Originally, this page was just called Hills.
But I needed to be more precise. Hewitt is an acronym: Hills in England, Wales and Ireland over Two Thousand feet. So that little pimples on ridges are ignored, there must be at least 30 metres of re-ascent on all sides of the peak; a rather uneasy mix of imperial and metric, but it serves well.
There are 181 English Hewitts in total, and they fall into six geographical groups, three smaller and three larger.
I collected my last three Hewitts in July 2025, finishing – aptly and deliberately – on Great End.
I had already completed the 135 Welsh Hewitts, and you can find my record here.
Carousel pics: Ingleborough from Fountains Fell; The Cheviot; the Ill Bell ridge from Caudle Moor; Blencathra from Great Lingy Hut
In southern England there’s just one Hewitt, 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 Hewitts 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.
The six northernmost Hewitts are the Cheviots in Northumberland. To their south, all loosely considered to be in the Pennine chain, are the Northern Pennines, which include the mighty Cross Fell, and the varied hills of the Yorkshire Dales.
That leaves the Lake District, so large that I’ve subdivided it into six, based on Wainwright’s geographical classification. I have one day out on the southern fells left.