Mapping Mountains – Significant Height Revisions – The Welsh P15s

Ysgellog & Minffordd (SH 409 912) 

There has been a Significant Height Revision to a hill that is listed in The Welsh P15s, with the summit height, bwlch height and their locations, the drop and status of the hill derived from LIDAR analysis conducted by Myrddyn Phillips. 

LIDAR image of Ysgellog & Minffordd (SH 409 912)

The criteria for the list that this height revision applies to are:

The Welsh P15s – Welsh hills with 15m minimum drop, irrespective of their height, with an accompanying sub list entitled the Welsh Sub-P15s, with the criteria for this sub category being all Welsh hills with 14m or more and below 15m of drop.  The list is authored by Myrddyn Phillips, with the Introduction to the list appearing on Mapping Mountains on the 10^th May 2019. 

The Welsh P15s by Myrddyn Phillips

The name the hill is listed by is Ysgellog & Minffordd and this was derived from 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 encircled by minor roads with the A5025 road farther to the north and the B5111 road farther to the south-east, and has the town of Amlwch towards the east north-east. 

When the listing that became known as The Welsh P15s was being compiled, this hill was listed with an estimated c 23m of drop based on an estimated c 65m summit height and the 42m bwlch spot height that appeared on the Ordnance Survey Vector Map Local hosted on the Geograph website and which was entitled the Interactive Coverage Map. 

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

However, it was not until LIDAR became available that the details for this hill could be accurately re-assessed.  The LIDAR (Light Detection & Ranging) technique produced highly accurate height data that is now freely available for much of England and Wales. 

The summit height produced by LIDAR analysis is 60.2m and this comes within the parameters of the Significant Height Revisions used within this page heading, these parameters are: 

The term Significant Height Revisions applies to any listed hill whose interpolated height and Ordnance Survey or Harvey map summit spot height has a 2m or more discrepancy when compared to the survey result produced by the Trimble GeoXH 6000 or analysis of data produced via LIDAR, also included are hills whose summit map data is missing an uppermost ring contour when compared to the data produced by the Trimble or by LIDAR analysis. 

Therefore, this hill’s new listed summit height is 60.2m and this was derived from LIDAR analysis, this is 4.8m lower than the previous listed summit height of c 65m which was based on interpolation of what was thought to be an uppermost 65m ring contour that appears on the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map. 

 

ills of Wales, and are reproduced below@

The full details for the hill are: 

Group:  Ynys Môn 

Name:  Ysgellog & Minffordd 

OS 1:50,000 map:  114

Summit Height (New Height):  60.2m (LIDAR) 

Summit Grid Reference:  SH 40921 91218 & SH 40923 91218 & SH 40925 91220 (LIDAR) 

Bwlch Height:  41.7m (LIDAR) 

Bwlch Grid Reference:  SH 40915 91509 (LIDAR) 

Drop:  18.5m (LIDAR) 

 

Myrddyn Phillips (July 2021)