DUE TO SUBSEQUENT LIDAR ANALYSIS THIS HILL HAS BEEN RECLASSIFIED FROM WELSH HIGHLAND SUB STATUS TO WELSH HIGHLAND P15 STATUS
Pt. 576m (SH 559 475) – 500m Sub-Uchaf
addition
There has been an addition to the listing of The Welsh Highlands – Uchafion Cymru, with the summit height, bwlch height
and their locations, the drop and status of the hill derived from detail on
contemporary maps produced from Ordnance Survey data.
The criteria for the list that this addition applies to are:
The Welsh Highlands –
Uchafion Cymru
– This is the revised draft title for the Welsh 500m P15s list that takes
in all hills in Wales at or above 500m in height with 15m minimum drop. Accompanying the main list are three sub
lists, these are; 500m Sub-Uchaf, 490m Sub-Uchaf and the Double Sub category,
with this hill being added as a 500m Sub-Uchaf.
The criteria for which are all Welsh hills at or above 500m in height
with 14m or more and below 15m of drop.
The list is co-authored by Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams with the
Introduction to the list being published on Mapping Mountains in November 2015
and an update relating to the list appearing on Mapping Mountains on the 19th June 2019.
As the authors do not know an
appropriate name for the hill either from historic research or from local
enquiry it is being listed by the point (Pt. 576m) notation, and it is adjoined
to the Moel Hebog group of hills, which are situated in the north-western part of North Wales (Region A,
Sub-Region A1), and it is positioned
with the B4418 road to its north, the A487 road to its west and the A4085 road
to its north-east, and has the village of Beddgelert towards the east.
This hill was not included as a P14 Sub in the
original list of Welsh 500m P15s that later became known as Yr Uchafion and latterly as The Welsh Highlands – Uchafion Cymru, as
with no separate uppermost ring contour there was no map evidence to suggest
that any form of hill with qualifying prominence existed.
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| Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map |
Since the original compilation of this list there
are now a number of interactive maps originated from Ordnance Survey data that
are available online. One of these is
the mapping on the Magic Maps website, and this map gives this hill a summit
spot height of 576m which is positioned at SH 55928 47522.
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| Extract from the Magic Maps website |
Another resource now available online is the
WalkLakes website which hosts an interactive map originated from the Ordnance
Survey Open Data programme. This map has
many spot heights not on other publicly available Ordnance Survey maps and for
this hill it also shows the 576m summit spot height.
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| Extract from the WalkLakes website |
The details for this hill were also re-examined
against the Ordnance Survey non-contour Vector Map Local hosted on the Geograph
website and which is entitled the Interactive Coverage Map. This is another map that has many spot
heights that do not appear on other publicly available Ordnance Survey maps and
it also gives a 576m summit spot height.
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| Extract from the Ordnance Survey non-contour Vector Map Local hosted on the Geograph website |
The details for this hill were also re-assessed
when the OS Maps website became available online. This is the replacement for OS Get-a-map and
has contours at 5m intervals which are proving consistently more accurate
compared to the 5m contours that sometimes appear on Ordnance Survey 1:25,000
Explorer maps and used to appear on the online Vector Map Local. This mapping has bwlch contouring between
560m – 565m, with interpolation giving an estimated bwlch height of c 562m.
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| Extract from the OS Maps website |
Therefore, the addition of this hill to 500m
Sub-Uchaf status is due to detail on contemporary maps produced from Ordnance
Survey data, resulting in a 576m summit height and an estimated c 562m bwlch
height, with these values giving this hill c 14m of drop, which is sufficient
for it to be classified as a 500m Sub-Uchaf.
The full details for the hill are:
Group: Moel Hebog
Name: Pt. 576m
OS 1:50,000 map: 115
Summit Height: 576m
(spot height)
Summit Grid Reference:
SH 55928 47522 (spot height)
Bwlch Height: c 562m
(interpolation)
Bwlch Grid Reference:
SH 55895 47581 (interpolation)
Drop: c 14m (spot
height summit and interpolated bwlch)
For the additions, deletions and reclassifications to The Welsh Highlands – Uchafion Cymru
reported on Mapping Mountains please consult the following Change Registers:
Aled Williams and Myrddyn Phillips (July 2020)
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