Craig Dew (SS 710 942)
There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill
that is listed in the 30-99m Twmpau,
with the summit height, its location, the drop and status of the hill confirmed
by LIDAR analysis conducted by Myrddyn Phillips.
LIDAR image of Craig Dew (SS 710 942) |
The criteria for the list that this name change applies to
are:
30-99m Twmpau - Welsh hills at or above 30m and below 100m in height with 30m minimum
drop, with an accompanying sub list entitled the 30-99m Sub-Twmpau with the criteria for this sub category being all
Welsh hills at or above 30m and below 100m in height with 20m or more and below
30m of drop, with the word Twmpau
being an acronym standing for thirty
welsh metre prominences and upward.
The hill is adjoined to the
Fforest Fawr group of hills, which are
situated in the western part of South Wales (Region C, Sub-Region C2), and it
is positioned with the Crymlyn Bog to its north-west, the Tennant Canal and the
A483 road to its south, the B4290 road to its east and the M4 to its
north-east, and has the town of Castell-nedd (Neath) towards its north-east.
The hill originally appeared in the 30-99m P30
list on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website under a partly invented, transposed and
directional name of Jersey Marine Hill
East Top, with
an accompanying note stating; Name from
district to the South.
Jersey Marine Hill East Top
|
90c
|
170
|
165
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Name from district to the South
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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 or as in
this instance transpose the name of what I presumed to be a district and add
the words Hill and East Top to it. 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.
Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map |
Since publication of these P30 lists on Geoff
Crowder’s v-g.me website there have been a number of Ordnance Survey maps made
available online, some of these are historical such as the series of Six-Inch
maps on the National Library of Scotland website, whilst others are current and
digitally updated such as the Vector Map Local hosted on the Geograph website,
and which is entitled the Interactive Coverage Map. Both of these maps name a small crag on the
southern slopes of this hill as Craig Dew and as it is appropriate in listing
terms to use the name of a main named feature for that of the hill, it is this
name that this hill is now listed by.
Extract from the Ordnance Survey Vector Map Local hosted on the Geograph website |
Therefore the name this hill is now listed by in
the 30-99m Twmpau is Craig Dew, and
this was derived from the series of Ordnance Survey Six-Inch maps and the
Ordnance Survey Vector Map Local hosted on the Geograph website, and which is
entitled the Interactive Coverage Map.
With the latter mapping only becoming publicly available after the
original Welsh P30 lists were published on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website.
The full details for the hill are:
Group: Fforest Fawr
Name: Craig Dew
Previously Listed Name:
Jersey Marine Hill East Top
OS 1:50,000 map: 170
Summit Height: 91.9m
(LIDAR)
Summit Grid Reference:
SS 71087 94369 (LIDAR)
Bwlch Height: 64.7m
(LIDAR)
Bwlch Grid Reference:
SS 71139 94515 (LIDAR)
Drop: 27.1m
Myrddyn Phillips (April 2019)
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