Mapping Mountains – Hill Reclassifications – 100m Twmpau

 

Rhuddlan Fawr (SH 486 812) – 100m Sub-Twmpau addition 

There has been an addition to the list of 100m Twmpau, 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: 

100m Twmpau – Welsh hills at or above 100m and below 200m in height that have 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. 

The 100m Twmpau by Myrddyn Phillips

The name the hill is listed by is Rhuddlan Fawr and this was confirmed via the Tithe map, and it is adjoined to the Ynys Môn group of hills, which are situated in the north-western part of North Wales (Region A, Sub-Region A1), and it is positioned with a minor road to its north-east and the B511o road to its north-west, and has the village of Benllech towards the east north-east. 

When the original 100m height band of Welsh P30 hills were published on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website this hill was not included in the Hills to be surveyed sub list, as it was considered not to meet the criteria then used for this sub category. 

Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map

After the sub list was standardised, and interpolated heights and drop values also included the details for this hill were re-assessed and it was listed with 22m of drop, based on the 114m summit spot height adjoined to a triangulation pillar and the 92m bwlch spot height that appears on the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger map at SH 48784 81428 and appeared on the Ordnance Survey Vector Map Local hosted on the Geograph website and which was entitled the Interactive Coverage Map at SH 48697 81460. 

Therefore, the addition of this hill to 100m Sub-Twmpau status is due to detail on contemporary maps produced from Ordnance Survey data, resulting in a 114m summit height and a 92m bwlch height, with these values giving this hill 22m of drop which is sufficient for it to be classified as a 100m Sub-Twmpau. 

 

The full details for the hill are: 

Group:  Ynys Môn 

Name:  Rhuddlan Fawr 

OS 1:50,000 map:  114, 115

Summit Height:  114m (triangulation pillar) 

Summit Grid Reference:  SH 48673 81249 (triangulation pillar) 

Bwlch Height:  92m (spot height) 

Bwlch Grid Reference:  SH 48784 81428 & SH 48697 81460 (spot height) 

Drop:  22m (triangulation pillar summit and spot height bwlch) 

 

Myrddyn Phillips (March 2021)