The Boys' Brigade Mountaineering Club

We would like to place on record our thanks to:

The Database of British and Irish Hill and the tremendous work they have done in originally documenting, regularly updating and checking all of the data that we have downloaded from their website.

Prof Hywel Wyn Owen, Emeritus Professor and former Director of the Place-names Research Centre at Bangor University, Project Director of the Board of Celtic Studies: The Welsh Place-names Survey, Honorary Vice-President of the English Place-Name Society, and former President of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, founder member of the Welsh Place-Name Society, author of The Place-names of Wales (Bangor University Press, 1998) and co-author of the Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (Gwasg Gomer, 2007).  Prof Owen has checked the Welsh syntax and grammar and its interpretations for the Welsh 3000s (and also the Cumbric for the English 3000s).

Prof Peter McClure, Honorary Professor of Name Studies with the Institute of Name Studies at the University of Nottingham, founder of Nomina - the journal of the Council (now the Society) for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, former President and Vice-President of that Society and Vice-President of the English Place-Name Society, who has checked the Old English and Old Norse syntax and grammar and its interpretations in the enties for the English 3000s.

Bill Patterson, Newsletter Editor of the Scottish Place-name Society, who has been kind enough to check the Scottish Gaelic syntax and grammar and its interpretations in the entries for the Scottish 4000s.

Dr Peter Drummond, a previous Convener and currently Treasurer of the Scottish Place-name Society and a renowned expert in Scottish place-names, for his comments and advice on the Scottish 4000s. His book, Scottish Hill Names: Their Origin and Meaning . This book has also been used extensively in researching the names of all the Munros. We would also like to acknowledge the usefulness of online Gaelic dictionaries referenced by Lexilogos and Wiktionary for etymologies.

John and Anne Nuttall for their two volume The Mountains of England and Wales, which contains useful interpretions of mountain names.

An acknowledgement is also due to the Scottish Mountaineering Club for initiating and maintaining Munro's tables and providing interpretations of mountain names in their Hillwalkers' Guide.

The Google contributors who have uploaded 360° summit panoramas and Google for making these, their maps and Google Earth free for public use.

The Ordnance Survey for producing such amazing maps; Street Map and Bing for allowing us to use their sites to display maps; OpenStreetMap for its topographical map; Macrostrat for its geology map; Geograph and their contributors for its map-based photo gallery; Wikipedia and its contributors for creating and maintaining pages for most of the mountains we have featured; and  Walk Highhlands for all the useful information it provides about mountains and routes and especially for providing help with Gaelic pronunciation.