Vivod Mountain (SJ 169 400) – Subhump addition
This is the second in a series of Hill Reclassification posts
that give details to hills whose status has been altered in the listing of the Humps (HUndred Metre Prominences)
through map study and / or surveys that I have conducted.
The hill name used in this and forthcoming posts is that used
in the listing of Humps, therefore
individual names may not match those that are used in listings I am directly
associated with. However, I am of firm
belief that listed hill names used by other authors should be respected when
giving detail within other people’s lists, however inappropriate some hill
names may be considered.
This and forthcoming posts are retrospective as many of these
hill reclassifications were initiated from studying the Ordnance Survey
enlarged mapping that is hosted on the Geograph website, and for the
reclassifications that affected the Humps
the second email I posted on the RHB Yahoo Group forum was dated 30.01.12.
The listing of Humps
was published in book format by Lulu in 2009 and entitled More Relative Hills of Britain, its author; Mark Jackson gives
credit to a number of people who contributed toward the formation of this list,
these include; Eric Yeaman, Alan Dawson, Clem Clements, Rob Woodall, Bernie
Hughes, Pete Ridges and others. When the
list was published in book format there were 2987 Humps listed with their criteria being any British hill that has
100m or more of drop, accompanying the main list is a sub category entitled the
Subhumps, with the criteria being any
British hill that has 90m or more and below 100m of drop.
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| More Relative Hills of Britain by Mark Jackson |
The details for the reclassification appear below:
There has been an addition to the listing of the Humps (HUndred Metre Prominences) due to
consulting the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map and later followed by the enlarged
mapping that is hosted on the Geograph website, with these details being posted
on the RHB Yahoo Group forum on 30.01.12.
Prior to this notification Mark Jackson had listed this hill
with 85m of drop, this drop value was based on a 559m summit height given in
his Tumps list and a bwlch height of
474m, with the latter based on a spot height positioned at SJ 150 393. This bwlch position was incorrect as it is approximately
1.1km west from where the critical bwlch of this hill is positioned and which
already had bwlch contouring between 460m – 470m, which is lower than the 474m spot
height that had been used for the height of this hill’s bwlch in the Tumps.
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| Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map showing the position of the 474m spot height and lower contouring at the position of the critical bwlch approximately 1km east of its position |
The hill appears under the
name of Vivod Mountain in the Humps,
with this name appearing on current Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger and
1:25,000 Explorer maps. The word Vivod is an anglicised corruption of the radical unmutated word
Meifod, this being a Welsh word meaning middle
dwelling. The landowning estate of Vivod / Y Feifod can be found
north-eastward from this hill’s summit. Although locally known in some
areas as Vivod (Feifod) Mountain, the locally known name in the Welsh speaking
community is Mynydd y Feifod.
The addition of this hill to Subhump status was accepted by Mark Jackson and its new
classification augmented in to the listing of the Humps on the 30.01.12.
The full details for the hill are:
Name: Vivod Mountain (as
listed in the Humps)
Summit Height: 559m (as
listed in the Humps)
OS 1:50,000 map: 125
OS 1:25,000 map: 255
Summit Grid Reference:
SJ 16965 40002
Drop: 96m (as listed
in the Humps)
Myrddyn Phillips (August 2017)
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