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Corbett
Goat Fell is the highest point on the Isle of Arran, and the Corbett with the greatest prominence
Highest point
Elevation	2,500–3,000 ft (762.0–914.4 m)
Prominence	over 500 ft (152.4 m)
Geography
Location	222 Scotland

This is a list of Corbett mountains in Scotland by height. Corbetts are defined as Scottish mountains between 2,500–3,000 feet (762.0–914.4 m) in height with a prominence of at least 500 feet (152.4 m); solely imperial measurement thresholds.

The first list was compiled in the 1920s by John Rooke Corbett, a Bristol-based climber and Scottish Mountaineering Club ("SMC") member, and was published posthumously, after his sister passed it to the SMC, in the 1953 edition of Munro's Tables. Corbetts are the next category down from the Munros and Munro Tops in terms of height (i.e. below the elevation threshold of 3,000 ft or 914.4 m), but their explicit prominence threshold of 500 feet (152 m), ensure they are material peaks. By definition, all Corbetts, given their prominence, are Marilyns. The SMC keeps a list of Corbetts.

As of October 2018, there were 222 Corbetts in Scotland. 21 of these 222 Corbetts have a prominence that exceeds the P600 threshold of 600 metres (1,969 ft), which would class them as "Majors". The highest Corbett, Beinn a' Chlaidheimh, at 914 metres (2,999 ft) is just below the threshold for a Munro, a status it held until it was demoted in 2012 based on new surveys; it ranks as the 478th highest mountain in the British Isles, on the Simms classification. The Corbett with the greatest prominence is Goat Fell at 874 metres (2,867 ft), which ranks it as the 16th most prominent mountain in the British Isles.

Climbers who climb all of the Corbetts are called Corbetteers, with the first being John Corbett himself who completed them in 1943. The second completion was by William McKnight Docharty in May 1960. A list of Corbetteers is maintained, which as of July 2018, totalled 678.

Corbett mountains by height

This list was downloaded from the Database of British and Irish Hills ("DoBIH") in September 2020, and are peaks the DoBIH marks as being Corbetts ("C"). The SMC updates their list of official Corbetts from time to time, and the DoBIH also updates their measurements as more detailed surveys are recorded, so these tables should not be amended or updated unless the entire DoBIH data is re-downloaded again.

Bibliography

• G.Scott Johnstone; Donald J. Bennet; Hamish M. Brown; Rob Milne (2002). The Corbetts and Other Scottish Hills. Scottish Mountaineering Club. ISBN 978-0907521716.
• Alan Dawson; Dave Hewitt (1999). Corbett Tops and Corbetteers (TACit Tables). TACit Press. ISBN 978-0953437610.

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

Prefixes: *s sub; *x deleted

Suffixes: = twin

See also

• Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles
• List of mountains of the British Isles by height
• Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles
• Lists of mountains in Ireland
• List of Munro mountains
• List of Murdo mountains
• List of Furth mountains in the British Isles
• List of Marilyns in the British Isles
• List of P600 mountains in the British Isles

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. ^ "Corbetts". Scottish Mountaineering Club. 2018. The list of all peaks in Scotland with a height of 2500ft (762m) or more and less than 3000ft (914.4m) with a drop of at least 500ft (152.4m) between each peak and any higher land. The Corbetts are more clearly defined than is the case with the Munros, only the aforementioned rules and sufficiently detailed topographic data are necessary to reproduce the list of hills in the set. John Rooke Corbett was a district valuer based in Bristol and a keen member of the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) in the years between the two World Wars. When Corbett died, his list was passed to the SMC by his sister. As has been the case with the Munros, the list of Corbetts has changed over the years as a result of changes in hill and bealach heights recognised by the Ordnance Survey. There are currently 222 Corbetts.
2. ^ Alan Dawson (July 1999). "Corbett Tops and Corbetters". The Relative Hills of Britain (rhb.org.uk).
3. Alan Dawson; Dave Hewitt (1999). Corbett Tops and Corbetteers (TACit Tables). TACit Press. ISBN 978-0953437610.
4. Bearhop, D.A. (1997). Munro's Tables. Scottish Mountaineering Club & Trust. ISBN 0-907521-53-3.
5. "The Corbets". HillBaggingUK. 2018. A Corbett is "a Scottish hill between 2500 and 2999 feet high with a drop of at least 500 feet (152.4m) on all sides". They are named after the list's compiler, J.Rooke Corbett. The Corbetts are a subset of the Marilyns.
6. ^ Chris Cocker; Graham Jackson (2018). "The Corbetts 1953-2016". Database of British and Irish Hills.
7. "Munro demoted as it fails to hit heights". The Herald of Scotland. 8 September 2012. Beinn a' Chlaidheimh was found to be just under the 3000ft required for a Munro. The society said any re-classification decision would be made by the Scottish Mountaineering Club which issues the tables listing Scotland's Munros. The club has now listed it as a Corbett.
8. ^ Dave Hewitt (July 2018). "Known corbetteers as of July 2018". Corbetts are Scottish hills between 762 metres and 914 metres high (2500-2999 feet), with a drop of 500 feet (152.4 metres) or more all round. Currently, there are 222 of them. Current Corbetteers: 678
9. Clerk of the List (October 2018). "Compleators". Scottish Mountaineering Club. The SMC hold a record of Munros, Corbetts, Grahams and Donalds compleators.
10. 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.
11. "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
12. "Background to the lists". Database of British and Irish Hills. 2 August 2018.
13. "Classification". Database of British and Irish Hills. 3 August 2018.
14. "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

v t e Mountains and hills of Great Britain and Ireland
British Isles	P600s Marilyns Fell Mountains by height by prominence (Simms classification)
Scotland	Mountains and hills Munros Murdos Corbetts Grahams Donalds
Outside Scotland	Furths Hewitts Nuttalls England Wales
England	Birketts Ethels Wainwrights
Ireland	Mountains in Ireland Vandeleur-Lynams Arderins MountainViews
County tops	England and Wales (1964) England (ceremonial) Wales (local government areas) Scotland counties council areas Northern Ireland counties districts Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland county and provincial tops

• Lists of mountains and hills of Scotland
• Corbetts