For those of your who are members of “The Relative Hills of Britain” Pedantic group (pedantic@groups.io | Home), you maybe aware that that the next book due to be published by “Pedantic Press” will be “The Revised Relative Hills of Britain: The Marilyns” book and this book will become available from around mid June.
The founder of the British Marilyns Alan Dawson has posted a thread about this on the Pedantic group which you can find here (Log In), but I have included screenshots of Alan Dawson’s post on this thread so that those you you who aren’t members of the Pedantic group are able to see.
From reading Alan Dawson’s post, I can see that Cliffe Hill G/SE-014 is now longer a Marilyn. Due to this, I announcing that I will be submitting the England (G) SOTA updates in March 2026 to coincide with SOTA’s 24th Anniversary that falls on 2nd March 2026. However, Cliffe Hill G/SE-014 will remain a valid SOTA summit until 31st May 2026. As the G/SE regional notes currently mention Cliffe Hill G/SE-014, I will need to correspond in due course with the G/SE Region Manager David @G3RDQ with regards to this in due course. In my personal opinion, I am pleased that Cliffe Hill G/SE-014 is no longer a Marilyn and that by June 2026 will no longer be a SOTA summit because the actual summit of this is on a golf course when the last time I activated this SOTA summit which was nearly 7 years ago now with my dad Tom @M1EYP, we met one golfer who was very friendly, but we also met a golfer who was very unfriendly.
Another change is that Mynydd Machen GW/SW-030 has now been replaced by Mynydd y Grug. This means that Mynydd Machen GW/SW-030 will get removed from the SOTA programme in due course and Mynydd y Grug will get added to the SOTA programme in due course also and will probably get SOTA reference GW/SW-042. I will leave it to the GW - Association Manager Roger @MW0IDX to announce when he’ll be doing the Wales (GW) SOTA updates and also as to when the GW SOTA summits change take effect, however I believe that Roger MW0IDX is planning for the GW SOTA summit change to happen at a similar time to when Cliffe Hill G/SE-014 gets removed from the SOTA programme. This GW SOTA change is actually very similar to when Hensbarrow Beacon G/DC-004 got replaced by Hensbarrow Downs G/DC-008 which was the 2nd SOTA summit to be added to the G (England) Association after me and my dad Tom M1EYP activated all the England (G) SOTA summits initially so we were 3rd time lucky activating this entire association. For the Wales (GW) Association, one new Marilyn was added to GW (Wales) Association after the activated all the Wales (GW) Association initially and we since activated the additional GW SOTA summit. Now that Mynydd y Grug will be added to the GW (Wales) Association, it’s only fair that eventually me and my dad Tom M1EYP will be 3rd time lucky activating the entire GW (Wales) Association, like we were activating the G (England) Association and given that Mynydd y Grug is very similar to Hensbarrow Downs G/DC-008 is just a coincidence also. What is frustrating though is that Mynydd y Grug isn’t daytrippable for me and my dad Tom M1EYP and therefore we will need to do a 1 or 2 night stay somewhere for just one unique.
In addition to the above Guir-bheinn GM/SI-142 hasn’t been a Marilyn since May 2021 and therefore will need to be removed from the SOTA programme at some-point. I am sure that in due course that the GM - Association Manager Andy @MM0FMF will do a Scotland (GM) Association update and add a valid to date for Guir-bheinn GM/SI-142.
All changes mentioned above have been updated on the Hill Bagging website already (https://www.hill-bagging.co.uk/).
Jimmy M0HGY
G - Association Manager
