Hills Database Updated

We've just imported the latest version of the Database of British and Irish hills which adds another 213 hills to our database including another 10 in the Lake District and makes lots of changes to the existing hill data. We were previously on version 14.1 and we're now on 15.3 which was released on 9th September.

Jessie taking a break having summitted Cat Bells

This release includes two new fields:

• County - records the current County or Unitary Authority in which the hill lies.
• Island - if the hill lies on an island rather than the mainland of Great Britain then this is recorded there.

The full revision history is available.

As usual your bagging lists will have been automatically updated as appropriate.

Normally we would give you a list here of the changes to classifications only but this time around it's vast with lots of relatively trivial changes. The really significant ones are that:

• Cnoc Coinnich, west of Loch Long, which was previously surveyed at 761m has now been re-measured and found to be 763.5m high and so has been reclassified as a Corbett rather than a Graham.
• Calf Top in the Yorkshire Dales, which was surveyed in 2010 at 609.58m, and hence just 2cm under the magic 609.6m or 2000ft which would make it a "mountain" in England and Wales has now had its height recalculated¹ and is now 709.606m high so just over 2000ft. That means it is no longer a Dewey but is now a Hewitt and Nuttall.

Other re-classifications include:

They have also been very busy with the positions of tops and a lot have moved by small distances so if you want to see a list of all the changes, to names, heights, description of summit feature, locations, and classifications it can be found here.

1. You can read more about the re-classification of Calf Top on the Ordnance Survey blog - which also has an article on there explaining why its height has been re-calculated (I should warn you, it's a bit technical and map nerdy.

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