This page shows all my English County Tops (Historic) walks. The list is sorted in date order, with the most recent walk at the top of the page. You can get a rough idea of how easy or difficult the walk is likely to be from the distance and height gain numbers on the walk. Click on the walk name to get more information for that walk, including a dynamic OS map and a downloadable GPX file for your GPS device.
This list details the highest point within (or sometimes on) the boundary of each county. However, county boundaries change over time and there are different county lists, covering the traditional historic counties and the more recent mixtures of administrative areas.
I have decided to concentrate on the Historic County Tops, which is a smaller number for one thing, but it's also the list most appropriate to my age. The historic county tops is a traditional list of counties from which people usually take their local cultural identity. In the UK they were never abolished, they just ceased to have administrative function.
Date | Walk name | Dist | Ascent | Region | County Tops (Historic) on this walk | GPX |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2020-08-08 | Kinder Summit via Cluther Rocks | 9.2 m | 1900 ft | Peak District | Kinder Scout | |
2020-06-20 | Shining Tor and Cheeks Hill | 10.3 m | 1700 ft | Peak District | Cheeks Hill | |
2016-06-21 | Burnhope Seat | 14.7 m | 1900 ft | Northern Pennines | Burnhope Seat - Trig Point | |
2015-05-23 | Mickle Fell | 14.6 m | 2800 ft | Northern Pennines | Mickle Fell | |
2015-04-02 | Horton to Sedbergh | 22.6 m | 3900 ft | Yorkshire Dales | Whernside | |
2013-09-14 | Kinder via Grinds Brook | 10.3 m | 1900 ft | Peak District | Kinder Scout | |
2013-09-08 | Red Ratcher to Marsden | 8.2 m | 1000 ft | Peak District | Black Hill | |
2013-07-31 | Whernside | 12.0 m | 2300 ft | Yorkshire Dales | Whernside | |
2013-07-21 | Burbage Edge to Cat & Fiddle | 6.8 m | 1000 ft | Peak District | Cheeks Hill | |
2013-07-13 | Ashley Down to Thorn Down | 12.6 m | 1000 ft | Southern England | Walbury Hill, Pilot Hill | |
2013-04-19 | Shining Tor & Cheeks Hill | 14.1 m | 2000 ft | Peak District | Cheeks Hill | |
2012-07-15 | Whernside | 8.0 m | 1700 ft | Yorkshire Dales | Whernside | |
2012-04-14 | Ingleborough & Whernside | 15.6 m | 3700 ft | Yorkshire Dales | Whernside | |
2011-11-06 | Shining Tor & Cheeks Hill | 10.5 m | 1700 ft | Peak District | Cheeks Hill | |
2011-08-20 | Stanway to Cleeve Hill | 13.0 m | 1800 ft | Cotswolds | Cleeve Hill | |
2011-07-09 | Chipping Campden to Stanway | 12.0 m | 1600 ft | Cotswolds | Ebrington Hill | |
2011-05-28 | Buckmoorend to Ivinghoe Beacon | 16.0 m | 1800 ft | Southern England | Pavis Wood | |
2011-03-12 | Whernside | 11.0 m | 1800 ft | Yorkshire Dales | Whernside | |
2010-07-24 | Malvern Hills | 9.0 m | 2600 ft | Midlands | Worcestershire Beacon | |
2010-05-06 | Crowden to Standedge | 14.0 m | 2700 ft | Peak District | Black Hill | |
2010-03-12 | High Willhays | 5.5 m | 1400 ft | Dartmoor | High Willhays | |
2010-03-12 | Dunkery Beacon | 1.5 m | 500 ft | Exmoor | Dunkery Beacon | |
2010-03-11 | Brown Willy | 6.0 m | 1400 ft | Bodmin Moor | Brown Willy | |
2010-02-06 | Whernside | 12.0 m | 2200 ft | Yorkshire Dales | Whernside | |
2009-04-18 | Coniston Old Man | 10.0 m | 3800 ft | Lake District | The Old Man of Coniston [Coniston Old Man] | |
2008-09-20 | Helvellyn via Grisedale | 11.5 m | 3400 ft | Lake District | Helvellyn | |
2008-07-27 | Scafell Pike | 11.0 m | 3400 ft | Lake District | Scafell Pike | |
2008-07-12 | Helvellyn & Raise | 10.0 m | 3400 ft | Lake District | Helvellyn | |
2008-06-14 | Yorkshire 3 Peaks | 24.0 m | 5300 ft | Yorkshire Dales | Whernside | |
2008-02-23 | Black Hill & Black Chew Head | 10.5 m | 1800 ft | Peak District | Black Hill | |
2007-12-15 | Dow Crag & Coniston Old Man | 8.5 m | 2900 ft | Lake District | The Old Man of Coniston [Coniston Old Man] | |
2007-11-17 | Whernside | 8.0 m | 1700 ft | Yorkshire Dales | Whernside | |
2007-11-03 | Shining Tor & Axe Edge | 12.0 m | 2100 ft | Peak District | Cheeks Hill | |
2007-03-30 | Shining Tor & Axe Edge | 12.5 m | 2100 ft | Cheshire | Cheeks Hill | |
2005-07-24 | Coniston Old Man | 7.5 m | 2600 ft | Lake District | The Old Man of Coniston [Coniston Old Man] |