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Birketts are the 541 English peaks described in Bill Birkett's 1994 guidebook, ''Complete Lakeland Fells''. The author defined them as all hills within the boundary of the
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in
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which are over in height. Bill Birkett's book became a popular list for
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in the Lake District, along with the more popular
Wainwrights Wainwrights are the 214 English peaks (known locally as '' fells'') described in Alfred Wainwright's seven-volume '' Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells'' (1955–66). They all lie within the boundary of the Lake District National Park in Cu ...
. Because both lists are based on historical books, unlike for example the Murdos, their constituents remain fixed, regardless of revisions to height or other metrics. In this regard, they are similar to the
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, Donalds. The
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maintains a register of people who have completed the Birketts. One of Birkett's peaks, Pillar Rock, which is also classed as a Nuttall, but not a Wainwright, requires climbing ropes and climbing equipment to summit. There are 541 Birketts, which include 211 of the 214 Wainwrights, and 59 of the 116 Wainwright Outlying Fells. Birketts range from hills, such as the smallest Birkett, Great Stickle, at , to major mountains in the British Isles, such as
Scafell Pike Scafell Pike () is a mountain in the Lake District region of Cumbria, England. It has an elevation of above sea level, making it the highest and the most prominent mountain in England. The mountain is part of the Scafell massif, an extinct v ...
, at just over . While 65 of the Birketts have a prominence above , and are Marilyns, 159 have a prominence below , and 42 of these are below . 54 of the 514 peaks are solely Birketts, and meet no other mountain or hill classification in the British Isles.


Birketts by height

This list is from the ''
Database of British and Irish Hills The mountains and hills of the British Isles are categorised into various lists based on different combinations of elevation, prominence, and other criteria such as isolation. These lists are used for peak bagging, whereby hillwalkers attempt ...
'' ("DoBIH") in October 2018, and are peaks the DoBIH marks as being Birketts ("B"). The DoBIH updates their measurements as more surveys are recorded, so these tables should not be amended or updated unless the entire DoBIH data is re–downloaded again.


Wainwrights that are not Birketts

This list is from the ''
Database of British and Irish Hills The mountains and hills of the British Isles are categorised into various lists based on different combinations of elevation, prominence, and other criteria such as isolation. These lists are used for peak bagging, whereby hillwalkers attempt ...
'' ("DoBIH") in October 2018, and are five
Lake District The Lake District, also known as ''the Lakes'' or ''Lakeland'', is a mountainous region and National parks of the United Kingdom, national park in Cumbria, North West England. It is famous for its landscape, including its lakes, coast, and mou ...
peaks the DoBIH marks as being Wainwrights ("W"), but not Birketts ("B"). The DoBIH updates their measurements as more surveys are recorded, so these tables should not be amended or updated unless the entire DoBIH data is re-downloaded again.


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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:
suffixes:
= twin


See also

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List of mountains of the British Isles by height This article provides access to lists of mountains in Britain and Ireland by height and by prominence. (See Lists of mountains below.) Height and prominence are the most important metrics for the classifications of mountains by the UIAA; with ...
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List of mountains of the British Isles by prominence A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...
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Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles The mountains and hills of the British Isles are categorised into various lists based on different combinations of elevation, topographic prominence, prominence, and other criteria such as topographic isolation, isolation. These lists are used f ...
* List of Wainwrights in the Lake District *
List of hill passes of the Lake District Hill passes of the Lake District were originally used by people in one valley travelling to another nearby without having to go many miles around a steep ridge of intervening hills. Historically, in the Lake District of northwest England, trave ...
*'' The Outlying Fells of Lakeland''


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References


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 {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Birketts in the Lake District Birketts * Birketts