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 Lake District National Park in Cumbria which are over 1,000 feet (304.8 m) in height.[2][3]

Birketts
Pillar Rock in the Lake District National Park is the only Birkett that requires ropes to climb.[1]
Highest point
Elevation	over 1,000 ft (304.8 m)
Prominence	no specific formula
Geography
Location	541 Lake District Birketts : 209 of the 214 Wainwrights : 59 of the 116 Outlying Fells

Bill Birkett's book became a popular list for peak bagging in the Lake District, along with the more popular Wainwrights.[4] 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 Scottish lowlands, Donalds. The Long Distance Walkers Association maintains a register of people who have completed the Birketts.[5] 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.[1]

There are 541 Birketts, which include 209 of the 214 Wainwrights, and 59 of the 116 Wainwright Outlying Fells.[6][7] Birketts range from hills, such as the smallest Birkett, Great Stickle, at 1,001 feet (305.1 m), to major mountains in the British Isles, such as Scafell Pike, at just over 3,209 feet (978.1 m).[7] While 65 of the Birketts have a prominence above 150 metres (492.1 ft), and are Marilyns, 159 have a prominence below 15 metres (49.2 ft), and 42 of these are below 5 metres (16.4 ft).[7] 54 of the 514 peaks are solely Birketts, and meet no other mountain or hill classification in the British Isles.[7]

Birketts by height

This list is from the Database of British and Irish Hills ("DoBIH") in October 2018, and are peaks the DoBIH marks as being Birketts ("B").[lower-alpha 1][10] 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 ("DoBIH") in October 2018, and are five Lake District peaks the DoBIH marks as being Wainwrights ("W"), but not Birketts ("B").[lower-alpha 1] 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.

Bibliography

• Bill Birkett (2002). Complete Lakeland Fells: Over 120 Classic Walks to all Fell Tops. 978-0007136292. ISBN 978-0007136292.
• Bill Birkett (1997). The Lakeland Fells Almanac. Neil Wilson Publishing. ISBN 978-1897784594.
• Bill Birkett (1994). Complete Lakeland Fells. Carnival. ISBN 978-0583333672.

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:[11][12]

suffixes:
= twin

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fells of the Lake District.

• List of mountains of the British Isles by height
• List of mountains of the British Isles by prominence
• Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles
• List of Wainwrights in the Lake District
• List of hill passes of the Lake District
• The Outlying Fells of Lakeland

Notes

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