same tick button beside the register entry, so you can mark a hill climbed from either place.
Ticks and progress
A tick belongs to the hill, not the list, so one tick counts for every list the hill is on. Ticking Scafell Pike adds one each to the Wainwrights, Hewitts, Nuttalls, Furths, Marilyns and county tops. Your progress panel shows each list as “ticked of profiled”.
For six lists the site holds only part of the list: Donalds (31 of 88), Hewitts (275 of 522), Nuttalls (193 of 441), Furths (15 of 34), Marilyns (885 of 2,007) and county tops (51 of 111). These are the members that are also Munros, Wainwrights or Marilyns of 600 m or more. Your count for those lists is of the hills here, not the full list.
Ticks are stored with your browser's local storage, on this device only. Private windows, clearing site data or switching browsers will lose them, and some browsers block storage altogether; the finder says so if it cannot save. There is no export or sync.
What it does not do
The finder sorts and counts the published data. It does not suggest routes, rate difficulty or give weather, safety or access information, and the map is a locator, not a map to walk with. Heights and drops are those of the database; if a figure looks wrong, the database maintainers are the right people to tell.
For the background to the lists themselves, read Munros, Marilyns and Wainwrights: how the lists differ.
Sources
- Contains data from The Database of British and Irish Hills v18.6 (www.hill-bagging.co.uk/dobih), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Distances, ranks and comparisons are our own calculations. hill-bagging.co.uk/dobih, licence.
- How drop, isolation and ranks are worked out: Data & methodology.