Cae Seri (ST 448 978)
There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill
that is listed in the 200m Twmpau, with
the summit height and its location confirmed by LIDAR analysis conducted by Myrddyn
Phillips and the bwlch height, its location, the drop and status of the hill
confirmed by detail on contemporary Ordnance Survey maps.
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| LIDAR image of Cae Seri (ST 448 978) |
The criteria for the list that this name change
applies to are:
200m Twmpau - Welsh hills at or above 200m and below 300m in height with 30m
minimum drop, with an accompanying sub list entitled the 200m Sub-Twmpau with
the criteria for this sub category being all Welsh hills at or above 200m and
below 300m 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
Gwent Is Coed group of hills which are situated
in the south-eastern part of South Wales (Region C, Sub-Region C3), and it is positioned with the B4235 road to its west
and south, and the B4293 road to its east, and has the town of Cas-gwent
(Chepstow) towards the south-east.
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| Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map |
When the original 200m height band of Welsh P30
hills were published on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website this hill was listed
under the name of Mynydd-bach, with
an accompanying note stating; Name from buildings
to the South-West.
| Mynydd-bach | 261m | ST449979 | 171 | 14 | Name from buildings to the South-West |
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 is probably a farm and use it for that
of 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.
As the summit of this hill comprises bounded land
the details for it were examined on the Tithe map. 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.
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| Extract from the Tithe map |
The enclosed land where the summit of this hill is
situated is given the number 253 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 Seri in the apportionments (written as Cae Serry and
incorrectly transposed in the online Tithe details as Cae Jerry), with the details on the Tithe map appearing in the parish of Wolvesnewton and in the
county named as Monmouth.
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| Extract from the apportionments |
Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in
the 200m Twmpau is Cae Seri, and this
name was derived from the Tithe map.
The full details for the hill are:
Group: Gwent Is Coed
Name: Cae Seri
Previously Listed Name:
Mynydd-bach
OS 1:50,000 map: 171
Summit Height: 261.1m (LIDAR)
Summit Grid Reference:
ST
44881 97883 (LIDAR)
Bwlch Height: c 228m (interpolation)
Bwlch Grid Reference:
ST 47587 98456 (interpolation)
Drop: c 33m (LIDAR
summit and interpolated bwlch)
Myrddyn Phillips (May 2020)
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