County Tops (H), England - Summit Photos & Routes

Since completing my challenge to climb every mountain in England back in April 2013 on Catstye Cam I continued with the Welsh equivalent on Chwaral y Fan three months later in July 2013. (A mountain in England and Wales is defined as any 2000ft summit, with prominence of 15m  more commonly referred to as Nuttalls after John and Ann Nuttall who defined them.)

Only difference now is that scope has extended to Munros so please have a look on my Scottish hill bagging blog for a similar list of the ever expanding list of hill types in Scotland.

On the subject of expanding hill type lists because of the travelling distances involved to Wales and Scotland I have now started focusing on Marilyns and HuMPs in England and even persuaded Gina to visit all the Historic County Tops of England and Wales. For the sake of completeness I am tracking Deweys as well and as you may guess there is a similar list available to this one for each of the above mentioned hill types.

Who is this chubby couple on Whernside. Our very
first Historic County Top together back in October 2008

As you can imagine, if you have read this far, peak bagging does become obsessional. As I have mentioned many times seeking out summits provides the catalyst to go to areas you would not normally visit and gives you the excuse to return to these areas to find out more about what you never knew existed or even when working on the next hill type list. The one regret is that my wife does have the same enthusiasm and therefore does not share this passion. She has however agreed to visit all the Historic County Tops of England and Wales and I am hoping she will get a taste of what there is to discover.

Steve's English Historic County Tops

32 of 49 (65.3%)

Gina's English Historic County Tops
17 of 49 (34.7%)

Here is the alphabetic list of all 49 English Historic County Tops including my most recent date of ascent. The list will be considered complete when all 49 have been visited by Gina as well as myself indicated by "G&S" before the grid reference. Similar list for the 13 Welsh Historic County Tops can be found here.

At 32 completions of the 49 against 17 for Gina I am 15 ahead due mainly to my Nuttall visits. Obviously I will be having a repeat visit to these but this will be an opportunity to catch up with photos not taken on earlier visits and missing walk reports. It has crossed my mind not to claim the summit without a photo or walk description but that would be ridiculous. Wouldn't it?

CLICK ON GRID REFERENCE to be taken to photograph of summit area taken on day of visit.

CLICK ON HILL NAME to be given full details of each top including OS 1:50,000 map of location, height, grid references and other details.

CLICK ON DATE OF ASCENT to go to route statistics and map of route taken to visit each top.

Information taken from 'My Account' on www.hill-bagging.co.uk where I log all hills I have visited/climbed since starting

Log in on www.hill-bagging.co.uk as my guest Username:- "SteveSmith", Password:- "steve" to see full breakdown of 'My Progress'.

Other information including progress of other hill types and hill definitions is also available.

