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

Brown Wardle (SD 898 186)

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 a Trimble GeoXH 6000 survey and LIDAR analysis conducted by Myrddyn Phillips.

Brown Wardle (SD 898 186)

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 A671 road to its west and the A6033 road to its east, and has the town of Rochdale towards the south.

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 Brown Wardle Hill, which is a prominent name that appears beside the summit of the hill on the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger and 1:25,000 Explorer map, 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, without much consideration for its local or historical confirmation, or whether map placement is appropriate, and after research conducted by Aled Williams showing that the name of this hill is presented as Brown Wardle and Brown Wardle Hill on historical and contemporary Ordnance Survey maps respectively, the decision was taken to prioritise the name of Brown Wardle for the 2^nd edition of the list published by Mapping Mountains Publications and by Haroldstreet on the 24^th April 2018.

Extract from the Ordnance Survey One-Inch 'Old Series' map

Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in The Fours - The 400m Hills of England is Brown Wardle and this was derived from the Ordnance Survey One-Inch 'Old Series' map.

The full details for the hill are:

Group:  Cowpe Moss

Name:  Brown Wardle

Previously Listed Name:  Brown Wardle Hill

 

OS 1:50,000 map:  109

Summit Height:  400.3m (converted to OSGM15, Trimble GeoXH 6000)

Summit Grid Reference:  SD 89820 18696 (Trimble GeoXH 6000)

  

Col Height:  349.9m (LIDAR)

Col Grid Reference:  SD 90044 19103 (LIDAR)

Drop:  50.35m (Trimble GeoXH 6000 summit and LIDAR col)

Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams (August 2018)