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

Pt. 489.0m (NY 487 164)

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 subsequent LIDAR analysis conducted by Myrddyn Phillips.

LIDAR image of Pt. 489.0m (NY 487 164)

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-Four category, the 390m Sub-Four category and the Double Sub-Four category, with this hill included in the main list of P30 hills.  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 High Street group of hills, which are situated in the Eastern Fells of the Lake District (Region 34, Section 34C), and it is positioned with Haweswater Reservoir to its south, and has the small community of Bampton towards the north-east.

When the listing that is now known as The Fours - The 400m Hills of England was originally compiled this hill appeared under the name of Bampton Common, this was also the name it appeared as when the list was uploaded to the RHB Yahoo group file database.  Subsequently the hill was listed as Bampton Fell in the 1st edition of The Fours when the list was published by Europeaklist in December 2013. 

When a hill is seemingly unnamed on the map, hill list compilers are prone to either invent a name for the hill or follow the name given the hill in previous hill listings with little consideration for local or historical confirmation.  This is not a practice that is now advocated as with time and inclination place-name data can be improved either by asking local people or by examining historical documents, through this form of research an appropriate name for the hill can usually be found.

Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map

Prior to publication of the 2^nd edition of The Fours - The 400m Hills of England enquiries were made with two well-known Lake District guide book authors, resulting in the following ‘this top also carries no known local name’, and the advice that ‘one would need to talk to genuine locals and shepherds to give definitive answers’. 

On such occasions when research is conducted and an appropriate name for the hill is not found, the listing protocol is to use the point (Pt. 489.0m) notation, and for this hill this is such an example.

Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in the The Fours – The 400m Hills of England is Pt. 489.0m, and this is being used as an appropriate name for the hill either through historic research and/or local enquiry has not been found.

  

The full details for the hill are:

Group:  High Street

Name:  Pt. 489.0m 

Previously Listed Name:  Bampton Fell 

OS 1:50,000 map:  90

Summit Height:  489.0m (LIDAR)                                                           

Summit Grid Reference:  NY 48710 16475 (LIDAR) 

Col Height:  452.4m (LIDAR) 

Col Grid Reference:  NY 48164 16293 (LIDAR)

Drop:  36.6m (LIDAR)

Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams (May 2018)