The Marilyns

A Marilyn is "a hill of any height with a drop of 150 metres (nearly 500 ft) or more on all sides". So it is a hill which is relatively high compared to its surroundings.

A subMarilyn is a hill which just fails (by up to 10m) to qualify on the drop rule, i.e. drop of 140m to 149m on all sides.

The Marilyns are so-called by the list's compiler, Alan Dawson, after the more famous mountain list - the Munros. Alan's original list is of mountains and hills in Scotland, England, Wales and the Isle of Man. The same concept was applied to Ireland by E D "Clem" Clements.

Anyone who has climbed 600 British Marilyns or more is eligible for entry into the Marilyn Hall of Fame. Anybody wishing to make a claim should initially contact the Membership Secretary, Chris Watson, at hof@rhsoc.uk.

Change Register - registry of changes to the Marilyns list.

(Marilyns appear as Class=Ma on this website, and subMarilyns as Class=sMa).

My Progress

I have completed 0 (0%) of 1556 Marilyns of Britain [Map*]: 0 (0%) of 1218 Scottish Marilyns [Map*]; 0 (0%) of 174 English Marilyns [Map*]; 0 (0%) of 159 Welsh Marilyns [Map*]; 0 (0%) of 5 Manx Marilyns [Map*]; 0 (0%) of 454 Irish Marilyns [Map*]

(* please note that map may be slow to load)

League Table - compare your progress with other members of this site.

Marilyns by Topographical Area

Click on a hill total on the list below to show the Mountain Search page for Marilyns in the corresponding topographical area.
The topographical areas, with their names and numbering are taken from The 1033 High Hills of Britain by Alan Dawson.
You can list the Marilyns by different area types via the Mountain Search page.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Alan Dawson - I highly recommend his website, and book The Relative Hills of Britain, published by Cicerone Press. The list of Marilyns are reproduced from this book by his kind permission.

Thanks also to Clem Clements and Dave Hewitt for their TACit Tables booklet, The Hewitts and Marilyns of Ireland, (ISBN 0 9522680 8 6).