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Written on 27/12/12 by Paul Oldham

Hills Database Updated

We've just imported the latest version of the Database of British and Irish hills which adds another 53 hills to our database and makes lots of changes to the existing hill data. We were previously on version 12.1 (with some changes we'd done for any significant re-classifications through the year) and we're now on 13 which was released last Sunday. The full revision history is available.

The changes to classifications to our database for hills in the Lake District are as follows. Of particular note is that we are now recording the hills which are Furths. These are hills over 3000ft in England and Wales1 and all the ones in England are in the Lake District.

Skiddaw
The summit of Skiddaw

SkiddawUpdatednow also a Furth
Scafell PikeUpdatednow also a Furth
ScafellUpdatednow also a Furth
Ill CragUpdatednow also a Furth
Broad CragUpdatednow also a Furth
HelvellynUpdatednow also a Furth
Wether HillUpdatedno longer a Nuttall
now also a deleted Nuttall
Whatshaw CommonUpdatednow also a 490-499m with 30m drop
Gowbarrow Fell (Wainwright summit)Updatedno longer a sub HuMP
Wether HillUpdatedno longer a On other list
now also a Nuttall
Common FellUpdatedno longer a sub Dewey

You can find details of all the changes throughout Great Britain here and as usual your bagging lists will have been automatically updated as appropriate.

  1. Furths also include hills over 3000ft in Ireland, although our version of the database doesn't include those.

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