Banc yr Haul (SN 802 828)
There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill
that is listed in the Yr Uchafion and
500m Twmpau, with the drop and status
of the hill initially determined by a basic levelling survey conducted by
Myrddyn Phillips on the 22nd July 2000 and confirmed by a level and
staff line survey conducted by Graham Jackson and Myrddyn Phillips on the 19th
February 2010, with subsequent LIDAR summit analysis conducted by Aled Williams
and the summit height, bwlch height and their locations determined by a Trimble
GeoXH 6000 survey conducted by Myrddyn Phillips on the 10th April
2019.
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| Banc yr Haul (SN 802 828) |
The criteria for the two listings that this name
change applies to are:
Yr Uchafion – Welsh hills at or above 500m in height that
have 15m minimum drop. The list is
co-authored by Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams, with the Introduction to this list appearing on Mapping Mountains on the 4th November 2015.
500m Twmpau – Welsh hills at or above 500m and below 600m in
height that have 30m minimum drop, with an accompanying sub category entitled
the 500m Sub-Twmpau consisting of all
Welsh hills at or above 500m and below 600m in height that have 20m or more and
below 30m of drop. With the word Twmpau
being an acronym standing for thirty
welsh metre prominences and upward. The list is authored
by Myrddyn Phillips.
The hill is adjoined to the Elenydd group of hills
which are situated in the central part of the Mid and West Wales Region (Region
B, Sub-Region B2), and it is positioned with the A44 road to its west, north
and east, and has the villages of Ponterwyd towards the west south-west and
Llangurig towards the east south-east.
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| Graham during the line survey of Banc yr Haul |
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| Graham beside the summit of Banc yr Haul during our line survey |
The hill first made an appearance in a hill list
in 1997 when John Kirk listed it in his Kirk’s
BIG Mountain List as Hirgoed Ddu (S), using a name that appeared to the
north of the hill on contemporary Ordnance Survey maps of the day, this list
remains unpublished but is available via enquiry with the author.
When this hill was first included in the listings
that later became known as Yr Uchafion
and the 500m Twmpau it was listed by
the directional name of Cripiau South South-east Top, with this name being
taken from the hill positioned to its north north-west.
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| Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map |
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 if a hill was seemingly unnamed on
the map I either invented a name or used a combination of a directional name
for it. This is not a practice that I
now advocate as with time and inclination place-name information can be
improved either by historic research and / or local enquiry.
It was during the compilation of the Yr Uchafion list that I first made
place-name enquiries with local farmers, grazers and landowners, during this
process there were many people who gave me an enormous amount of information and
one of these was Erwyd Howells who worked as a shepherd, and is now an author
and another person who realises the insignificant and importance of documenting
upland place-names, and it was Erwyd who gave the name of Banc yr Haul for this
hill.
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| The Trimble GeoXH 6000 gathering data at the summit of Banc yr Haul |
Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in the Yr Uchafion and the 500m Twmpau is Banc yr Haul and this was derived from local
enquiry.
The full details for the hill are:
Group: Elenydd
Name: Banc yr Haul
Previously Listed Name: Cripiau
South South-east Top
OS 1:50,000 map: 135, 136
Summit Height: 525.6m
(converted to OSGM15)
Summit Grid Reference: SN 80202
82864
Bwlch Height: 495.0m (converted
to OSGM15)
Bwlch Grid Reference: SN 80293
82632
Drop: 30.6m (line survey and
Trimble GeoXH 6000)
Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams (August 2019)
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