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

 

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

 

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