28.10.18 Mynydd Eilian (SH 472 917)
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| Mynydd Eilian (SH 472 917) |
My month long stay in
Nantlle roaming the hills of Eryri and Ynys Môn was coming to an end,
and I had just one last hill I wanted to visit; Mynydd Eilian. As well as this hill being one of the
farthest northerly P30s in the country its map height was of interest, as it has
a 177m spot height on contemporary Ordnance Survey maps, with its near
neighbour of Yr Arwydd (whose summit I had just surveyed) and its map
height of 178m being recognised as the highest point on Ynys Môn,
with the caveat that Mynydd Twr is higher, but this is on the separate island
of Ynys Gybi.
By the time I had found
a convenient parking place just to the north-west of the upper part of the
hill, the late afternoon was illuminated with autumnal sunshine as the sun sank
forever lower and the land bathed in its glow.
It was only a short walk
on the narrow lane to where a public footpath sign indicates where one of the
paths leading up Mynydd Eilian is situated.
This signpost was swamped in dulled brown bracken and led to a stone
foot style constructed in to a wall.
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| The way to the hill |
From here to the summit
of the hill proved a delight with a green path making its way up beside
hillsides scattered in gorse. Three ponies
grazed in an adjacent field, all seemed quiet, with the flow of the northerly
coast disappearing westward and just the beating of waves in the sea below accentuating
the scene with any form of movement.
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| The north Wales coast of Ynys Môn |
The green path led all
the way to this hill’s trig pillar which is perched at its summit in a slight
hollow with the remnants of an old cairn strewn beside and around it. I spent a number of minutes examining the
remains of the old cairn for any rock that could be thought of as being
embedded, and having decided that grass beside the base of and about one metre
from the trig pillar was the highest part of the hill, I positioned the Trimble
on top of my rucksack, measured the offset between its internal antenna and the
ground below and stood back as it gathered its allotted data.
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| Gathering data at the summit of Mynydd Eilian |
It was a pleasure to be
on top of Mynydd Eilian, it proved a wonderful viewpoint with the northern
coast plunging below and the whole of Ynys Môn disappearing in to the
higher peaks of Eryri to the south, and once data were gathered and stored I bade
my farewells to the hill and started my descent.
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| The Trimble set-up position at the summit of Mynydd Eilian |
Heading down the hill I
came across a family on their way up, mother, father and daughter. They were on holiday in a caravan and we
talked about how wonderful the weather was and their impending trip to North
and South Stack tomorrow. I asked where
they lived and smiled at their reply ‘in Shropshire, between Shrewsbury and
Oswestry,’ I laughed and told them that I lived in Welshpool, on occasion tis a
very small world indeed. Waving my
goodbye’s it was only a short walk down the continuation of the green path to
the narrow lane below and onward to my car.
It had been a good month
spent in this part of Wales with 40 P30s visited and surveyed, and place-name
enquiries made with a number of people who I had visited resulting in 16 names
of hills either confirmed through historic and / or local research.
Survey Result:
Mynydd Eilian
Summit Height: 176.9m (converted to OSGM15, Trimble GeoXH 6000) (confirmed as
lower than Yr Arwydd [SH 47242 85417])
Summit Grid Reference: SH 47282 91719 (Trimble GeoXH 6000)
Bwlch Height: 53.3m (LIDAR)
Bwlch Grid Reference: SH 42808 86451 (LIDAR)
Drop: 123.6m (Trimble GeoXH 6000 summit and LIDAR bwlch)
Dominance: 69.86% (Trimble GeoXH 6000 summit and LIDAR bwlch)
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