List of hills of Hampshire explained

This is a list of hills in Hampshire. It is based on the online Database of British and Irish Hills,^[1] Jackson's More Relative Hills of Britain^[2] and list of 30 metre prominences^[3] and the Ordnance Survey mapping service.

Many of these hills are important historic, archaeological and nature conservation sites, as well as popular hiking and tourist destinations in the county of Hampshire in southern England.

Colour key

Class	Prominence
Marilyns	150 – 599 m
HuMPs	100 – 149 m
TuMPs	30 – 99 m
Unclassified	0 – 29 m

The table is colour-coded based on the classification or "listing" of the hill. The types that occur in Hampshire are Marilyns, HuMPs and TuMPs, listings that are based on the topographical prominence. "Prominence" correlates strongly with the subjective significance of a summit. Peaks with low prominences are either subsidiary tops of a higher summit or relatively insignificant independent summits. Peaks with high prominences tend to be the highest points around and likely to have extraordinary views.

A Marilyn is a hill of any height that has a prominence of at least 150 metres or about 500 feet.^[4] A "HuMP" (the acronym comes from "Hundred Metre Prominence) is a hill with a prominence of at least 100 but less than 150 metres.^[2] In this table Marilyns are in beige and HuMPs in lilac. The term "sub-Marilyn" or "sub-HuMP" is used, e.g. in the Database of British and Irish Hills to indicate hills that fall just below the threshold.

To qualify for inclusion, hills must either be 200 metres or higher with a prominence of at least 30 metres, below 200 metres with a prominence of at least 90 metres (the threshold for a sub-HuMP), or be in some other way notable. For further information see the Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles and the individual articles on Marilyns, HuMPs and TuMPs.

In this context, "TuMP" is used to connote a hill with a prominence of at least 30 but less than 100 metres. By way of contrast, see also the article listing Tumps (a traditional term meaning a hillock, mound, barrow or tumulus).

The county tops (i.e. highest points) of Portsmouth and Southampton unitary authorities are not strictly in the modern county of Hampshire, but are included because they fall within Hampshire's historic county boundary.

Table

Hill	Height (m)	Prom. (m)	Grid ref.	Class	Parent	Range/Region	Remarks	Image
Pilot Hill^[5]	286	45		County top, TuMP	Walbury Hill	Hampshire Downs	Hampshire's county top. West flank in the county of Berkshire.
Butser Hill^[6]	270	158		Marilyn, HuMP, TuMP	Walbury Hill	South Downs	Hampshire's only Marilyn. Highest point on the South Downs. Iron Age earthworks, SSSI, NNR.
Sidown Hill	266	34		TuMP	Walbury Hill	Hampshire Downs	Grade II listed building, Heaven's Gate, on summit.
Beacon Hill	261	73		TuMP	Walbury Hill	Hampshire Downs	Near Burghclere. Formerly site of most famous beacon in Hampshire. Hill fort, SSSI, NNR.
Wheatham Hill^[7]	249	125		HuMP	Butser Hill	Hampshire Downs, East Hampshire Hangers
War Down	244	90	(est.)	sub-HuMP, TuMP	Butser Hill	South Downs
Watership Down	237	90		sub-HuMP, TuMP	Walbury Hill	Hampshire Downs	Setting for Richard Adams' novel.
Wether Down	234	37		TuMP	Butser Hill	South Downs
Ladle Hill	232	41		TuMP	Walbury Hill	Hampshire Downs	Unique example of an unfinished hill fort.
Holybourne Hill	225	64		TuMP	Butser Hill	Hampshire Downs	Near the village of Holybourne Also known as Holybourne Down
Red Hill	221	48		TuMP	Butser Hill	Hampshire Downs
Goleigh Hill	220	53		TuMP	Butser Hill	Hampshire Downs East Hampshire Hangers	Near Empshott and Noar Hill
King's Hill	218	46		TuMP	Butser Hill	Hampshire Downs	On the road between Medstead and Beech
Noar Hill	214	59		Tump	Butser Hill	Hampshire Downs, East Hampshire Hangers	Near Empshott and Goleigh Hill
Pidham Hill	213	57		TuMP	Butser Hill	South Downs
Selborne Hill	211	53		TuMP	Butser Hill	Hampshire Downs, East Hampshire Hangers	Selborne Common occupies the crown of the hill.
Farleigh Hill	208	34		TuMP	Butser Hill	Hampshire Downs
Head Down	205	68		TuMP	Butser Hill	South Downs	1 km S of Buriton
Oakham Hill	202	65		TuMP	Butser Hill	South Downs
Beacon Hill	201	88		TuMP	Butser Hill	South Downs
Henwood Down	201	64		TuMP	Butser Hill	South Downs
Old Winchester Hill	197					South Downs	Iron Age hill fort, Bronze Age cemetery. SSSI, NNR. On spur of unnamed hill that is over 210 m high and not listed.
Windmill Hill	194	84		TuMP	Butser Hill	South Downs	Grade II listed windmill at summit.
Farley Mount	178	83		TuMP	Butser Hill	Hampshire Downs	Folly near summit.
Broadhalfpenny Down	158	43		TuMP	Butser Hill	South Downs	Historic cricket venue.
Fort Southwick Portsdown^[8]	122	84		TuMP	Butser Hill	South Hampshire Lowlands	Portsmouth's county top.
King John's Hill^[9]	115^[10]	21		TuMP		Hampshire Downs	Iron Age hillfort and medieval hunting lodge
St. Catherine's Hill	97	35		TuMP	Butser Hill	Hampshire Downs	SSSI, Iron Age hill fort.
Bassett Avenue	82	5		None		South Hampshire Lowlands	Southampton's county top. Bassett district of Southampton

