Mapping Mountains – Hill Reclassifications – Y Trichant – The 300m Hills of Wales

Ffridd Rhyd y Biswail (SH 793 067) – Sub-Trichant addition

There has been an addition to the list of 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 detail on contemporary maps produced from Ordnance Survey data. 

The criteria for the list that this addition 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, and the Introduction to the Mapping Mountains publication of the list appearing on the 1^st January 2022. 

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

The name the hill is listed by is Ffridd Rhyd y Biswail, and it is adjoined to the Aran Fawddwy group of hills, which are situated in the south-western part of North Wales (Region A, Sub-Region A3), and it is positioned with the A487 road to its west, the A489 road to its south and the A470 road to its east, and has the town of Machynlleth towards the south-west. 

When the original 300m 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. 

After the sub list was standardised, and interpolated heights and drop values also included the details for this hill were re-evaluated and it was listed with an estimated c 24m of drop, based on the 312m summit spot height that appears on the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map and an estimated c 288m bwlch height, based on interpolation of 10m contouring between 280m – 290m. 

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

Therefore, the addition of this hill to Sub-Trichant status is due to detail on contemporary maps produced from Ordnance Survey data, resulting in a 312m summit height and an estimated c 288m bwlch height, with these values giving this hill an estimated c 24m of drop, which is sufficient for it to be classified as a Sub-Trichant. 

 

The full details for the hill are: 

Group:  Aran Fawddwy 

Name:  Ffridd Rhyd y Biswail 

OS 1:50,000 map:  124

Summit Height:  312m (spot height)                                                           

Summit Grid Reference:  SH 79341 06792 (spot height) 

Bwlch Height:  c 288m (interpolation) 

Bwlch Grid Reference:  SH 79570 06874 (interpolation) 

Drop:  c 24m (spot height summit and interpolated bwlch) 

 

Myrddyn Phillips (February 2022)