The Hewitts.
A Hewitt is a hill in England, Wales or Ireland over 2,000 feet (610 m) high, with a drop of at least 30 m (98 ft) on all sides. The name is made from the first letters of that rule: Hill in England, Wales or Ireland over Two Thousand feet. Alan Dawson set the list out in his TACit Tables booklets, among them The Hewitts and Marilyns of England. It asks the same height as the Nuttalls but twice their 15 m of drop, so the smallest bumps on a ridge drop out, and every Lakeland Hewitt is also a Nuttall. The Database of British and Irish Hills counts 523 Hewitts and 114 in its Lake District section; shown here are the Lakeland ones with a walking guide on this site.
Alan Dawson is the hill-bagger and writer behind The Relative Hills of Britain, the book that introduced the Marilyns. He published the Hewitts through TACit Press in its TACit Tables booklets, applying the same test of drop to the 2,000-foot hills.
Hewitts map
Every summit on this list plotted from its recorded position. Click a marker to open that fell’s guide — the map follows the search and filters below, and ticked tops show in the accent colour.
Browse all 113 Hewitts
Search by name, filter by height band, and tick off the tops as you bag them. Progress is saved on this device.
This page lists the 113 fells on this list that have a guide on the site — not the full national list of 523. The one Hewitt in the Lake District without a guide here is Striding Edge (High Spying How). New to the lists? See how the fell lists differ.
Beyond the Lake District
10 Hewitts outside the Lake District have a guide here. They are not counted in the figures above.