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

 

Bron Wennyly (SX 158 799) 

There has been a Significant Name Change 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 Aled Williams and Myrddyn Phillips. 

LIDAR image of Bron Wennyly (SX 158 799)

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 the highest point in its own group and therefore the group takes on its name; the Bron Wennyly group of hills, which are situated in Bodmin Moor in the south-west of the country, and it is positioned with a minor road to its north, the A39 road to its north-west, the B3266 road to its west and the A30 road to its south-east, and has the town of Camelford towards the north-west.

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 Brown Willy; which is a prominent name that appears close to the summit of this hill 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

This was also the name the hill was listed as 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.

The intricacies of language and prioritising one in favour of another for listing a hill is fraught with complication, however as a general protocol the authors prioritise originating names for languages such as Cornish over their anglicised versions.

Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in The Fours - The 400m Hills of England is Bron Wennyly, with the prioritised language protocol being used and the spelling following that recommended in Standard Written Form which is adopted by the Cornish Language Partnership for educational and official use.                                                                                 

The full details for the hill are:

Group:  Bron Wennyly

Name:  Bron Wennyly

Previously Listed Name:  Brown Willy 

OS 1:50,000 map:  201

Summit Height:  420.3m (LIDAR)

Summit Grid Reference:  SX 15873 79998 (LIDAR)

Col Height:  97.6m (LIDAR)

Col Grid Reference:  SX 26873 01530 (LIDAR)

Drop:  322.7m (LIDAR)

 

Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams (April 2024)