Coed Uchaf (SH 649 055)
There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill
that is listed in the 200m Twmpau, with
the summit height and drop 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 – Welsh hills at or above 200m and below 300m in
height that have 30m minimum 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 is positioned between two river valleys
with the Afon Dysynni to its north-west and the Afon Fathew to its south, and
has the small community of Abertrinant towards the west, Bryn-crug towards the south-west
and Abergynolwyn towards the east north-east.
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| Coed Uchaf (SH 649 055) |
The hill appeared in the 200m P30 list on Geoff
Crowder’s v-g.me website under the invented name of Bryn Coed-y-gof with an
accompanying note stating; Name from
buildings to the West.
Bryn Coed-y-gof
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217m
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124
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23
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Name from buildings to the West
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During my early hill listing I thought it
appropriate to either invent a name for a hill, or use a name that appeared
near to the summit of the hill on Ordnance Survey maps of the day. My preference was to use farm names and put Pen, Bryn
or Moel in front of them. This is not a practice that I now advocate as
with time and inclination place-name data can be improved either by asking
local people or by examining historic documents, through this form of research
an appropriate name for the hill can usually be found.
When visiting this and adjoining hills I met a
number of local farmers, including Stephen Jones who farms from
Llanerch-goediog (SH 640 050), which is situated directly below the hill
towards the south-west, Stephen is aged 55 and a Welsh speaker and except for
three years when in university he has lived at this farm all of his life. 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 Tomos
Lewis’ land, who farms from Nant-y-mynach (SH 644 048), and that it is known as
Coed Uchaf, with lower land also known as Coed Canol and Coed Isaf.
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| Stephen Jones |
I later met Joanne Redman on the summit of this
hill, Joanne is Tomos’ daughter and was out on her quad bike taking photos of
her father’s farm, we talked about this and other hills and Joanne told me that
the name of the land, including where the summit of this hill is situated, is Coed
Uchaf, she also confirmed that the names of Coed Canol and Coed Isaf are used
for lower adjacent land and suggested that I talk with her father, whose
telephone number she kindly gave me.
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| Joanne Redman |
The following day I contacted Tomos and two days
later then visited him, Tomos is aged 60 and a Welsh speaker, and has lived at Nant-y-mynach
for 54 years, having moved there from the council houses in Abertrinant. During our conversations Tomos proved very
knowledgeable and gave me many hill names that do not appear on any Ordnance
Survey map, and one of them was the name for the land that takes in the summit
of this hill; Coed Uchaf.
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| Tomos Lewis |
Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in
the 200m Twmpau is Coed Uchaf and
this name was derived from local enquiry.
The full details for the hill are:
Group: Tarennydd
Name: Coed Uchaf
Previously Listed Name:
Bryn Coed-y-gof
Summit Height: 216.5m
(converted to OSGM15)
OS 1:50,000 map: 124
Summit Grid Reference:
SH 64901 05582
Drop: 41.0m (converted
to OSGM15)
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| The Trimble GeoXH 6000 gathering data at the summit of Coed Uchaf |
Myrddyn Phillips (August 2018)
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