Upper Hill (SN 995 783)
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 Upper Hill (SN 995 783) |
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.
Y Trichant - The 300m Hills of Wales by Myrddyn Phillips |
The hill is adjoined to the Hirddywel group of
hills, which are situated in the northern
part of South Wales (Region B, Sub-Region B2), and it is positioned with minor roads to its north-west,
south and east, and the B4518 road to its west, and has the town of Llanidloes
towards the north-west.
The hill appeared in the original 300m height band of Welsh P30 hills published on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website, under the
transposed name of Garth Fach, with
an accompanying note stating; Name from
buildings to the East.
Garth Fach | 354m | SN995783 | 136/147 | 214 | Name from buildings to the East |
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 a name of a farm and use it for that of the hill. 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.
Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map |
As the summit of this hill comprises bounded land
the details for it were examined on the Tithe map. The
term Tithe map is generally given to a map of a Welsh or English parish or
township and which was prepared after the 1836 Tithe Commutation Act. This act allowed tithes to be paid in cash
rather than goods. The Tithe maps gave
names of owners and occupiers of land in each parish and importantly for place-name
research they also included the name of enclosed land. This enclosed land is usually based on a
field system, however not every field is given a name, but many are and
especially so in Wales.
Extract from the Tithe map |
The enclosed land where the summit of this hill is
situated is given the number 749 on the Tithe map, this can be cross referenced
against the apportionments; it is these apportionments that give the name of
the owner or occupier of the land as well as the name of the land. The land where the summit of this hill is
situated is named as Upper Hill in
the apportionments, with the details on the Tithe map appearing
in the parish of Llandinam and in the county named as Montgomeryshire.
Extract from the apportionments |
Therefore, the name this hill is
now listed by in the Y Trichant – The 300m
Hills of Wales is Upper Hill and this was derived from the Tithe map.
The full details for the hill are:
Group: Hirddywel
Name: Upper Hill
Previously Listed Name: Garth Fach
OS 1:50,000 map: 136,
147
Summit Height: 353.85m (LIDAR)
Summit Grid Reference: SN 99565 78366 (LIDAR)
Bwlch Height: 329.5m (LIDAR)
Bwlch Grid Reference: SN 99937 78706 (LIDAR)
Drop: 24.4m (LIDAR)
Myrddyn Phillips (January 2025)
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