Where can I find a list of English & Welsh mountains over 2,500 feet?

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John Rooke Corbett, compiler of 'The Corbetts' and the '25s'

10 April 2008 17:36

A while ago "Trail" published information about the Rucksack Club list of English and Welsh 2,500 ft mountains, compiled by John Rooke Corbett in 1911 and revised in 1933. Where can I obtain a copy of this list? Would you publish a version of it as you did for Munros in March 2002?

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By Trail magazine

Before he compiled his famous list of Scottish peaks between 2,500 and 3,000ft, John Rooke Corbett drew up a list of English and Welsh peaks over 2,500ft. The sole criterion was that the point lay within a 50ft (15m) contour ring. The list, referred to as the 'English and Welsh 25s', was published in the Rucksack Club's journal in 1911. A revised list in 1929 took the total from 131 to 148. Finally in 1933 ten more additions took the list of 25s to 158 (94 in England, 64 in Wales). You can download the original lists, as published in the Rucksack Club Journal, below as Word documents.

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