Mapping Mountains – Significant Name Changes – 200m Twmpau

Bank Wood (SJ 171 115)

There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill that is listed in the 200m Twmpau, and the following details are in respect of a hill that was surveyed with the Trimble GeoXH 6000 on the 20^th January 2016.

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

200m Twmpau - All Welsh hills at and above 200m and below 300m in height that have 30m minimum drop, with the word Twmpau being an acronym standing for thirty welsh metre prominences and upward.

The hill is a part of the Carnedd Wen range, which is an extensive group of hills situated in the southern part of north Wales.  The hill is positioned between the small community of Meifod to its north-west and Cegidfa (Guilsfield) to its east.

Bank Wood (SJ 171 115)

The hill appeared in the 200m P30 list on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website under the partly invented name Bank Wood Top, with an accompanying note stating; Name from wood to the North-East. 

Bank Wood Top

268m

SJ171115

125

239

Name from wood to the North-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, use the name of the wood which extends and takes in the summit of this hill and add the word Top.  This is not a practice that I now advocate as with research either conducted locally or historically an appropriate name for the hill can usually be found. 

As an appropriate name for this hill already exists on Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer maps, the use of the invented word of Top is unnecessary, therefore the name this hill is now listed by in the 200m Twmpau is Bank Wood.

The full details for the hill are:

Group:  Carnedd Wen

Name:  Bank Wood

Previously Listed Name:  Bank Wood Top 

Summit Height:  266.8m (converted to OSGM15)

OS 1:50,000 map:  125

Summit Grid Reference:  SJ 17129 11574  

Drop:  40.1m (converted to OSGM15)

For details on the survey of Bank Wood

Myrddyn Phillips (October 2016)