Hills

[Jamwld]

How high does a hill have to be to be counted as a mountain? please please if any body can help me.

[don1]

read the first paragraph Jamwld.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain

[dzug]

In Britain the threshold is sometimes taken as 1000ft but there really is no single definition that holds true everywhere - as don1's link says. Custom and usage..

The Sussex Downs have been referred to as mountains for example - much lower than 1000ft

[Christiana]

I can't be sure this is true, but have been told that Snaefell on the Isle of Man is classified as a mountain because it's over 2,000 feet high,, but only just and is shrinking. The locals are very concerned they might lose its mountain status, as its their only mountain, though they have a number of hills higher than 1,000 feet.

[Quizmonster]

In Britain, there is no question as to the dividing line. That is because the Ordnance Survey (OS) are the recognised map-makers for the country. They use whatever the local name is to describe high lands. For example, if something had always been called "the Black Mountain" by locals, then that's what they'll call it.
Other than that, throughout England, Wales and Ireland, the OS stipulate that those above 2,000 feet qualify as �mountains'. Some people maintain, however, that a mountain must have a specific �peak'; on that basis, Kinder Scout - the highest area of Derbyshire's Peak District at 2,087 feet - is just moorland rather than mountain, despite the area's name!
In Scotland, there are various names for different mountain-heights...2,000 - 2,499 feet are Grahams, 2,500 - 2,999 feet are Corbetts and 3000 feet plus are Munros. The last of these is now also applied to mountains in England, Wales and Ireland.