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How many hills are there in Britain? Has anyone climbed them all? Where is there for hill walkers to go in the south of England? What is a hill anyway? The answers to these and other questions will be found in The Relative Hills of Britain.
The Relative Hills of Britain dispenses with the common assumption that a hill must be at least 2000ft high to be worth climbing. Instead it concentrates on listing all the hills that are relatively high compared to the surrounding land, rather than compared to sea level. This approach leads to some interesting results: for example, the highest points in the Cotswolds and Chilterns, Campsies and Quantocks are all included, as well as the main summits on numerous Scottish islands, whereas well-known mountain summits such as Cairn Gorm, Bowfell and Carnedd Dafydd do not qualify.
As well as being an invaluable reference work for all walkers, The Relative Hills of Britain contains a fascinating collection of not too serious facts and figures about the Marilyns, as these relative hills have been called. The book is illustrated by a set of photographs and a large number of very clear maps, which make it easy to locate all the hills in each region.
Chapter 1 Mountains, Munros and Marilyns
Chapter 2 The Challenge of the Marilyns
Chapter 3 The Marilyns by Region
Region 1 Firth of Clyde to Strath Tay
Region 2 Loch Rannoch to Loch Tay
Region 3 Loch Leven to Connel Bridge and Glen Lochy
Region 4 Fort William to Loch Ericht
Region 5 Loch Ericht to Glen Tromie and Glen Garry
Region 6 Forest of Atholl to Braemar and Blairgowrie
Region 7 Braemar to Montrose
Region 8 The Cairngorms
Region 9 Spean Bridge to Elgin
Region 10 Glen Shiel to Glenfinnan
Region 11 Loch Duich to Loch Ness, South of Loch Mullardoch
Region 12 Kyle of Lochalsh to Inverness, North of Loch Mullardoch
Region 13 Loch Carron to Loch Maree
Region 14 Loch Maree to Loch Broom and Garve
Region 15 Ullapool to Moray Firth
Region 16 The Far North
Region 17 Skye, Rhum, Mull and Nearby Islands
Region 18 Ardnamurchan to Loch Linnhe
Region 19 Oban to Dunoon and the Mull of Kintyre
Region 20 Jura, Islay, Arran and Nearby Islands
Region 21 Strathspey to Aberdeen
Region 22 Shetland Islands
Region 23 Orkney Islands
Region 24 Western Isles
Region 25 St Kilda
Region 26 Central Scotland from Dumbarton to Montrose
Region 27 South-West Scotland
Region 28 Firth of Forth to the English Border
Region 29 Isle of Man
Region 30 North Wales
Region 31 Mid Wales and Pembrokeshire
Region 32 South Wales
Region 33 The Scottish Border to the River Tyne
Region 34 The Lake District
Region 35 The Northern and Central Pennines
Region 36 Lancashire, Cheshire and the Southern Pennines
Region 37 The River Tees to The Wash
Region 38 The Welsh Borders
Region 39 Central and Eastern England
Region 40 Cornwall and Devon
Region 41 South Central England
Region 42 South-East England and the Isle of Wight
Chapter 4 The Marilyns by Height
Chapter 5 The Absolute Summits of England and Wales
Chapter 6 The County Tops
Chapter 7 Hill Walking by Numbers
Chapter 8 Further Reading
