Bryn y Bont (SH 596 459)
There has been a Significant Height Revision to a hill that
now appears in the Double Sub-Twmpau
list that accompanies the 30-99m Twmpau
list, with the hill’s height and drop confirmed by analysis by Aled Williams of
data produced by LIDAR. With the title
of Twmpau being an acronym for thirty welsh metre prominences and upward.
Accompanying each 100m height band within the main Twmpau list is a sub list entitled the Sub-Twmpau, with the Double Sub-Twmpau attached to the lower
tier height band of Welsh hills.
The criteria for the lower tier of Twmpau hills are:
30-99m Twmpau – All Welsh hills at and
above 30m and below 100m in height with 30m minimum drop.
30-99m Sub-Twmpau – All Welsh hills at and
above 30m and below 100m in height with 20m or more and below 30m of drop.
Double Sub-Twmpau – All Welsh hills at and
above 20m and below 30m in height with 20m or more and below 30m of drop.
The name of the hill is Bryn y Bont and it is
situated in the Moelwynion range of hills and is placed in the Region of North
Wales (Region A, Sub-Region A1). The
hill is positioned with the A 4085 road to its north and its east and the A 498
road to its west, and has the Afon Glaslyn also to its immediate west, with the
hamlet of Nantmor positioned to the east of the hill and the village of
Beddgelert towards its north.
As the hill is not a part of designated open
access land permission to visit should be sought, for those wishing to do so an
ascent from the convenience of the road to its north or east is likely to be
the easiest.
Prior to analysis of data produced via LIDAR this
hill was not listed in the Hills to be
surveyed sub list that accompanied the Welsh P30 lists published on Geoff
Crowder’s v-g.me website. When these
lists were re-evaluated after they were standardised and also drop values
added, this hill was listed with c 16m of drop based on an estimated c 20m
summit height which was based on this hill’s small uppermost 20m ring contour
on Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger and 1:25,000 Explorer maps, and an
estimated bwlch height of c 4m based on bwlch contouring at 10m intervals and
between 0 – 10m, with the caveat that the 4m spot height positioned at SH 59756
45814 and shown on the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map is probably not at
the position of the critical bwlch.
However, since these lists were re-evaluated OS Maps (the recent
replacement for OS Get-a-map) are now available and show 5m contour intervals with
an uppermost 25m ring contour for this hill.
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| Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map |
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| Extract from the OS Maps website |
The summit height produced by data via LIDAR is
25.2m, this is a dramatic height revision in relation to its previously
estimated height of c 20m, and therefore comes within the parameters of the
Significant Height Revisions used within this page heading, these parameters
are:
The term Significant Height Revisions applies to
any listed hill whose Ordnance Survey or Harvey map summit spot height has a 2m
or more discrepancy when compared to the survey result produced by the Trimble
GeoXH 6000 or analysis of data produced via LIDAR, also included are hills
whose summit map data is missing an uppermost ring contour when compared to the
data produced by the Trimble or by LIDAR, and also hill’s that do not possess a
summit spot height and whose estimated summit height has a 2m or more
discrepancy when compared to data produced either by the Trimble or by
LIDAR. As heights on different scaled
Ordnance Survey maps are not consistent the height given on the 1:25,000 Explorer
map is being prioritised in favour of the 1:50,000 Landranger map for detailing
these revisions.
Therefore, this hill’s new summit height is 25.2m
and this was produced from data via LIDAR, this is 5.2m higher than its
previously listed estimated height of c 20m which was based on the small
uppermost 20m ring contour on the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map.
The full details for the hill are:
Group: Moelwynion
Summit Height (New Height):
25.2m (data via LIDAR)
Name: Bryn y Bont
OS 1:50,000 map: 115
Summit Grid Reference:
SH 59641 45973
Drop: 20.9m (data via
LIDAR)
My thanks to Aled Williams for sending the details of this
hill to me
Myrddyn Phillips (February 2018)
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