1974 County Tops  

 

The list contains the highest points in the administrative counties of England, which were the result of
 administrative changes in 1974 and lasted until the Local Government Reorganisation of the 1990’s.

Click on the county or top in blue to see summit details and pictures within the Peak District.

Click on the county or top in green to see summit details and pictures in other areas.

 

1974 County County Top Height (M) Grid Reference
Avon Niver Hill 264 ST 565 539
Bedfordshire Dunstable Downs 243 TL 009 194
Berkshire Walbury Hill 297 SU 373 616
Buckinghamshire Haddington Hill 267 SP 891 091
Cambridgeshire Great Chishill 146 TL 427 386
Cheshire Shining Tor 559 SJ 995 737
Cleveland Gisborough Moor 328 NZ 634 123
Cornwall Brown Willy 420 SX 158 800
Cumbria Scafell Pike 978 NY 215 072
Derbyshire Kinder Scout 636 SK 085 875
Devon High Willhays 621 SX 580 892
Dorset Pilsdon Pen 277 ST 413 011
Durham Mickle Fell 788 NY 806 245
East Sussex Ditchling Beacon 248 TQ 332 131
Essex Chrishall Common 147 TL 443 362
Gloucestershire Cleeve Hill 330 SO 997 246
Greater Manchester Black Chew Head 542 SE 056 020
Hampshire Pilot Hill 286 SU 399 601
Hereford & Worcester Black Mountain 700 SO 256 351
Hertfordshire Pavis Wood 244 SP 914 092
Humberside Bishop Wilton Wold 246 SE 822 570
Isle of Wight St Boniface Down 241 SZ 569 785
Kent Betsoms Hill 251 TQ 436 563
Lancashire Green Hill 628 SD 702 820
Leicestershire Bardon Hill 278 SK 460 132
Lincolnshire Normanby Top, The Wolds 168 TF 121 965
London Botley Hill 255 TQ 407 562
Merseyside Billinge Hill 179 SD 526 014
Norfolk Beacon Hill 102 TG 184 414
North Yorkshire Whernside 736 SD 738 814
Northamptonshire Arbury Hill 225 SP 540 588
Northumberland The Cheviot 815 NT 909 205
Nottinghamshire Siverhill 205 SK 471 621
Nottinghamshire Newtonwood Lane 204 SK 456 606
Oxfordshire Whitehorse Hill 261 SU 301 864
Shropshire Brown Clee Hill 540 SO 593 866
Somerset Dunkery Beacon 519 SS 891 416
South Yorkshire High Stones, Howden Edge 550 SK 188 944
Staffordshire Cheeks Hill 520 SK 026 699
Suffolk Great Wood 128 TL 787 559
Surrey Leith Hill 294 TQ 139 432
Tyne & Wear Currock Hill 259 NZ 107 592
Warwickshire Ebrington Hill 261 SP 188 426
West Midlands Turner's Hill 271 SO 967 887
West Sussex Black Down 280 SU 919 296
West Yorkshire Black Hill 582 SE 078 047
Wiltshire Milk Hill 295 SU 104 643

 

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