Mapping Mountains – Significant Name Changes – The Fours

Totridge Fell (SD 634 487)

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 Ward’s Stone (SD 591 587).  The hill is positioned with the M6 to its west and the B 6478 road to its east, and has the village of Dunsop Bridge towards the north-east and Chipping towards the south south-west.

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

Extract from the current Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger 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 in the case of this hill it was research conducted by Aled to names used on older Ordnance Survey maps including the series of Six-Inch maps that concluded that the name of Totridge Fell is a more appropriate name for this hill.

Extract from the Ordnance Survey series of Six-Inch maps

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

Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in The Fours is Totridge Fell and this was derived from a variety of older Ordnance Survey maps including that of the series of Six-Inch maps. 

The full details for the hill are:

Cardinal Hill:  Ward’s Stone

Name:  Totridge Fell

Previously Listed Name:  Totridge

 

Summit Height:  496m

OS 1:50,000 map:  102, 103

Summit Grid Reference:  SD 63456 48732

  

Drop:  52m

Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams (August 2018)