Mapping Mountains – Significant Name Changes – The Fours – The 400m Hills of England

 

Western White Barrow (SX 653 654) 

There has been a Significant Name Change that is retrospective to a hill that is listed in the The Fours – The 400m Hills of England, with the summit height, col height and their locations, the drop and status of the hill derived from LIDAR analysis conducted by Myrddyn Phillips. 

LIDAR image of Western White Barrow (SX 653 654)

The criteria for the list that this name change applies to are:

The Fours – The 400m Hills of England.  English hills at or above 400m and below 500m in height that have 30m minimum drop, accompanying the main list are three categories of sub hills, these are the 400m Sub-Fours, the 390m Sub-Fours and the 390m Double Sub-Fours.  The list is co-authored by Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams and the 2^nd edition of the booklet containing this list was published by Mapping Mountains Publications on the 24^th April 2018.

The Fours - The 400m Hills of England by Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams

The hill is adjoined to the Ryder’s Hill group of hills, which are situated in Dartmoor in the south-west of the country, and it is positioned with the B3357 road to its north and the A38 road to its south, and has the town of Ivybridge towards the south.

When the listing that is now known as The Fours – The 400m Hills of England was originally compiled by Myrddyn Phillips this hill appeared under the name of Quickbeam Hill; which is a prominent name that appears to the south of its summit on the contemporary Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger and 1:25,000 Explorer map, and this was also the name the hill appeared as when the list was uploaded to the RHB Yahoo group file database. 

Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map

However, the listed name of this hill was amended and given as Western White Barrow when the 1^st edition of the The Fours now co-authored by Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams was published by Europeaklist in December 2013 and when the 2^nd edition of The Fours – The 400m Hills of England was published by Mapping Mountains Publications in April 2018.

Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in The Fours - The 400m Hills of England is Western White Barrow and this was derived from a variety of Ordnance Survey maps, including the contemporary Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map.

                                                                                

The full details for the hill are:

Group:  Ryder’s Hill

Name:  Western White Barrow

Previously Listed Name:  Quickbeam Hill 

OS 1:50,000 map:  202

Summit Height:  481.1m (LIDAR)

Summit Grid Reference:  SX 65357 65476 & SX 65355 65481 (LIDAR)

Col Height:  446.2m (LIDAR)

Col Grid Reference:  SX 64732 66796 (LIDAR)

Drop:  34.9m (LIDAR)

 

Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams (April 2024)