SIGNIFICANT SUMMITS: Hills & Hill-bagging

SIGNIFICANT SUMMITS

Hills and Hill-bagging in the British (& Irish) Isles

. . . dedicated to the pursuit of bagging Significant Summits -- hill tops distinguished not by their height, but by their relative height, i.e. their prominence.

Contents:

An Introduction to Prominence: the what, the why, the where, the how, and a hopefully useful example.
The Tables -- these are just tasters, the top ends of lists as long as you want them to be, potentially infinite. More extensive tables compiled by others are available variously online or from any half-decent outdoorsy book store, or you can always go paw over the maps yourself and invent your own games.
- The Really Big Hills of The British (& Irish) Isles (incorporating the earlier "Real Two-Thousanders of the British Lowlands [and All Ireland in later editions]") -- that is, the Really, Truly, Undeniably, Big Hills of The Isles, and not just a list of high molehills. Probably the first presentation of the most Significant Summits of the geographical entity in a single table. Now showing all summits more prominent than 500m (which includes the Top 200), ranked of course entirely by prominence without regard for summit height. (we got there first too :-)
-- Short lists: The Isles carved up into bits:
1. Greater Cambria: (the original Significant Summits list) everything to the west of the rivers Severn and Weaver. Wales plus the little bit of England known as the Welsh Marches.
2. The South-West Peninsula: the moorland tops of the far south-west.
3. The Downlands: the Downs and Wolds of the lowlands south of the Trent and east of the Severn.
4. Central Britain: from Hadrian's Wall to the Trent river, includes the Pennines, the Cumbrian Mountains of the Lake District, outlying peaks, and the Isle of Man.
5. The Southern Uplands: between the Walls -- both sides of the border.
6. The Grampians: the Highlands and outlying not-so-high lands between the Great Glen and the Antonine Wall.
7. The Far North-West: comprising all the Hebrides north of the Firth of Lorn; the Shetlands; the Orkneys; the North-West Highlands (being the mainland beyond the Great Glen).
8. All Ireland: considered all-in-one for the time being.
-- Gratuitous extra list:
- Islands: the most prominent islands in the archipelago, big and small, near and far.
Mapping the Significant Summits and more:
- A lazymap of the Marilyns of the British Lowlands, showing the summits, cols, and the links between them, but precious little else -- a skeleton of the land.
- An annotated lazymap of the Marilyns of Greater Cambria, in an attempt to illustrated how well defined Wales is by the outline of its mountains.

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