Mapping Mountains – Significant Name Changes – 100m Twmpau

Cae Cefn (ST 059 748)

There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill that was listed in the 100m Twmpau, with the summit height and its location confirmed by a Leica GS15 survey conducted by John Barnard, Graham Jackson and Myrddyn Phillips which took place on the 4^th November 2013, and the bwlch height and its location, the drop and status of the hill confirmed by LIDAR analysis conducted by Myrddyn Phillips.

The Leica GS15 gathering data at the summit of Cae Cefn

The criteria for the list that this name change applies to are:

100m Twmpau - Welsh hills at or above 100m and below 200m in height with 30m minimum drop, with an accompanying sub list entitled the 100m Sub-Twmpau with the criteria for this sub category being all Welsh hills at or above 100m and below 200m 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.

LIDAR image of Cae Cefn (ST 059 748)

The hill is adjoined to the Bro Morgannwg group of hills, which are situated in the southern part of South Wales (Region C, Sub-Region C2), and it is positioned with the A48 road to its south-east and minor roads to its west, north and east, has the city of Caerdydd (Cardiff) towards the east and the town of Y Bont-faen (Cowbridge) to the west.

The hill appeared in the original Welsh 100m P30 list on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website under the transposed name of Lillypot, without any accompanying note implying that I didn’t even realise that this name was not that of the hill.

Lillypot

140m

ST059749

170

151

Clem/Yeaman substituting Pan y Lladron at 037740.

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 later realised is that of a farm and use it for the hill.  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

Extract from the Ordnance Survey Vector Map Local hosted on the Geograph website

As this hill comprises bounded land the Tithe map was consulted.  The term Tithe map is generally given to a map of a Welsh or English parish or township and which was prepared after the 1836 Tithe Commutation Act.  This act allowed tithes to be paid in cash rather than goods.  The Tithe maps gave names of owners and occupiers of land in each parish and importantly for place-name research they also included the name of enclosed land.  This enclosed land is usually based on a field system, however not every field is given a name, but many are and especially so in Wales.

Extract from the Tithe map

The enclosed land where the summit of this hill is situated is given the number 832 on the Tithe map, this can be cross referenced against the apportionments; it is these apportionments that give the name of the owner or occupier of the land as well as the name of the land.  The land where the summit of this hill is situated is named as Cae Cefn in the apportionments, with the details on the Tithe map appearing in the parish of Pendoylan and in the county named as Glamorgan.

Extract from the apportionments

Therefore, the name this hill is documented by and would have been listed in the 100m Twmpau if its drop was sufficient is Cae Cefn, and this was derived from the Tithe map.

The full details for the hill are:

Group:  Bro Morgannwg

Name:  Cae Cefn

Previously Listed Name:  Lillypot

 

OS 1:50,000 map:  170

Summit Height:  136.2m (Leica GS15)

Summit Grid Reference:  ST 05910 74886 (Leica GS15)

Bwlch Height:  116.25m (LIDAR)

Bwlch Grid Reference:  ST 04273 74542 (LIDAR)

 

Drop:  19.9m (Leica GS15 summit and LIDAR bwlch)

Myrddyn Phillips (October 2019)