Addlebrough (SD 947 878)
There has been a Summit Relocation to a hill that is listed
in The Fours initiated by an Abney
level survey conducted by Jim Bloomer. The Fours is the title for the list of
400m hills of England and is co-authored by Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams
with the 2nd edition of the booklet containing this list published
by Mapping Mountains Publications on the 24.04.18.
The criteria for the list that
this summit relocation affects are:
English hills at and above 400m and below 500m in height that
have a minimum 30m of drop.
The name of the hill is Addlebrough
and it is situated in The Northern and Central Pennines (Region 35, Section 35B)
with its Cardinal Hill being Whernside (SD 738 814), and it is positioned with
the A 684 road and the River Ure to its north and the B 6160 road and the
Bishopdale Beck to its south-east, and has the village of Bainbridge towards
the north north-west.
As the upper section of the hill is a part of
designated open access land an ascent is feasible from most directions, with public
footpaths accessing the open access land from a minor road to the west of the hill
which gives a relatively easy route to the summit.
The summit area of this hill has an uppermost 480m ring contour
on contemporary Ordnance Survey maps positioned at SD 945 880 and this is the
position given for the summit of the hill in the 1st edition of The Fours published by Europeaklist in
December 2013, however since the 1st edition of this list was published
the summit has been Abney levelled and the position of its high point confirmed
as SD 94746 87874.
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| Extract from the Ordnance Survey Interactive Coverage Map hosted on the Geograph website with the summit position circled |
Therefore, the confirmation of the relocated
summit position is at SD 94746 87874 and this consists of featureless ground
just south of a wall, this position is approximately 250 metres south-eastward
from where the summit position was given in the 1st edition of The Fours.
The full details for the hill are:
Cardinal Hill: Whernside
Summit Height: c 481m
Name: Addlebrough
OS 1:50,000 map: 98
Summit Grid Reference (New Position): SD 94746 87874 (Abney level)
Drop: c 94m
Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams (June 2018)
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