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

Cridden (SD 799 240)

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 Cridden (SD 799 240)

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-Four category, the 390m Sub-Four category and the 390m Double Sub-Four category.  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 Cowpe Moss group of hills, which are situated in the southern Pennines, and it is positioned with the A56 road to its west and the A682 road to its east, and has the town of Haslingden towards the south-west and Rawtenstall towards the south-east.

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

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

Hill list authors are prone to list a hill by the name that appears nearest to its summit on contemporary Ordnance Survey maps, with little 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is appropriate, and in the case of this hill it was research conducted by Aled Williams to names used in a number of historical documents that concluded that the name of Cridden is more appropriate for this hill.

History of the Original Parish of Whalley by T. D. Whitaker, 1818

Extract from the History of the Original Parish of Whalley

Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in The Fours - The 400m Hills of England is Cridden and this was derived from a variety of historic documents.

The full details for the hill are:

Group:  Cowpe Moss

Name:  Cridden

Previously Listed Name:  Cribden Hill 

OS 1:50,000 map:  103

Summit Height:  400.8m (LIDAR)

Summit Grid Reference:  SD 79946 24034 (LIDAR) 

 

Col Height:  341.1m (LIDAR)

Col Grid Reference:  SD 79800 26053 (LIDAR)

Drop:  59.7m (LIDAR)

Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams (August 2018)