Not many links live yet, but that will change.
As time goes on I’ll add to it with some notes about ascents of the 2000ft hills (Hewitts) of England as I race against time to fill the gaps. Well you would be racing if you were born in 1951 and there were loads still to go and 2020 was a write-off.
Carousel pics: Ingleborough from Fountains Fell; The Cheviot; the Ill Bell ridge from Caudle Moor; Blencathra from Great Lingy Hut
There are 179 English Hewitts in total, and they fall into six geographical groups, three smaller and three larger. So far I’ve climbed about a third of them.
In southern England there’s just one, High Willhays on Dartmoor. I climbed it on the Devon stage of my cross-England walk, and again in 2019 on a two-night backpacking preparation for the 2019 Great Outdoors Challenge.
There are two in the Peak District, Kinder Scout and Bleaklow Head. I climbed these often in the 1970s, but most recently revisited the latter on the Peak District stage of my cross-England walk.
That leaves four groups. One is the Lake District, so large that I’ve subdivided it here, based on Wainwright’s geographical classification. Grey links aren’t live yet; note that the Central Fells still have to be added to the ‘Central and Northern’ Page.
The other three groups are the Cheviots in Northumberland – just six Hewitts, but I’ve climbed them all – the Northern Pennines, which include the mighty Cross Fell – and the varied hills of the Yorkshire Dales. Grey links aren’t live yet.
