Mapping Mountains – Significant Name Changes – Y Trichant – The 300m Hills of Wales

 

Y Figyn (SJ 175 085) 

There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill that is listed in the Y Trichant – The 300m Hills of Wales, with the summit height, bwlch height and their locations, the drop and status of the hill derived from LIDAR analysis and a subsequent Trimble GeoXH 6000 survey conducted by Myrddyn Phillips. 

Y Figyn (SJ 175 085)

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

Y Trichant – The 300m Hills of Wales.  Welsh hills at or above 300m and below 400m in height that have 30m minimum drop, with an accompanying sub list entitled the Sub-Trichant with the criteria for this sub category being all Welsh hills at or above 300m and below 400m in height with 20m or more and below 30m of drop.  The list is authored by Myrddyn Phillips, with the Introduction to the list and the renaming of it appearing on Mapping Mountains on the 13^th May 2017. 

Y Trichant - The 300m Hills of Wales by Myrddyn Phillips

The hill is adjoined to the Carnedd Wen group of hills which are situated in the south-eastern part of North Wales (Region A, Sub-Region A4), and it is positioned with the B4392 road to its north, a minor road to its immediate south and the A458 road farther to its south, and has the town of Y Trallwng (Welshpool) towards the east. 

When the original 300m height band of Welsh P30 hills were published on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website this hill was listed under the invented and transposed name of Bryn Graig, with an accompanying note stating; Name from buildings to the East.

Bryn Graig

309m

SJ175086

125

215/239

Name from buildings to the East

 

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.  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. 

Since publication of these P30 lists on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website there have been a number of Ordnance Survey maps made available online, some of these are historic such as the series of Six-Inch maps on the National Library of Scotland website, whilst others are current and digitally updated such as the old Vector Map Local hosted on the Geograph website and which was entitled the Interactive Coverage Map, and the interactive mapping on the Magic Maps and WalkLakes websites, and it is the Ordnance Survey series of Six-Inch maps that give the name of Y Figyn for the area taking in this hill. 

Extract from the Ordnance Survey series of Six-Inch maps

The detail given on the Ordnance Survey series of Six-Inch maps is also reproduced on the contemporary Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger and 1:25,000 Explorer map, with the name placement on the 1:50,000 Landranger being more appropriate compared to its 1:25,000 Explorer counterpart. 

Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger map

Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in the Y Trichant – The 300m Hills of Wales is Y Figyn, and this was derived from the Ordnance Survey series of Six-Inch maps with the detail reproduced on the contemporary Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger and 1:25,000 Explorer map.

 

The full details for the hill are: 

Group:  Carnedd Wen 

Name:  Y Figyn 

Previously Listed Name:  Bryn Graig 

OS 1:50,000 map:  125

Summit Height:  309.1m (converted to OSGM15, Trimble GeoXH 6000)                                                   

Summit Grid Reference:  SJ 17527 08594 (Trimble GeoXH 6000) 

Bwlch Height:  230.1m (LIDAR) 

Bwlch Grid Reference:  SJ 18071 08434 (LIDAR) 

Drop:  79.0m (Trimble GeoXH 6000 summit and LIDAR bwlch) 

 

Myrddyn Phillips (June 2021)