Pt. 318.8m (SN 710 768)
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.
LIDAR image of Pt. 318.8m (SN 710 768) |
Y Trichant - The 300m Hills of Wales by Myrddyn Phillips |
Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map |
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.
However, on occasion even when research is conducted an appropriate name for the hill may not be found, and on such occasions the listing protocol is to use the point (Pt. 318.8m) notation, and for this hill this is such an example.
Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in the Y Trichant – The 300m Hills of Wales is Pt. 318.8m, and this is being used as the author has not found an appropriate name for the hill either through historic research and/or local enquiry.
Group: Y Garn
Name: Pt. 318.8m
Previously Listed Name: Field
OS 1:50,000 map: 135,
147
Summit Height: 318.8m (LIDAR)
Summit Grid Reference: SN 71015 76877 (LIDAR)
Bwlch Height: 293.3m (LIDAR)
Bwlch Grid Reference: SN 70554 76787 (LIDAR)
Drop: 25.5m (LIDAR)
My thanks to Aled Williams for advise relating to the listed name of this hill
Myrddyn Phillips
(February 2023)
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