Borfa Ganol (SN 879 901)
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 detail on contemporary maps produced from Ordnance Survey data.
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 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 |
Bryn Panel | 340c | SN880902 | 135/136 | 214/215 |
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.
Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map |
Extract from the Tithe map |
Extract from the apportionments |
The full details for the hill are:
Group: Pumlumon
Name: Borfa Ganol
Previously Listed Name: Bryn Panel
OS 1:50,000 map: 135,
136
Summit Height: 348m (spot height)
Summit Grid Reference: SN 87991 90139 (hand-held GPS via DoBIH)
Bwlch Height: c 306m (interpolation)
Bwlch Grid Reference: SN 87487 90021 (interpolation)
Drop: c 42m (spot height summit and interpolated bwlch)
Myrddyn Phillips
(January 2023)
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