Why bagging a Marilyn is as good as a Munro: our pick of British hills
(The Guardian Travel News)

Height isn´t everything. In the South Downs, our writer heads up a class of hills named for their prominence - and selects other choice peaks to explore`Well,` I thought, as I stood by a concrete trig point on a summit, looking down over vast tracts of verdant Sussex Weald, `this feels like a proper hill.` And so it should, given that 248-metre Ditchling Beacon is the highest point in East Sussex and the third-highest in the South Downs. But what´s of even greater significance is that this hill is a Marilyn - a designation that says more about a peak than height alone.The term was coined by cartographer and keen outdoorsman Alan Dawson. `I was bagging hills in the Lake District,` he told me from his home near Loch Tay. `I came off 3,000ft Skiddaw and went downhill to bag Sale How, at 2,000ft, and thought, `Well [going downhill to bag a summit], that´s a bit daft.´` Continue reading...