Meal Fell (NY 282 337) – Dewey deletion
This is one in a series of retrospective Hill Reclassification posts that detail hills whose status has altered in the listing of the Deweys. These posts tie in with a Change Register giving detail to this list and its alterations since publication in the Mountain tables book.
LIDAR image of Meal Fell (NY 282 337) |
1995 Mountain
tables published by Constable with 373 hills listed as Deweys.
April
2000 Strider (LDWA quarterly booklet) publishes contact details for
David Purchase and Myrddyn Phillips who have found and list 24 and 14 possible
new 500m tops respectively.
It
was expanded versions of the above two lists that formed the basis of the next
publication:
25th
May 2000 List of Possible 500 Metre Tops by Michael Dewey listing 44 hills.
David
Purchase expands his Additional Dewey
500m Hills and Myrddyn Phillips produces lists of English 500m hills to measure and Welsh 500m hills to measure.
These
lists formed the basis of the next publication:
29th
June 2000 Possible/Probable 500’s by Michael Dewey listing 77 hills. Michael adopts following protocol; if one person proposes that a top should
qualify as a 500 by personal survey, and is then confirmed by a second person,
it should then be promoted to the main list.
April
2002 The 500+ Tops of England and Wales – The ‘New Deweys’ published in
the Strider booklet and listing 66 new qualifying hills.
25th May 2006 Rob Woodall republishes Michael’s main and possible/probable lists on the RHB Yahoo group file database.
Postscript: Michael Dewey died on the 5th November 2022. His wife; Gillian wished for this list to be carried on and made provision for it to be co-authored by Myrddyn Phillips. Michael will always be the compiler and originator, it’s just that he’s now got a co-author to safeguard and carry this list on.
Mountain tables by Michael Dewey |
The details for this deletion appear below:
The name the hill was listed by in the Deweys is Meal Fell, and it is adjoined to the Skiddaw group of hills which are situated in the Lake District in England, and it is positioned with the B5299 road to its north, the A591 road to its west and the A66 road to its south, and has the town of Keswick towards the south.
This hill was not included in the original 1995 Constable publication, but with a 550m summit spot height and col contouring between 520m – 530m that appear on the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger and 1:25,000 Explorer map, the interpolated drop value was estimated sufficient for this hill to be a potential new Dewey as the 0pposing 520m ring contours are extremely close together.
Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map |
LIDAR image of Meal Fell (NY 282 337) |
The full details for the hill are:
Name: Meal Fell
OS 1:50,000 map: 89,
90
OS 1:25,000 map: 4
Summit Height: 549.4m (LIDAR)
Summit Grid Reference: NY 28299 33762 (LIDAR)
Col Height: 520.1m (LIDAR)
Col Grid Reference: NY 28565 33765 (LIDAR)
Drop: 29.3m (LIDAR)
Myrddyn Phillips (February 2023)
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