The UK's County Tops. Jonny Muir
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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 204m
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
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
Introduction
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 782m
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
Introduction
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
Sculpture on the Dunstable Downs, Bedfordshire (Route 9)
Striding Edge, Helvellyn (Route 35)
INTRODUCTION
It would make a perplexing quiz question. What do the tundra plateau of the Cairngorms, a back garden on the southeast fringe of London and a military firing zone in the Pennines have in common? Answer: they are the locations of three of the UK’s historic ‘county tops’.
No hill list is quite like this one. No other is as diverse or, frankly, as wonderfully ridiculous. The only qualification is being the highest natural ground in a respective county, regardless of obscurity or reputation, be it Inverness-shire’s 1344m Ben Nevis or Huntingdonshire’s 80m Boring Field. In what other list of hills would