British Hills

Key to Classification Codes

* 400-489m hills are uncoded.
Deletions are only identified for SMC lists and Nuttalls. See Deleted Tops and Subs for details of these categories. Hills not belonging to any list have no code in the classification field but are identified as "Un" in the search table of the Access database and on www.hill-bagging.co.uk. Unclassified hills include deletions from TACit lists, "unofficial" twins, hills surveyed as falling short of Nuttall status, and a handful of hills that existed on www.hill-bagging.co.uk before the databases were merged in v11.

geocode response information

Use this page to search
a Database of British Hills v12
for a particular hill :-

• Search for a particular Hill

  • Search for a Hill

Or, in the same Database, in the area currently shown by the map, search for hills wih a particular (e.g. Corbetts), or any, classification :-

• Search for Hills by classification

  • Search for Hills by Classification

Search for a Hill.
Enter the name of the hill you want to look for.
Click 'Search'.
Click 'reset' to start again.

     The idea is that the program looks up the Database using the name entered. It expects at least 4 characters - there'll be a little red mark to the top right of the page if not. If the name that you've entered is found, the map will be redrawn at 1:50,000 and the hill marked. Click on the marker for the name and height of the hill and click that again for the further information held in the Database. There may be several hills with the same name, in which case, there'll be offered a selection list for you to choose the one required.
     If the name is not found, a fresh search is made to see if there are any names starting with what was entered. If 1 is found, it will be marked. If more than 1 is found you'll get the selection list as before. If still nothing is found, a search is made to see whether or not any of the names on the Database contain the name entered. Again the possibilities are one, more than one, or none, and, where none - you'll see a little amber marker. Although the amber marker signifies that the various possibilities of finding the name in the Database have been exhausted, clicking on it will check the Ordnance Survey gazetteer of names (some 250,000 of them) published from their complete range of 1:50,000 maps. There will be no marker(s), but, if found, the map will be redrawn at 1:50,000 with the name appearing at the center of the map. A little black circle indicates that the name was not found in the gazeteer. For present purposes, the site does not check to see whether or not the entered name is that of a hill.
     It might be of interest, where the name is that of a 'massif', to see the other 'tops' on it. Having got the marker on the map, you could use the 'Search by Classification' - try 'any' - to mark all the hills of the chosen classification in the area currently shown by the map. Alternatively, bearing in mind the previous paragraph, enter a character or so less than the full name. The selection list will still be shown, but if the number of options is less than 20 (arbitrary number - but sufficient for any British 'massif') there'll be the additional button choice to 'show all' of them.
     As an example, see the difference in entering 'Cairn Gorm' and 'Cairn Gor'. While on the subject of Cairn Gorm tops you should notice that the way the names are held in the Database is significant : thus there is no hill name 'Fiacaill a'Choire Chais'. It is 'Cairn Gorm - Fiacaill a'Choire Chais'.
     The program makes no checks to see that the selection list options are in a single 'massif'. If there are fewer than 20 options the 'show all' button is always available. So you can see, for example all the 'Geal Charn's or all the 'Meall Buidhe's or 'Beinn Dearg's, but unless the names are fairly close to each other, the map will be drawn at something other than 1:50,000.

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