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

Barbon Low Fell (SD 653 814)

There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill that is listed in 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 LIDAR analysis conducted by Myrddyn Phillips.

LIDAR image of Barbon Low Fell (SD 653 814)

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 Whernside group of hills, which are situated in the central Pennines, and it is positioned with the A683 road to its west and the A65 road to its south, and has the small town of Kirkby Lonsdale towards the south-west.

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

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 Hoggs Hill, and this was also the name the hill appeared as when the list was uploaded to the RHB Yahoo group file database.  Subsequently the hill was listed as Hoggs Hills in the 1^st edition of The Fours when the list was published by Europeaklist in December 2013. 

Extract from the Ordnance Survey series of Six-Inch maps

The name of Hoggs Hills and Hogg Hill has consistently been presented on Ordnance Survey maps as applicable to land to the east of the summit of this hill, whereas the name of Barbon Low Fell has appeared in larger text and applicable to land on the upper northerly part of this hill, with the small community of Barbon to the west north-west of this hill.

Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in The Fours - The 400m Hills of England is Barbon Low Fell and this was derived from a variety of different scaled Ordnance Survey maps. 

The full details for the hill are:

Group:  Whernside

Name:  Barbon Low Fell

Previously Listed Name:  Hoggs Hills

 

OS 1:50,000 map:  97

Summit Height:  430.9m (LIDAR)

Summit Grid Reference:  SD 65373 81464 (LIDAR) 

 

Col Height:  398.5m (LIDAR)

Col Grid Reference:  SD 65261 81169 (LIDAR)

Drop:  32.4m (LIDAR)

Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams (July 2018)