List of completed walks

Note that all mileage and ascent figures are approximate. For the meaning of star ratings, see the “About” page. Lists of the longest and shortest, steepest and flattest walks, and lots more useless information can be found on the Records, Lists and Oddities page.

  • Walk 1: Holyhead Mountain, Anglesey (pictured). 22nd June 2019. 6.2 miles, 800 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★. Ease of access: ★★★★. Scenic qualities: ★★★★.
  • Walk 2: Ben Nevis, Inverness-shire/Highland. 20th July 2019. 15.2 miles, 4,340 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★★★. Ease of access: ★★★. Scenic qualities: ★★★★★.
Holyhead Mountain
Walkers on Holyhead Mountain, highest point of Anglesey
  • Walk 3: Cleeve Hill, Gloucestershire. 10th August 2019. 4.2 miles, 800 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★. Ease of access: ★★★★★. Scenic qualities: ★★.
  • Walk 4: Blackdown, West Sussex. 13th October 2019. 6.75 miles, 500 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★. Ease of access: ★★★★. Scenic qualities: ★★.
  • Walk 5: Ben Cleuch, Clackmannanshire. 29th October 2019. 7.5 miles, 2,500 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★★. Ease of access: ★★★. Scenic qualities: ★★★★.
  • Walk 6: Craig y Llyn, Glamorgan/Neath Port Talbot/Rhondda Cynon Taff [pictured].  13th December 2019.  9.3 miles, 1,475 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★★. Ease of access: ★★★. Scenic qualities: ★★.
Wind farm on Craig y Llyn
Part of the massive wind farm which spreads across the top of Craig y Llyn
  • Walk 7/8: Pavis Wood, Hertfordshire and Haddington Hill, Buckinghamshire. 12th February 2020. 8.5 miles, 490 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★. Ease of access: ★★★. Scenic qualities: ★★.
  • Walk 9: Normanby Top, Lincolnshire. 11th March 2020. 9.25 miles, 500 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★. Ease of access: ★★★. Scenic qualities: ★★★.
  • Walk 10: Black Hill, Cheshire/Kirklees. There are two versions of this walk, a shorter and a longer version. Short version: 16th April 2020. 4.25 miles, 800 feet of ascent. Long version: 4th May 2020, 12.4 miles, 1,700 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★ (short), ★★★ (long). Ease of access: ★★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★.
  • Walk 11: Bishop Wilton Wold, East Riding of Yorkshire. 13th May 2020. 9 miles, 925 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★.  Ease of access: ★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★.
  • Walk 12: Allestree Park, Derby. 14th June 2020, 7 miles, 300 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★.  Ease of access: ★★★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★.
Billinge Hill summit
The tower on top of Billinge Hill, the summit of St Helens (and Merseyside)
  • Walk 13: Burnhope Seat, Durham (historic).  11th July 2020, 9.5 miles, 1,350 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★★★.  Ease of access: ★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★.
  • Walk 14/15: Billinge Hill, St Helens (pictured) and Crank Road, Wigan.  17th July 2020, 9.7 miles, 525 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★.  Ease of access: ★★★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★.
  • Walk 16: Langdon Hills, Thurrock. 31st July 2020. 5.2 miles, 410 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★.  Ease of access: ★★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★.
  • Walk 17: The Wrekin, Telford and Wrekin.  18th August 2020.  4.75 miles, 1,000 feet of ascent.  Difficulty: ★★★. Ease of access: ★★★. Scenic qualities: ★★★.
  • Walk 18: Holly Hill, Medway. 9th September 2020.  6.2 miles, 525 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★. Ease of access: ★★★★. Scenic qualities: ★★.
Loch Skeen
Loch Skeen, near White Coomb (although the hill ahead is Mid Craig, not visited on my route).
  • Walk 19 [pictured]: White Coomb, Dumfriesshire. 18th September 2020. 7.5 miles, 2,375 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★★★.  Ease of access: ★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★★.
  • Walk 20: Saxby Wold, North Lincolnshire. 4th November 2020.  13.25 miles, 400 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★.  Ease of access: ★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★.
  • Walk 21: Hanging Hill, South Gloucestershire.  9th December 2020.  9.3 miles, 1,150 feet of ascent.  Difficulty: ★★.  Ease of access: ★★★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★.
  • Walk 22 (pictured): Racecourse Road, Peterborough.  22nd December 2020.  6 miles, 230 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★.  Ease of access: ★★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★.
Being watched while having lunch on walk 22.
  • Walk 23: Beacon Hill, Norfolk.  25th December 2020.  6 miles, 450 feet of ascent.  Difficulty: ★★.  Ease of access: ★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★.
  • Walk 24: Blackstone Edge, Rochdale.  Two visits: 1) 31st January 2021, 12.4 miles, 1,310 feet of ascent; 2) 7th March 2021, 9.5 miles, 1,375 feet of ascent.  Difficulty: ★★★.  Ease of access: ★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★★ for version 1, ★★★ for version 2.
  • Walk 25: Woolton Hill, Liverpool. 11th February 2021. 10.25 miles, 200 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★.  Ease of access: ★★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★.
  • Walk 26/27: Winter Hill, Bolton/Blackburn with Darwen. 25th February 2021. 10.9 miles, 1,510 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★★. Ease of access: ★★★. Scenic qualities: ★★★.
  • Walk 28 (pictured): Woolley Edge, Wakefield. 14th March 2021. 7.25 miles, 590 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★.  Ease of access: ★★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★.
A work in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, near Woolley Edge (walk 28).
  • Walk 29: Burley Moor, Leeds. 27th March 2021. 9.3 miles, 1,180 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★★.  Ease of access: ★★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★.