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Hill name	County	Class	Date of Ascent		Grid Reference	Metres	Feet	Drop
			for route info		for summit photo
Arbury Hill	Northamptonshire (CoH)	Hu,2,CoH,CoU, CoA			SP 54009 58778	225	738	102
Bald Hill	Oxfordshire (CoH)	Hu,2,CoH			SU 72868 95765	257	843	125
Bardon Hill	Leicestershire (CoH)	Ma,2,CoH,CoU, CoA			SK 45994 13199	278	912	170
Beacon Hill	Norfolk (CoH)	1,CoH,CoU,CoA	18 December 2008	G&S	TG 18354 41434	105	344	79
Betsoms Hill	Kent (CoH)	CoH,CoU,CoA	06 January 2015	G&S	TQ 43555 56332	251	823	15
Bishop Wilton Wold	Yorkshire, East Riding (CoH)	Ma,2,CoH,CoU, CoA	20 February 2015	G&S	SE 82179 57026	248	814	205
Black Down	Sussex, West (CoH)	Ma,2,CoH,CoU, CoA	05 January 2015	G&S	SU 91948 29634	280	919	191
Black Hill	Cheshire (CoH)	Ma,5,CoH,CoU, CoA	25 September 2010	S	SE 07817 04689	582	1909	165
Black Mountain	Herefordshire (CoH)	Ma,Sim,Hew,N, CoH,CoU,CoA	29 July 2013	S	SO 25564 35023	703	2306	154
Boring Field	Huntingdonshire (CoH)	CoH			TL 04930 71267	81	266	1
Brown Clee Hill	Shropshire (CoH)	Ma,5,CoH,CoU, CoA			SO 59375 86706	540	1772	373
Brown Willy	Cornwall (CoH)	Ma,4,CoH,CoU, CoA			SX 15873 80004	420	1378	314
Burnhope Seat - Trig Point	Durham (CoH)	CoH	13 February 2010	S	NY 78789 37537	746	2448	1
Bushey Heath	Middlesex (CoH)	1,CoH			TQ 15100 93800 (est)	154	505	81
Cheeks Hill	Staffordshire (CoH)	CoH,CoU,CoA	01 February 2009	G&S	SK 02610 69906	520	1706	0
Chrishall Common	Essex (CoH)	CoH,CoU,CoA	28 May 2009	S	TL 44304 36202	147	482	15
Cleeve Hill	Gloucestershire (CoH)	Ma,3,CoH,CoU, CoA	21 March 2011	G&S	SO 99692 24602	330	1083	234
Cold Overton Park	Rutland (CoH)	CoH,CoU	21 November 2014	G&S	SK 82708 08532	197	646	11
Ditchling Beacon	Sussex, East (CoH)	Ma,2,CoH,CoU, CoA	03 January 2015	G&S	TQ 33161 13074	248	814	214
Dunkery Beacon	Somerset (CoH)	Ma,5,CoH,CoU, CoA			SS 89150 41596	519	1703	414
Dunstable Downs	Bedfordshire (CoH)	Hu,2,CoH,CoU, CoA	02 April 2015	G&S	TL 00881 19424	243	797	105
Ebrington Hill	Warwickshire (CoH)	Hu,2,CoH,CoU, CoA			SP 18781 42634	261	856	111
Great Chishill	Cambridgeshire (CoH)	CoH,CoU,CoA	28 May 2009	G&S	TL 42730 38626	146	479	8
Great Wood	Suffolk, West (CoH)	1,CoH,CoU,CoA	16 January 2009	G&S	TL 78500 55900 (est)	128	420	37
Haddenham village	Cambridgeshire, Isle of Ely (CoH)	0,CoH	04 April 2014	G&S	TL 46710 75214	39	128	37
Hampstead Heath	County of London (CoH)	1,CoH,CoL	15 April 2010	S	TQ 26300 86475	134	440	48
Helvellyn	Westmorland (CoH)	Ma,F,Sim,Hew, N,W,B,Sy	16 September 2010	S	NY 34246 15110	950	3117	712
High Willhays	Devon (CoH)	Ma,Sim,Hew,N, CoH,CoU,CoA	12 February 2013	S	SX 58027 89220	621	2037	537
Kinder Scout	Derbyshire (CoH)	Ma,Sim,Hew,N, CoH,CoU,CoA	13 February 2011	S	SK 08484 87560	636.3	2088	496.6
Leith Hill	Surrey (CoH)	Ma,2,CoH,CoU, CoA	02 January 2015	G&S	TQ 13937 43185	295	968	246
Lewesdon Hill	Dorset (CoH)	Ma,2,CoH,CoU, CoA			ST 43776 01174	279	915	185
Mickle Fell	Yorkshire, North Riding (CoH)	Ma,Sim,Hew,N, CoH,CoU,CoA	03 March 2012	S	NY 80604 24547	790	2592	212
Milk Hill	Wiltshire (CoH)	Hu,2,sMa,CoH, CoU,CoA			SU 10427 64314	294.3	966	147
Newtonwood Lane (boundary)	Nottinghamshire (CoH)	CoH,CoU,CoA			SK 45618 60646	205	673	0
Normanby Top [The Wolds]	Lincolnshire, Parts of Lindsey (CoH)	Ma,1,CoH,CoU, CoA	20 February 2015	G&S	TF 12111 96470	168	551	162
Pavis Wood	Hertfordshire (CoH)	CoH,CoU,CoA	27 December 2009	S	SP 91433 09147	244	801	0
Pilot Hill	Hampshire (CoH)	2,CoH,CoU,CoA			SU 39875 60111	286	938	45
Pinchbeck Marsh	Lincolnshire, Parts of Holland (CoH)	CoH	08 April 2014	G&S	TF 27870 28604	8	26	5
Racecourse Road	Northamptonshire, Soke of Peterborough (CoH)	CoH,CoU	20 November 2014	G&S	TF 03530 04169	81	266	0
Scafell Pike	Cumberland (CoH)	Ma,F,Sim,Hew, N,W,B,Sy	24 May 2010	S	NY 21552 07211	978	3209	912
St Boniface Down	Isle of Wight (CoH)	Ma,2,CoH,CoU, CoA			SZ 56881 78520	241	791	241
The Cheviot	Northumberland (CoH)	Ma,Sim,Hew,N, CoH,CoU,CoA	20 May 2012	S	NT 90905 20523	815	2674	556
The Old Man of Coniston [Coniston Old Man]	Lancashire (CoH)	Ma,Sim,Hew,N, W,B,Sy,Fel	21 June 2011	S	SD 27243 97817	803	2635	416
Viking Way	Lincolnshire, Parts of Kesteven (CoH)	CoH	20 November 2014	G&S	SK 88963 23676	151	495	0
Walbury Hill	Berkshire (CoH)	Ma,2,CoH,CoU, CoA			SU 37348 61632	297	974	188
Wattisham Airfield	Suffolk, East (CoH)	CoH	18 April 2014	G&S	TM 02382 50185 (est)	91	299	1
Wendover Woods [Haddington Hill]	Buckinghamshire (CoH)	Ma,2,CoH,CoU, CoA	27 December 2009	S	SP 89074 09087	267	876	180
Whernside	Yorkshire, West Riding (CoH)	Ma,Sim,Hew,N, CoH,CoU,CoA	06 October 2008	G&S	SD 73849 81416	736	2415	408
Worcestershire Beacon	Worcestershire (CoH)	Ma,4,CoH,CoU			SO 76882 45237	425	1394	337