Mapping Mountains – Significant Name Changes – The Fours

Brown Wardle (SD 898 187)

There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill that is listed in The Fours, with this being announced when the 2^nd edition of The Fours was published by Mapping Mountains Publications on the 24^th April 2018.

The criteria for the list that this name change applies to are:

The Fours – English hills at or above 400m and below 500m in height that have 30m minimum drop.

The list is co-authored by Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams, with the 1^st edition of the list having been published by Europeaklist in December 2013 and by Haroldstreet in January 2014, with the 2^nd edition of the list published by Mapping Mountains Publications and by Haroldstreet on the 24^th April 2018.

The hill is situated in the Southern Pennines and is placed in Region 36 with its Cardinal Hill being Cowpe Moss (SD 834 193).  The hill is positioned with the A 671 road to its west and the A 6033 road to its east, and has the town of Rochdale towards the south.

When the listing that is now known as The Fours was originally compiled this hill appeared under the name of Brown Wardle 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 Brown Wardle Hill in the 1^st edition of The Fours when the list was published by Europeaklist in December 2013. 

Extract from the contemporary 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 showing that this hill’s name 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 Fours.

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

Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in The Fours is Brown Wardle and this was derived from historic Ordnance Survey maps. 

The full details for the hill are:

Cardinal Hill:  Cowpe Moss

Name:  Brown Wardle

Previously Listed Name:  Brown Wardle Hill

 

Summit Height:  400m

OS 1:50,000 map:  109

Summit Grid Reference:  SD 89821 18701

  

Drop:  48m

Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams (August 2018)