Ffridd Newydd (SH 677 011)
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 conducted by Myrddyn Phillips.
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 13th May 2017, and the Introduction to the Mapping Mountains
publication of the list appearing on the 1st January 2022.
Y Trichant - The 300m Hills of Wales by Myrddyn Phillips |
The hill appeared in the original Welsh 300m P30 list on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website, under the transposed name of Braich Ddu, which is a prominent name that appears near the summit of this hill on the contemporary Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map.
Braich Ddu | 308m | SH677012 | 135 | 23 |
During my early hill listing I paid little regard to name placement on the map, or the meaning of names and to what feature the name was appropriately applied to. Therefore, I prioritised names for listing purposes that I now understand are either inappropriate or where another name is viewed as being more appropriate, with the previously listed name of Braich Ddu more applicable to land that does not take in the summit of this hill.
Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map |
As the summit of this hill comprises bounded land the details for it were examined on the Tithe map. The term Tithe map is generally given to a map of a Welsh or English parish or township and which was prepared after the 1836 Tithe Commutation Act. This act allowed tithes to be paid in cash rather than goods. The Tithe maps gave names of owners and occupiers of land in each parish and importantly for place-name research they also included the name of enclosed land. This enclosed land is usually based on a field system, however not every field is given a name, but many are and especially so in Wales.
Extract from the Tithe map |
Extract from the apportionments |
The full details for the hill are:
Group: Tarren y Gesail
Name: Ffridd Newydd
Previously Listed Name: Braich Ddu
OS 1:50,000 map: 135
Summit Height: 306.8m (LIDAR)
Summit Grid Reference: SH 67750 01152 (LIDAR)
Bwlch Height: 267.2m (LIDAR)
Bwlch Grid Reference: SH 67664 01327 (LIDAR)
Drop: 39.6m (LIDAR)
Myrddyn Phillips (March
2022)
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