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.
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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 2nd edition of the booklet containing this
list was published by Mapping Mountains Publications on the 24th April 2018.
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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be improved either by asking local people or by examining historical documents,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.
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Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map |
Prior to publication of the 2nd 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)
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