hills-mcp-server

An MCP server for exploring British and Irish hills: Munros, Wainwrights, Corbetts, Marilyns and more. No API key needed, works offline.

Tools

Tool	Description
find_nearby_hills	Find hills near a lat/lon, sorted by distance, with optional classification filter
search_hills	Search hills by name
get_hill_details	Full detail for one hill: height, drop, grid reference, classifications, links
get_list	All hills in a classification (Munros, Wainwrights, etc), with optional height filter
get_hill_stats	Database overview: hills per classification and country

Setup

No API keys needed. Just add to Claude Code:

claude mcp add hills -- npx -y @michaelhutchinson/hills-mcp-server

Or add to Claude Desktop's claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hills": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@michaelhutchinson/hills-mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Code or Claude Desktop and you're ready.

Example questions

• "Which Munros are within 20km of Fort William?"
• "Tell me about Helvellyn"
• "List the Wainwrights"
• "What's the highest hill in Wales?"
• "Find hills near me over 600m" (Claude will ask for your location)
• "Search for hills called Ben More"
• "How many Corbetts are there?"
• "Which country has the most Marilyns?"

Data

Hill data comes from a bundled snapshot of the Database of British and Irish Hills (DoBIH) v18.5, which covers 21,576 hills across Britain and Ireland.

The data ships inside the package, so lookups run locally: answers are instant and there are no network calls at runtime. DoBIH is updated a few times a year, and the package is re-released to track it.

To rebuild the snapshot from a new DoBIH release:

curl -sL -o /tmp/hillcsv.zip https://www.hill-bagging.co.uk/dobih-downloads/hillcsv.zip
unzip -o /tmp/hillcsv.zip -d /tmp
npm run build-data -- /tmp/DoBIH_v18_5.csv

License

MIT. The licence covers the code in this repository only.

This is an unofficial, community-built tool. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Database of British and Irish Hills team. Hill data © the DoBIH contributors, licensed CC-BY 4.0, from the Database of British and Irish Hills.