Mapping Mountains – Significant Name Changes – The Fours - The 400m Hills of England

Stoney Pound Hill (SO 234 808)

There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill that is listed in the The Fours – The 400m Hills of England, with the summit height, col height and their locations, the drop and status of the hill derived from a Trimble GeoXH 6000 summit survey and LIDAR col analysis conducted by Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams.

LIDAR image of Stoney Pound Hill (SO 234 808)

The criteria for the list that this name change applies to are:

The Fours – The 400m Hills of England.  English hills at or above 400m and below 500m in height that have 30m minimum drop, accompanying the main list are three categories of sub hills; the 400m Sub-Fours, the 390m Sub-Fours and the 390m Double Sub-Fours.  The list is co-authored by Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams and the 2^nd edition of the booklet containing this list was published by Mapping Mountains Publications on the 24^th April 2018.

The Fours - The 400m Hills of England by Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams

The hill is adjoined to the Cilfaesty group of hills, which are situated in the Welsh borders, and it is positioned encircled by minor roads, with the B4368 road to its north, the B4355 road to its south-west and the A488 road towards the east south-east, and has the small community of Newcastle to its north-east and the town of Clun to its east.

When the list that is now known as The Fours - The 400m Hills of England was originally compiled this hill appeared under the directional name of Hurgin North Top.  The name was then given as Garn Rock Hill~ (Hurgin: N Top) when this list was uploaded to the RHB Yahoo group file database and data then augmented from Clem Clements.

Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger map

During my early hill listing I thought it appropriate to either invent a name for a hill, or use a name that appeared near to the summit of the hill on Ordnance Survey maps of the day.  This included using a directional name based on supplanting the name of a near hill and adding a directional component to it.  This is not a practice that I now advocate as with time and inclination place-name data can be improved either by asking local people or by examining historic documents, through this form of research an appropriate name for the hill can usually be found, and in the case of this hill the name Stoney Pound Hill was derived from research conducted by Aled Williams with the local farming community.

Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in The Fours - The 400m Hills of England is Stoney Pound Hill and this was derived from local enquiry. 

The full details for the hill are:

Group:  Cilfaesty

Name:  Stoney Pound Hill

Previously Listed Name:  Hurgin North Top 

OS 1:50,000 map:  137

Summit Height:  438.3m (converted to OSGM15, Trimble GeoXH 6000)

Summit Grid Reference:  SO 23445 80810 (Trimble GeoXH 6000)

Col Height:  376.9m (LIDAR)

Col Grid Reference:  SO 22872 80617 (LIDAR)

  

Drop:  61.5m (Trimble GeoXH 6000 summit and LIDAR col)

Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams (February 2018)