Whitecombe Moss (SD 151
873)
There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill
that is listed in The Fours, with
this being announced when the 2nd edition of The Fours was published by Mapping Mountains Publications on the 24th
April 2018.
The criteria for the list that this name change
applies to are:
The Fours – English hills at and above 400m and below 500m
in height that have 30m minimum drop.
Accompanying the main list of The
Fours are three categories of sub hills, with this hill listed as a 400m Sub-Four. The criteria for 400m Sub-Four status are all English hills at and above 400m and
below 500m in height that have 20m or more and below 30m of drop.
The list is co-authored by Myrddyn Phillips and
Aled Williams, with the 1st edition of the list having been
published by Europeaklist in December 2013 and by Haroldstreet in January 2014,
with the 2nd edition of the list published by Mapping Mountains
Publications and by Haroldstreet on the 24th April 2018.
The hill is situated in the Southern Fells of the
Lake District and is placed in Region 34, Section 34D with its Cardinal Hill
being The Old Man of Coniston (SD 272 978).
The hill is positioned with the A 595 road to its west and its east, and
has the small town of Millom towards its south- south-east.
When the listing that is now known as The Fours was originally compiled this
hill was not included as it did not meet the criteria then used, however this
list has now been standardised and interpolated height and drop values also added, it was subsequently listed under the name of Stoupdale Head in the 1st
edition of The Fours when the list
was published by Europeaklist in December 2013.
Prior to publication of the 2nd edition of The Fours enquiries were made with two
well-known Lake District guide book authors, resulting in the name of Stoupdale
Head being considered as ‘very plausible’,
and the advice that ‘one would need to
talk to genuine locals and shepherds to give definitive answers’.
Therefore, as there is no definite confirmation of
Stoupdale Head being an appropriate name for this hill, the name this hill is
now listed by in The Fours is Whitecombe
Moss, which is the name appearing nearest the summit of this hill on a number
of different scaled Ordnance Survey maps.
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| Extract from the Ordnance Survey series of Six-Inch maps |
The full details for the hill are:
Group: The Old Man of
Coniston
Name: Whitecombe Moss
Previously Listed Name:
Stoupdale Head
Summit Height: 472m
OS 1:50,000 map: 96
Summit Grid Reference:
SD 15150 87370
Drop: 26m
Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams (June 2018)
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