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

Moughton Scars (SD 786 711)

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 Moughton Scars (SD 786 711)

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 A65 road to its south-west and the B6479 road to its east, and has the village of Austwick towards the south-west and the village of Horton in Ribblesdale towards the north-east.

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 Moughton, 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 Moughton 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

Hill list authors are prone to list a hill by the name that appears nearest to its summit on contemporary Ordnance Survey maps, without much consideration for its local or historical confirmation, or whether map placement is appropriate, and in the case of this hill it was research conducted by Aled Williams using the Ordnance Survey series of Six-Inch maps that concluded that the name of Moughton Scars is a more appropriate name for this hill.

Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in The Fours - The 400m Hills of England is Moughton Scars and this was derived from the Ordnance Survey series of Six-Inch maps. 

The full details for the hill are:

Group:  Whernside

Name:  Moughton Scars

Previously Listed Name:  Moughton

 

OS 1:50,000 map:  98

Summit Height:  427.5m (LIDAR)

Summit Grid Reference:  SD 78683 71186 (LIDAR) 

 

Col Height:  353.3m (LIDAR)

Col Grid Reference:  SD 78181 72426 (LIDAR)

Drop:  74.2m (LIDAR)

Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams (July 2018)