Current County Tops  

 

The list contains all the highest points of the current counties of England including the metropolitan counties, which although no
longer officially in existence are still used for statistical information. In the table below they are identified by the initials MC.

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.

 

County Top Height
(M)
Grid Reference
Cumbria Scafell Pike 978 NY 215 072
Northumberland The Cheviot 815 NT 909 205
Durham Mickle Fell 788 NY 806 245
North Yorkshire Whernside 736 SD 739 814
Derbyshire Kinder Scout 636 SK 085 875
Lancashire Green Hill 628 SD 702 820
Lancashire Gragareth 627 SD 687 792
Devon High Willhays 621 SX 580 892
West Yorkshire (MC) Black Hill 582 SE 078 047
Cheshire Shining Tor 559 SJ 995 737
South Yorkshire (MC) High Stones, Howden Edge 550 SK 188 944
South Yorkshire (MC) Margery Hill 546 SK 189 957
Greater Manchester (MC) Black Chew Head 542 SE 056 020
Shropshire Brown Clee Hill 540 SO 594 866
Staffordshire Cheeks Hill 520 SK 026 699
Somerset Dunkery Beacon 519 SS 891 416
Worcestershire Worcestershire Beacon 425 SO 769 452
Cornwall & The Isles of Scilly Brown Willy 420 SX 159 800
Gloucestershire Cleeve Hill 330 SO 997 246
Wiltshire Milk Hill 295 SU 104 643
Surrey Leith Hill 294 TQ 139 432
Hampshire Pilot Hill 286 SU 399 601
West Sussex Black Down 280 SU 919 296
Dorset Lewesdon Hill 279 ST434 012
Leicestershire Bardon Hill 278 SK 460 132
Dorset Pilsdon Pen 277 ST 413 011
West Midlands (MC) Turner's Hill 270 SO 967 887
Buckinghamshire Haddington Hill 267 SP 891 091
Warwickshire Ebrington Hill 261 SP 188 426
Oxfordshire Whitehorse Hill 261 SU 301 864
Tyne & Wear (MC) Currock Hill 259 NZ 107 592
Kent Betsoms Hill 251 TQ 436 563
East Sussex Ditchling Beacon 248 TQ 332 131
Greater London (MC) Westerham Heights 245 TQ 436 565
Hertfordshire Pavis Wood 244 SP 914 092
Bedfordshire Dunstable Downs 243 TL 009 194
Northamptonshire Arbury Hill 225 SP 540 588
Nottinghamshire Silverhill 205 SK 471 621
Nottinghamshire Newtonwood Lane 204 SK 456 606
Merseyside (MC) Billinge Hill 179 SD 525 014
Lincolnshire Normanby Top, The Wolds 168 TF 121 965
Essex Chrishall Common 147 TL 443 362
Cambridgeshire Great Chishill 146 TL 427 386
Suffolk Great Wood 128 TL 787 559
Norfolk Beacon Hill 102 TG 184 414

 

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