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

Caer Caradoc (SO 477 953)

There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill that is listed in the 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 subsequent LIDAR analysis conducted by Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams.

Caer Caradoc (SO 477 953)

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, these are the 400m Sub-Fours, the 390m Sub-Fours and the 390m Double Sub-Fours.  The list is co-authored by Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams, with the 1^st edition of the booklet containing this list published by Europeaklist in December 2013 and by Haroldstreet in January 2014, with the 2^nd edition of this list due for publication by Mapping Mountains Publications in April 2018.

The Fours - The 400m Hills of England by Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams

The hill is adjoined to the Stiperstones group of hills, which are situated in the county of Shropshire close to the Welsh border, and it is positioned with a minor road to its north-east, the A49 road to its west and the B4571 road to its south, and has the town of Church Stretton towards the south-west.

When the listing that is now known as The Fours - The 400m Hills of England was originally compiled this hill appeared under the transposed name of Caer Caradoc Hill, this was also the name it appeared as when the list was uploaded to the RHB Yahoo group file database.  Subsequently the hill was listed by this same name 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 usage and historical confirmation, or whether map placement is appropriate, and in the case of this hill it was research conducted locally that concluded that the word hill is seldom used in relation to this hill and its name, and that it is predominantly known as Caer Caradoc.

Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in The Fours - The 400m Hills of England is Caer Caradoc and this was derived from local enquiry. 

The full details for the hill are:

Group:  Stiperstones

Name:  Caer Caradoc

Previously Listed Name:  Caer Caradoc Hill 

OS 1:50,000 map:  137, 138

Summit Height:  459.5m (converted to OSGM15, Trimble GeoXH 6000)

Summit Grid Reference:  SO 47745 95390 (Trimble GeoXH 6000)

  

Col Height:  185.3m (LIDAR)

Col Grid Reference:  SO 45734 93768 (LIDAR)

Drop:  274.2m (Trimble GeoXH 6000 summit and LIDAR col)

Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams (September 2018)