Current Unitary Authority Tops  

 

The two lists below contain the highest points in Unitary and ‘Quasi’ Unitary Authorities of England. 

The 1972 Government Act means that legally Unitary Authorities in England are counties although many of them
are treated as districts. The ‘Quasi’ Unitary Authorities came into existence in April 1986 when the Greater
London Council and the Metropolitan County Councils were abolished.

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.

 

Unitary Authority Top Height (M) Grid Reference
Herefordshire Black Mountain 700 SO 256 351
Blackburn with Darwen Winter Hill 456 SD 660 149
Telford & Wrekin The Wrekin 407 SJ 628 081
Redcar & Cleveland Gisborough Moor 328 NZ 634 123
West Berkshire Walbury Hill 297 SU 373 616
Swindon Liddington Castle 277 SU 210 798
Bath  & North East Somerset Niver Hill 264 ST 565 539
Stoke-on-Trent Meir Heath 250 SJ 928 403
East Riding of Yorkshire Bishop Wilton Wold 246 SE 822 570
Isle of Wight St Boniface Down 241 SZ 569 785
North Somerset Blagdon Hill Farm 240 ST 504 578
South Gloucestershire Hanging Hill 237 ST 717 703
Darlington Dere Street 218 NZ 206 246
Rutland Cold Overton Park 197 SK 827 085
Torbay Beacon Hill 196 SX 858 620
Brighton & Hove Bullock Hill 195 TQ 367 063
Brighton & Hove West Hill 195 TQ 279 115
Luton Whitehill, Butterfield Green 178 TL 105 253
Milton Keynes Bow Brickhill 171 SP 915 345
Medway Holly Hill 170 TQ 672 634
Bristol Dundry Hill East 160 ST 593 668
Plymouth Roborough/Woolwell 160 SX 505 616
Windsor & Maidenhead Ashley Hill 144 SU 824 811
Hartlepool Whelly Hill 142 NZ 453 342
Wokingham Bowsey Hill 140 SU 807 803
Derby Allestree Park 135 SK 340 406
Portsmouth Fort Southwick 131 SU 627 069
Nottingham M1 (Nottingham) 130 SK 507 433
Nottingham Mapperley 130 SK 588 431
Bracknell Forest Surrey Hill 130 SU 889 641
North East Lincolnshire Wold Newton 117 TF 253 969
Thurrock Langdon Hill 115 TQ 679 864
Leicester Nether Hall 110 SK 645 065
Warrington High Warren 105 SJ 614 843
Reading Park Lane, Tilehurst 103 SU 663 729
North Lincolnshire Saxby Wold 102 SE 999 173
Halton Halton Castle 100 SJ 537 820
Middlesbrough Quarry Hill 100 NZ 552 124
Southampton Basset Avenue 85 SU 420 169
Stockton-on-Tees Boy Hill 82 NZ 479 108
Peterborough Racecourse Road 81 TF 035 042
Stockton-on-Tees Thorpe Larches 80 NZ 391 257
Poole Corfe Hills 78 SY 999 966
Bournemouth Ringwood Road 65 SZ 049 950
Southend-on-Sea London Road 61 TQ 821 866
Southend-on-Sea Great Wood/Heath Mount 60 TQ 827 883
Slough East Burnham Park 51 SU 955 830
York Stock Hill 44 SE 544 473
Blackpool Warbreck Reservoir 30 SD 316 385
Kingston upon Hull Bransholme 11 TA 096 362
Kingston upon Hull East Mount 11 TA 136 328

 

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Quasi Unitary Authority Top Height (M) Grid Reference
Kirklees Black Hill 582 SE 078 047
Sheffield High Stones, Howden Edge 550 SK 188 944
Oldham Black Chew Head 542 SE 056 020
Barnsley Hoar Stones, Howden Edge 514 SK 158 983
Tameside Hoarstone Edge 497 SE 020 017
Calderdale Waystone Edge 480 SD 998 140
Rochdale Blackstone Edge 472 SD 972 164
Rochdale Hail Storm Hill 472 SD 844 189
Bradford Withins Height, Round Hill 455 SD 978 350
Bolton Winter Hill 2 445 SD 663 146
Bury Scholes Height & Bull Hill 415 SD 756 190
Leeds Burley Moor 340 SE 141 445
Stockport Mellor Moor 327 SJ 987 873
Stockport Robin Hood's Picking Rods 327 SK 006 909
Sandwell Turner's Hill 271 SO 968 887
Gateshead Currock Hill 259 NZ 107 592
Dudley Cawney Hill 251 SO 954 897
Birmingham Rednal Hill 250 SO 996 766
Wolverhampton Sedgley Beacon 235 SO 923 944
Walsall Barr Beacon 227 SP 061 974
Solihull Meigh's Wood, Old Arden 185 SP 260 846
St. Helens Billinge Hill 179 SD 526 014
Wakefield Wooley Edge 176 SE 307 134
Sunderland The Moors 170 NZ 363 509
Coventry Corley Moor 167 SP 281 849
Wigan Billinge Hill 165 SD 522 018
Rotherham Fir Hill, Harthill Field 157 SK 494 797
Doncaster Foredoles Head 144 SK 513 934
Newcastle upon Tyne Westerhope 131 NZ 189 669
Salford Greenheys 115 SD 714 049
Manchester Heaton Park 108 SD 835 046
Wirral Poll Hill 108 SJ 268 823
Knowsley Hag Brow 97 SJ 462 944
Knowsley Knowsley Park 97 SJ 454 943
South Tyneside Boldon Hills 90 NZ 350 602
Liverpool Woolton Hill 89 SJ 419 874
North Tyneside Camperdown 86 NZ 281 718
Trafford The Devisdale 70 SJ 756 875
Sefton Melling Mount 36 SD 403 012

 

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