Panelau (SH 613 501)
There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill
that is listed in the Y Trichant,
with the bwlch height and its location confirmed by LIDAR analysis and
subsequently the summit, its location and drop of the hill confirmed by a survey
with the Trimble GeoXH 6000 which were conducted by Myrddyn Phillips, with
latter taking place on the 18th October 2018.
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| Panelau (SH 613 501) |
The criteria for the list that this name change applies to
are:
Y Trichant – Welsh hills at or above 300m and below 400m in
height that have 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 the renaming of it appearing on Mapping Mountains
on the 13th May 2017.
The hill is adjoined to the Yr
Wyddfa group hills which are situated in the north-western part of North Wales
(Region A, Sub-Region A1), and it is positioned with the A498 road and Llyn
Dinas to its south-east, and has the small community of Beddgelert towards its
south-west.
The hill originally appeared
in the 300m P30 list on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website under the name of Gallt
y Llyn, which is a name that appears on this hill’s lower easterly slopes on
contemporary Ordnance Survey maps, with an accompanying note
stating; aka Panelau.
Gallt y Llyn
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338m
|
115
|
17
|
aka Panelau
|
During my early hill
listing I paid little regard to name placement on the map, or the meaning of
names and to what feature the name was appropriately applied to. Therefore I prioritised names for listing
purposes that I now understand are either inappropriate or where another name
is viewed as being more appropriate.
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| 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 historic 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. One of the historic maps now available is the
Ordnance Survey One-Inch ‘Old Series’ map, which was the first map made
publicly available by the Ordnance Survey and it is this map that has the name
Panelau positioned close to this hill’s summit.
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| Extract from the Ordnance Survey One-Inch 'Old Series' map |
The One-Inch ‘Old Series’
was the first map that Ordnance Survey published, and they were based on the
proceeding Draft Surveyors map. Their
publication culminated from the whole of Britain being surveyed between 1791
and 1874 and the detail gathered therein produced at a scale of one inch to the
mile and published in sheet format between 1805 and 1874. The One-Inch ‘Old Series’ maps for the whole
of Wales are now available online; they are also available in map format as
enlarged and re-projected versions to match the scale and dimensions of the Ordnance
Survey 1:50,000 Landranger series and are published by Cassini. This series of maps forms another important
part in the study of Welsh upland place-names and bridge the time frame leading
to the production of the Ordnance Survey base map of the Six-Inch series.
Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in
the Y Trichant is Panelau, and this
name was derived from the Ordnance Survey One-Inch ‘Old Series’ map.
The full details for the
hill are:
Group: Yr Wyddfa
Name: Panelau
Previously Listed
Name: Gallt y Llyn
OS 1:50,000 map: 115
Summit Height: 337.6m (converted to OSGM15)
Summit Grid
Reference: SH 61301 50197
Bwlch Height: 287.2m (converted to OSGM15)
Bwlch Grid Reference: SH 61341 50439
Drop: 50.4m
My thanks to Aled
Williams for advice relating to this hill name
Myrddyn Phillips (April
2019)
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