The Boys' Brigade Mountaineering Club

Munros are mountains in Scotland above 3,000 ft. They are listed in Munro's Tables which were originally compiled by Sir Hugh Munro for the Scottish Mountaineering Club, who still maintain and occasionally re-publish the Tables. There are currently 282 Munros. There are other mountains rising above 3,000 ft which are not classified as Munros as they are regarded as subsidairy peaks to a Munro. This is becaise there is either too close to the main peak or there is an insufficient drop between them and the main peak. These are classified as Munro Tops and there are currently 226 Munro Tops. These are also listed lower down on the same Wikipedia page as Munros. There are no objective criteria for determining whether a mountain is a Munro or a Munro Top. This is determined subjectively by the SMC.

A subset of the Munros is the group of Munros rising above 4,000 ft, which we will call the Scottish 4000s, of which there are currently only 9.

We have produced indvidual web pages for the Scottish 4000s. These pages display a brief description of the mountain, an embedded interactive 360° summit panorama, links to the mountain's entry in the Wikipedia and Walk Highlands websites and a link to Google Earth, where the mountain can be viewed from above. They also provide interpretations of and a discussion about the mountain's name.

For all of the Munros, including the Scottish 4000s, we have designed a system that dynamically produces web pages from a spreadsheet containing data downloaded from The Database of British and Irish Hills with interpreations of their names and links to other sites where you can view 360° panoramas, satellite views from above, 1:25K, 1:50K Ordnance Survey maps, OpenStreetMap topographicak maps, geology maps, photo galleries and the entries for each mountain on the Hill Bagging, Wikipedia and Walk Highlands web sites.

Click on Munros to select a Munro from a searchable list or from an interactive Munro Map to select a Munro from a map.  Please let us know if you find any mistakes!

Corbetts are mountains between  2,500 and 3,000 ft with a prominence of at least 500 ft. There are currently 222 Corbetts.

Grahams are mountains between 600 and 762 metres in height, with a prominence of at least 150 metres . There are currently 231 Grahams.

Marylyns (the name is a pun to contrast them with Munros) have ho height criteria, but do have a prominence criteria of 150m. There are currently 2,010 Marilyns in the British Isles, but some of them are sea stacks! So. they can be relatively small hills. 202 of the 282 Munros, but none of the Munro Tops are Marylyns. Munros with a Marilyn–prominence are sometimes called Real Munros.  All of the Grahams and Corbetts, by definition, are Marilyns, There are currenyly 1,218 Marilyns in Scotland.

Google Maps have also filmed some walking routes on some Scottish hills for Street View. Details of how to do these virtual hill walks can be found on our Virtual Hill Walks - Scotland page.