Foel Blaen Rhisglog (SN
696 468)
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.
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Y Trichant - The 300m Hills of Wales by Myrddyn Phillips |
The hill is adjoined to the Esgair Wen group of
hills, which are situated in the central
part of South Wales (Region B, Sub-Region B1), and it is positioned with as minor road to its south,
the B4343 road to its north-west and the A482 road to its south-west, and has
the town of Llanbedr Pont Steffan (Lampeter) towards the west.
Blaen Rhisglog Plantation | 375m | SN696468 | 146 | 187/199 |
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 or as in this instance transpose the name of a conifer plantation and use it for that of the hill. If a more appropriate name can be found 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 a more appropriate name for the hill can usually be found.
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Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map |
Since the original publication of the Welsh P30
lists on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website there have been a number of maps made
available online. Some of these are
historic such as the series of Six-Inch maps on the National Library of
Scotland website. Whilst others were
digitally updated such as the Ordnance Survey Vector Map Local that was hosted
on the Geograph website and which was entitled the Interactive Coverage Map,
whilst others are current and digitally updated such as the interactive mapping
on the Magic Maps and WalkLakes websites, and it is the series of Ordnance
Survey Six-Inch maps that form the basis of the change in the listed name of
this hill.
The Ordnance Survey series of Six-Inch maps formed the base map Ordnance
Survey used for many decades leading to the production of the 1:10,000 Series
of maps, both have now been superseded by the digitised Master Map. The series of Six-Inch maps are excellent for
name placement and especially so compared to the contemporary Ordnance Survey
1:25,000 Explorer map, and it is the series of Six-Inch maps that have the name
of Foel Blaen Rhisglog adjacent to the summit of this hill.
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Extract from the Ordnance Survey series of Six-Inch maps |
The name of Blaen Rhisglog Plantation and that of Foel Blaen Rhisglog are
associated with the farm of Blaen-rhisglog which is positioned to the south of
the hill. In this instance a hill name
is favoured over that of a plantation name.
Therefore, the name this hill is
now listed by in the Y Trichant – The 300m
Hills of Wales is Foel Blaen Rhisglog and this was derived from the Ordnance Survey series
of Six-Inch maps.
The full details for the
hill are:
Group: Esgair Wen
Name: Foel Blaen Rhisglog
Previously Listed
Name: Blaen Rhisglog Plantation
OS 1:50,000 map: 146
Summit Height: 375m (spot height)
Summit Grid
Reference: SN 69640 46891 (spot height)
Bwlch Height: c 323m (interpolation)
Bwlch Grid
Reference: SN 70311 47304 & SN 70414
47322 (interpolation)
Drop: c 52m (spot height summit and interpolated
bwlch)
Myrddyn Phillips (June
2023)
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