Foel (SH 632 045)
There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill
that is listed in the 200m Twmpau, with
the summit height, drop and status of the hill being confirmed by a Trimble
GeoXH 6000 survey which took place on the 14th May 2018.
The criteria for the list that this name change
applies to are:
200m Twmpau – All Welsh hills at or above 200m and below 300m
in height that have 30m minimum drop, with an accompanying sub category
entitled the 200m Sub-Twmpau
consisting of all Welsh hills at or above 200m and below 300m in height that
have 20m or more and below 30m of drop.
With the word Twmpau being an
acronym standing for thirty welsh metre prominences and upward.
The hill is adjoined to the
Tarennydd range of hills which are situated in the south-western part of North
Wales (Region A, Sub-Region A3), and it overlooks the B 4405 road and the Afon Fathew
to the south-east and the Afon Dysynni to the north-west, and has the small
community of Dolgoch to its east and Bryn-crug to its south-west.
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| Foel (SH 632 045) |
The hill appeared in the 200m P30 list on Geoff
Crowder’s v-g.me website under the name of Foel
Wyllt. During my early hill listing
I paid little regard to name placement on the map, or the meaning of names and
to what feature the name was appropriately applied to. Therefore I prioritised names for listing
purposes that I now understand are either inappropriate or where another name
is considered as being more appropriate.
By using the name Foel Wyllt for this hill I was conveniently using the
name that appears nearest its summit on contemporary Ordnance Survey maps and
which is more strictly applicable to the whole land mass taking in a number of
what can be considered as separate hills.
Foel Wyllt
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288m
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135
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23
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The placement of names on Ordnance Survey maps can
be best confirmed either through historical research and / or through local
enquiry, and in the case of this hill it was the local farmer who owns and grazes
sheep on the land that the summit of this hill is situated who gave the name of
Foel and explained that Foel Wyllt takes in the whole mountain (as in, the
whole land mass), including what hill list compilers and hill baggers would
consider as other separate hills.
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| Extract from the Ordnance Survey One Inch 'Old Series' map |
The local farmer is Stephen Jones who farms from Llanerch-goediog
which is situated directly below the hill to its east. After visiting this hill I called at the farm
and met Stephen, who is aged 55 and a Welsh speaker and has lived at this farm
for the whole of his life except for three years while at university. We spent a number of minutes talking about the
hills and their names, and two other names that Stephen also gave me will be
documented in separate Significant Name Changes posts. Stephen told me that this hill is a part of
his land and that he knows it as Foel (Stephen used this name without the
definite article ‘Y’).
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| Stephen Jones |
Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in
the 200m Twmpau is Foel and this name
was derived from local enquiry.
The full details for the hill are:
Group: Tarennydd
Name: Foel
Previously Listed Name:
Foel Wyllt
Summit Height: 288.3m
(converted to OSGM15)
OS 1:50,000 map: 135
Summit Grid Reference:
SH 63297 04583
Drop: 30.6m (converted
to OSGM15)
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| The Trimble GeoXH 6000 gathering data at the summit of Foel |
Myrddyn Phillips (July 2018)
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