Time to continue with my series of posts discussing the classifications of the mountain of the UK, so lets take a look at the Hewitts…
The list of mountains known Hewitts were created by Alan Dawson across three books in 97/98, with each volume discussing the peaks of a different country, England, Wales and Ireland.
Definition of a Hewitt?
The list was created as an alternative to the Nuttalls, with the definition that a peak must be over two thousand feet but also with a prominence of 30m (97ft) rather than the sorter 15m of the original Nuttalls list.
This comes from the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation ( or UIAA, in French, Union internationale des associations d’alpinisme) setting this as an independent peak.
How many Hewitt summits are there?
In total there are 524 Hewitt summits in the British Isles, with 180 England, 135 Wales and 209 Ireland the latter of which were missing from the original Nuttall list.
How many Hewitt have I ticked off
So far I’ve ticked of 38 of Hewitts summits across England and Wales with some of my favourites being five that are pictured above from the Coledale Circular in the Lake District.
Are you on a mission to bag Hewitts I would love to hear your favourites and overall progress through the huge list, and like the other various lists of mountains classifications you can download a spread sheet including all the summit below.
Hewitts Tick list
And if anyone is as geeky as me and likes spreadsheets with tick lists to track your bagging. You can download the document below which contains all 524 of the summits.
A whole lot of mountains
There is a lot of different mountain classifications the spreadsheet below contains tick lists for the Peak District Ethels, the Nuttalls of England and Wales, Hewitts, P600s, Marilyns, Munros and Corbetts.