The following summits have been omitted from the table as they are considered sub-peaks, alternative names of hills in the main list or are otherwise not eligible at this stage:

• Cottington's Hill or King John's Hill, Kingsclere, Hampshire Downs (230m (760feet))^{[11] [12] [13]}
• Stoner Hill, Hampshire Downs, East Hampshire Hangers (233m (764feet)) is a subsidiary summit of Wheatham Hill (249m (817feet)).^{[11] [12]}

See also

• List of mountains and hills of the United Kingdom
• List of Marilyns in England
• Geology of Hampshire

Notes and References

1. http://www.hill-bagging.co.uk/ Database of British and Irish Hills
2. Web site: Jackson . Mark . More Relative Hills of Britain . Relative Hills of Britain . 31 March 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131012150300/http://www.rhb.org.uk/humps/humps_1_1_0c.pdf . 12 October 2013 .
3. http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/prominence.html Summit Listings by Relative Height
4. Book: Dawson, Alan . 1992 . The Relative Hills of Britain . Cicerone Press . Milnthorpe . 1-85284-068-4 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100921045806/http://bubl.ac.uk/org/tacit/marilyns/ . 2010-09-21 .
5. Name, height, prominence, grid and class data from Database of British and Irish Hills - Hampshire. Accessed on 1 Apr 2013.
6. Name, height, prominence, grid and parent data from: Jackson, Mark (2009). More Relative Hills of Britain, Marilyn News Centre, UK, p. 144. E-book .
7. Class data from Database of British and Irish Hills - Hampshire. Accessed on 1 Apr 2013.
8. Jackson calls it "Portsdown" and gives the height as 131 m, drop as c93 m and grid as SU627069.
9. [Historic England]
10. Ordnance Survey Explorer Map 133: Haslemere, Petersfield, Midhurst & Selborne.
11. Varley, Telford (1922). Hampshire, Cambridge County Geographies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013 paperback edition, p. 17. . Varley's use of the term "North Downs" is taken to mean the main "Hampshire Downs", not the "North Downs" of Surrey and Kent.
12. [Ordnance Survey]
13. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56801 Kingsclere