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Birketts
Pillar Rock in the Lake District National Park is the only Birkett that requires ropes to climb.
Highest point
Elevation	over 1,000 ft (304.8 m)
Prominence	no specific formula
Geography
Location	541 Lake District Birketts : 209 of the 214 Wainwrights : 59 of the 116 Outlying Fells

Birketts are the 541 English peaks described in Bill Birkett's 1994 guidebook, Complete Lakeland Fells. The author defined them as all hills within the boundary of the Lake District National Park in Cumbria which are over 1,000 feet (304.8 m) in height.

Bill Birkett's book became a popular list for peak bagging in the Lake District, along with the more popular Wainwrights. Because both lists are based on historical books, unlike for example the Murdos, their constituents remain fixed, regardless of revisions to height or other metrics. In this regard, they are similar to the Scottish lowlands, Donalds. The Long Distance Walkers Association maintains a register of people who have completed the Birketts. One of Birkett's peaks, Pillar Rock, which is also classed as a Nuttall, but not a Wainwright, requires climbing ropes and climbing equipment to summit.

There are 541 Birketts, which include 211 of the 214 Wainwrights, and 59 of the 116 Wainwright Outlying Fells. Birketts range from hills, such as the smallest Birkett, Great Stickle, at 1,001 feet (305.1 m), to major mountains in the British Isles, such as Scafell Pike, at just over 3,209 feet (978.1 m). While 65 of the Birketts have a prominence above 150 metres (492.1 ft), and are Marilyns, 159 have a prominence below 15 metres (49.2 ft), and 42 of these are below 5 metres (16.4 ft). 54 of the 514 peaks are solely Birketts, and meet no other mountain or hill classification in the British Isles.

Birketts by height

This list is from the Database of British and Irish Hills ("DoBIH") in October 2018, and are peaks the DoBIH marks as being Birketts ("B"). The DoBIH updates their measurements as more surveys are recorded, so these tables should not be amended or updated unless the entire DoBIH data is re–downloaded again.

Wainwrights that are not Birketts

This list is from the Database of British and Irish Hills ("DoBIH") in October 2018, and are five Lake District peaks the DoBIH marks as being Wainwrights ("W"), but not Birketts ("B"). The DoBIH updates their measurements as more surveys are recorded, so these tables should not be amended or updated unless the entire DoBIH data is re-downloaded again.

Bibliography

• Bill Birkett (2002). Complete Lakeland Fells: Over 120 Classic Walks to all Fell Tops. 978-0007136292. ISBN 978-0007136292.
• Bill Birkett (1997). The Lakeland Fells Almanac. Neil Wilson Publishing. ISBN 978-1897784594.
• Bill Birkett (1994). Complete Lakeland Fells. Carnival. ISBN 978-0583333672.

DoBIH codes

The DoBIH uses the following codes for the various classifications of mountains and hills in the British Isles, which many of the above peaks also fall into:

• Ma Marilyn
• Hu HuMP
• Sim Simm
• 5 Dodd
• M Munro
• MT Munro Top
• F Furth
• C Corbett
• G Graham
• D Donald
• DT Donald Top
• Hew Hewitt
• N Nuttall
• Dew Dewey
• DDew Donald Dewey
• HF Highland Five
• 4 400-499m Tump
• 3 300-399m Tump (GB)
• 2 200-299m Tump (GB)
• 1 100-199m Tump (GB)
• 0 0-99m Tump (GB)
• W Wainwright
• WO Wainwright Outlying Fell
• B Birkett
• Sy Synge
• Fel Fellranger
• CoH County Top – Historic (pre-1974)
• CoA County Top – Administrative (1974 to mid-1990s)
• CoU County Top – Current County or Unitary Authority
• CoL County Top – Current London Borough
• SIB Significant Island of Britain
• Dil Dillon
• A Arderin
• VL Vandeleur-Lynam
• MDew Myrddyn Dewey
• O Other list (which includes):
  • Bin Binnion
  • Bg Bridge
  • BL Buxton & Lewis
  • Ca Carn
  • CT Corbett Top
  • GT Graham Top
  • Mur Murdo
  • P500 P500
  • P600 P600
• Un unclassified

• s sub
• x deleted

suffixes:
= twin

See also

• List of mountains of the British Isles by height
• List of mountains of the British Isles by prominence
• Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles
• List of Wainwrights in the Lake District
• List of hill passes of the Lake District
• The Outlying Fells of Lakeland

Notes

1. ^ The Database of British and Irish Hills ("DoBIH") is the most referenced database for the classification of peaks in the British Isles, and the DoBIH is licensed under a "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License".

References

1. ^ "Pillar Rock". HillBaggingUK. Pillar Rock, qualifying as a separate summit to Pillar (Lake District) itself in the Nuttalls and other lists , is the bane of summit baggers everywhere. Wainwright says that, to walkers "Pillar Rock is positively out of bounds. Don't even try to get a foothold on it". It's graded as a "moderate" rock climb.
2. "The Birketts". HillBaggingUK. 2018. The Birketts are all the Lake District hills over 1,000ft as listed in Bill Birkett's Complete Lakeland Fells.
3. Bill Birkett (1994). Complete Lakeland Fells. Carnival. ISBN 978-0583333672.
4. "Database Notes". Database of British and Irish Hills. 2018. Such is the popularity of the English Lake District that a number of lists have emerged specifically for that region. The best known is the Wainwrights, which was almost certainly not conceived as a list. The Birketts is a more recent listing of Lake District Hills. The Wainwright Outlying Fells and the Birketts were each published as a set of walks rather than a list, but as with the Wainwrights, a tradition of climbing them has developed.
5. "Hillwalkers' Register". Long Distance Walkers Association. 2018.
6. "Wainwrights and Wainwright Outer Fells". HillBaggingUK. 2018. The Wainwrights: The Wainwrights are a list of hills appearing in the seven volumes of Alfred Wainwright's Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells; the list is subjective – some of the hills are not summits at all – just prominent points at the end of a ridge or spur from a higher mountain.
   The Outlying Fells: Wainwright produced an additional volume entitled The Outlying Fells of Lakelands.
7. ^ "Birketts". Database of British and Irish Hills. 2018.
8. Jackson, Mark. "More Relative Hills of Britain" (PDF). Relative Hills of Britain. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
9. "Copyright". Database of British and Irish Hills. 3 August 2018. We place no restrictions on use of the data by third parties and encourage authors of other websites and applications to do so. We just ask users to observe the terms of the Creative Commons license
10. "Background to the lists". Database of British and Irish Hills. 2 August 2018.
11. "Classification". Database of British and Irish Hills. 3 August 2018.
12. "Welcome to the online version of the Database of British and Irish Hills (DoBIH)". HillBagging. Retrieved 8 November 2018.

External links

• The Database of British and Irish Hills (DoBIH), the largest database of British Isles mountains
• Hill Bagging UK & Ireland, the searchable interface for the DoBIH
• The Relative Hills of Britain, a website dedicated to mountain and hill classification

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