  • Walk 30: Warden Law, Sunderland. 9th April 2021. 15 miles, 810 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★★.  Ease of access: ★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★.
  • Walk 31: Dunstable Downs, Bedfordshire/Central Bedfordshire. 5th May 2021. 7.5 miles, 360 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★.  Ease of access: ★★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★.
  • Walk 32: Corse Hill, East Renfrewshire. 4th June 2021. 6 miles, 460 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★.  Ease of access: ★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★.
  • Walk 33 (pictured): Dundee Law, Dundee City. 5th June 2021. 3.9 miles, 590 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★.  Ease of access: ★★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★.
The V & A Design Museum Dundee, and the Tay Bridge, seen on walk 33.
  • Walk 34: Moel Famau, Flintshire. 19th June 2021. 8.1 miles, 1,510 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★★.  Ease of access: ★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★★.
  • Walk 35: Withins Height, Bradford. 8th July 2021. 11.5 miles, 1,740 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★★.  Ease of access: ★★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★★.
  • Walk 36: Ebrington Hill, Warwickshire. 14th July 2021. 9.5 miles, 900 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★.  Ease of access: ★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★.
  • Walk 37: Mapperley, Nottingham. 3rd August 2021. 7.5 miles, 610 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★.  Ease of access: ★★★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★.
  • Walk 38: Glas Maol, Angus. 14th August 2021. 4.33 miles, 1,575 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★★.  Ease of access: ★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★.
In the valley of Allt a’Chobhair, with Ben Lawers ahead.
  • Walk 39 [pictured]: Ben Lawers, Perthshire/Perth and Kinross. 16th August 2021. 7 miles, 3,085 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★★★.  Ease of access: ★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★★.
  • Walk 40: Heaton Park, City of Manchester. 1st September 2021. 4 miles, 200 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★.  Ease of access: ★★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★.
  • Walk 41: Mount Battock, Kincardineshire. 12th September 2021. 9 miles, 2,230 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★★.  Ease of access: ★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★.
  • Walk 42: Fordoles Head Lane, Doncaster. 25th October 2021. 6 miles, 330 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★.  Ease of access: ★★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★.
  • Walk 43: Poll Hill, Wirral. 5th January 2022. 7.25 miles, 460 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★.  Ease of access: ★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★.
Clare on her way through the woods near the top of Bushey Heath, Middlesex.
  • Walk 44 [pictured]: Bushey Heath, Middlesex. 30th January 2022. 5.75 miles, 460 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★.  Ease of access: ★★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★.
  • Walk 45/46: Westerham Heights, Greater London and Betsom’s Hill, Kent. 13th February 2022. 7.75 miles, 920 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★.  Ease of access: ★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★.
  • Walk 47: Craig Airie Fell, Wigtownshire. 19th March 2022. 6 miles, 785 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★.  Ease of access: ★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★.
  • Walk 48/49: Merrick, Kirkcudbrightshire/Dumfries and Galloway and Kirriereoch Hill, Ayrshire/South Ayrshire. 20th March 2022. 12 miles, 4,000 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★★★.  Ease of access: ★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★★.
  • Walk 50 [pictured]: Culter Fell, Lanarkshire/South Lanarkshire. 19th May 2022. 8 miles, 1,675 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★★.  Ease of access: ★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★.
Culter Fell
Looking up to Culter Fell, summit of Lanarkshire.
  • Walk 51: Brimmond Hill, Aberdeen City. 22nd May 2022. 4 miles, 875 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★.  Ease of access: ★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★.
  • Walk 52: Carn Glas-choire, Nairnshire. 24th May 2022. 10.5 miles, 1,700 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★★★.  Ease of access: ★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★★.
  • Walk 53-55: The Berwyn, Montgomeryshire/Denbighshire/Wrexham. 1st July 2022. 7 miles, 2,150 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★★.  Ease of access: ★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★★.
  • Walk 56: Bald Hill, Oxfordshire (historic). 17th July 2022. 7.25 miles, 770 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★.  Ease of access: ★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★.
  • Walk 57: Stock Hill, City of York. 9th August 2022. 3 miles, 75 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★.  Ease of access: ★★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★.
Darrach Hill, the second of the two CTs bagged on walk 58/59.
  • Walk 58/59: Garrel Hill, North Lanarkshire and Darrach Hill, Falkirk. 10th September 2022 [pictured]. 8.1 miles, 1400 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★★.  Ease of access: ★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★.
  • Walk 60: Portsdown Hill, Portsmouth City. 22nd October 2022. 7.25 miles, 450 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★.  Ease of access: ★★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★.
  • Walk 61: The Ashes, Lincolnshire – Parts of Kesteven, 25th November 2022. 4 miles, 310 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★.  Ease of access: ★★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★.
  • Walk 62: West Lomond, Fife. 8th January 2023. 3.4 miles, 1,280 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★★.  Ease of access: ★★.  Scenic qualities: ★★★.
  • Walk 62½ [pictured]: Diana’s Peak, St Helena. 28th January 2023. 3.1 miles, 985 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★.  Ease of access: Zero.  Scenic qualities: ★★★★.
View from Diana’s Peak on St Helena, to the aptly-named “Gorilla’s Head”.
  • Walk 63: Surrey Hill, Bracknell Forest. 13th February 2023. 7.75 miles, 500 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★. Ease of access: ★★★★. Scenic qualities: ★★.
  • Walk 64: Telegraph, Isles of Scilly. 10th March 2023. 8.75 miles, 850 feet of ascent. Difficulty: ★★. Ease of access: ★. Scenic qualities: ★★★★.