Sunday 2nd August 2015
Danny Howell writes ~
I’ve just had several emails from people saying they’ve read on a Warminster Facebook page “some useless information” saying if Cley Hill was a metre higher it would be a mountain. I’m being asked if this is true.
I can confirm that what they’ve read is indeed “useless information” because it is incorrect.
Most online sources say a UK mountain has a summit over 2,000 feet high. For example, Wikipedia, states: “In the United Kingdom and the Irish Republic, a mountain is usually defined as any summit at least 2,000 feet (or 610 metres) high, whilst the official United Kingdom government’s definition of a mountain, for the purposes of access, is a summit of 600 metres or higher.”
Cley Hill is usually referred to locally as being 800 feet high. Hill Bagging (the online database of British and Irish Hills) records Cley Hill as being 801 feet or 244 metres.
So even if it was a metre higher it would still only be about two fifths the height of a mountain.