A letter writer has confessed to guiltily bagging the summit of Crowborough's Marilyn hill, which lies in someone's front garden. Margaret Squires of St Andrews, Fife, wrote to the Guardian to admit that despite the awkward location, the lure of the list was too great and she tiptoed up its barely perceptible horticultural slopes.
A Marilyn is defined as any hill in Britain surrounded by a 150-metre drop. Unlike the Inaccessible Pinnacle on the Isle of Skye and almost all other Marilyns, the summit of Crowborough is situated in a private front garden, making access a delicate issue.
Ms Squires expressed relief that the spotlight has shifted from this controversy to another recent row in Crowborough over an asylum plan for a former military camp, which saw thousands march in protest.
