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WelcomeThis website was created 13 years ago as Statistical Topics in Hillwalking for those interested in statistics and statistical topics pertaining to the British hills and mountains: measurement, classification, lists and data. Nowadays its main function is to provide a home for the Database of British and Irish Hills. The DoBIH, formerly the Database of British Hills and sometimes called simply The Hills Database, was founded by Graham Jackson and myself in 2001 and is widely regarded as the most authoritative source of hill data on the web. It is maintained by a team of six, who keep the database up to date and periodically bring out updates.The DoBIH is offered as a downloadable database on this site, and as an online database at www.hill-bagging.co.uk. Both formats offer logging facilities and a facility for transferring personal ascent records from one to the other. Ancillary resources are divided between the sites. The main documentation is the Database Notes on this site, which also carries the revision history and a number of tables showing changes to the lists over time. Survey reports and the change control database are on hill-bagging. The majority of bagging websites use data from the DoBIH, though not always from the latest release. Current release: v13.1 6 April 2013 We regularly survey hills to accurately measure height, drop or location. Our surveys are carried out to professional standards and data are accepted by Ordnance Survey. Well-publicised survey results include the reclassifications of Sgurr nan Ceannaichean and Beinn a'Chlaidheimh from Munro to Corbett, and the addition of two 2000ft summits, Mynydd Graig Goch in Wales and Thack Moor in England. Chris Crocker
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surveying Wild Boar Fell
"I've got a clear shot, do I take him down?" |
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Updated 10 June 2013
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visits since October 1999 |
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