Welcome

The site is over 12 years old, making it one of the longer established hillwalking sites on the web. Currently its main function is to provide a home for the Database of British and Irish Hills. The DoBIH, formerly the Database of British Hills and sometimes called simply The Hills Database, was founded by Graham Jackson and myself in 2001 and is widely regarded as the most authoritative source of hill data on the web. It is currently in version 12.1 and is maintained by a team of seven.

A web-based version of the DoBIH is maintained by one of the team at www.hill-bagging.co.uk. Most other bagging websites use data from the DoBIH, though not always from the latest release.

The weather page was originally created for my own convenience and is unconnected to any statistical topic, unless you're interested in the hit rate (it's strongly periodic, peaking at around 300 on a Thursday).

Chris Crocker

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DoBH 10th anniversary
surveying Fan Brycheiniog
photo: George Gradwell

performing the calculations
George, John, Simon and Graham