Mapping Mountains – Significant Height Revisions – Y Trichant

Cefn Llanbister (SO 116 733)

There has been a Significant Height Revision to a hill that is listed in the Y Trichant, and which was initiated by LIDAR analysis and followed by a survey with the Trimble GeoXH 6000 both of which were conducted by Myrddyn Phillips, with the latter taking place on the 03.07.18 in warm and clear conditions.

LIDAR image of Cefn Llanbister

The criteria for the list that this height revision applies to are:

Y Trichant – Welsh hills at or above 300m and below 400m in height with 30m minimum drop, with an accompanying sub list entitled the Sub-Trichant with the criteria for this sub category being all Welsh hills at or above 300m and below 400m in height with 20m or more and below 30m of drop.  The list is authored by Myrddyn Phillips, with the Introduction to the list and its renaming appearing on Mapping Mountains on the 13^th May 2017.

The name of the hill is Cefn Llanbister and it is placed in the Beacon Hill group of hills, which are situated in the north-eastern part of Mid and West Wales (Region B, Sub-Region B1), and it is positioned with the Afon Ieithon (River Ithon) and the A 483 road to its west and the B 4356 road to its north, and has the small community of Llanbister at its base to the west of the summit.

As the summit of the hill is a part of open access land it can be approached from most directions with public footpaths accessing this land from the west and east, with the most convenient access to the hill via a track that leaves the B 4356 road just to the north of the summit.

When the original Welsh 300m P30 list was published on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website this hill was listed with a 373m summit height based on the spot height that appears on the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map, with an accompanying note stating 376m at SO GR117732 on 1986 1:50000 map.

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

Prior to LIDAR analysis and the subsequent survey with the Trimble GeoXH 6000 the listed height of this hill had been updated to 376m based on the spot height on the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger map.

Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger map

The 377.5m (converted to OSGM15) summit height produced by the Trimble GeoXH 6000 is not a dramatic increase from the 376m spot height, but does come within the parameters of the Significant Height Revisions used within this page heading, these parameters are:

The term Significant Height Revisions applies to any listed hill whose interpolated height and Ordnance Survey or Harvey map summit spot height has a 2m or more discrepancy when compared to the survey result produced by the Trimble GeoXH 6000 or analysis of data produced via LIDAR, also included are hills whose summit map data is missing an uppermost ring contour when compared to the data produced by the Trimble or by LIDAR analysis.  As heights on different scaled Ordnance Survey maps are not consistent the height given on the 1:25,000 Explorer map is being prioritised in favour of the 1:50,000 Landranger map for detailing these revisions.

Therefore, this hill’s new summit height as surveyed with the Trimble GeoXH 6000 is 377.5m (converted to OSGM15) which is 1.5m higher than its updated height of 376m and 4.5m higher than its original listed height of 373m which appears on the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map.

The Trimble GeoXH 6000 gathering data at the summit of Cefn Llanbister which resulted in this hill's significant height revision

ills of Wales, and are reproduced below@

The full details for the hill are:

Group:  Beacon Hill

Name:  Cefn Llanbister

OS 1:50,000 map:  136, 148

Summit Height (New height):  377.5m (converted OSGM15)

Summit Grid Reference:  SO 11690 73303

Bwlch Height:  335.3m (converted to OSGM15)

Bwlch Grid Reference:  SO 12399 74601

  

Drop:  42.2m (converted to OSGM15)

For details on the survey that significantly revised the summit height of this hill

Myrddyn Phillips (November 2018)