Mapping Mountains – Significant Name Changes – Y Trichant - The 300m Hills of Wales

Cae Canol (SJ 098 172)

There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill that is listed in the Y Trichant, with the height and drop of the hill derived from a Trimble GeoXH 6000 survey which took place on the 4th May 2016 and subsequent LIDAR analysis.

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

Y Trichant - These are the Welsh hills at and above 300m and below 400m in height that have 30m minimum drop,  with the introduction to the re-naming and publication history of this list appearing on Mapping Mountains on the 13^th May 2017.

The hill is a part of the Y Berwyn range, this is an extensive group of hills in the south-eastern part of north Wales, and the hill is positioned to the south of the B 4393 road and between the town of Llanfyllin to its east north-east and the small community of Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa to its west south-west. 

The Trimble GeoXH 6000 gathering data at the summit of Cae Canol

The hill appeared in the 300m P30 list on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website under the partly invented name Bryn Cefnllwyni, with an accompanying note stating; Name from buildings 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 and in this instance, use the name of a near house and prefix it with the word Bryn.  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.   

 

Bryn Cefnllwyni

323m

SJ099173

125

239

Name from buildings to the North-East

The name this hill is now listed by is Cae Canol, and the land that this name is applicable to was confirmed via 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.

Accessing information on the Tithe map is simplified by the use of a split screen enabling the summit to be pinpointed on the map on the right and for the same point to appear on the Tithe map on the left

The land where the summit of this hill is situated is named as Cae Canol on the Tithe map

The enclosed land where the summit of this hill is situated is given the number 141 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 Cae Canol on the Tithe map; it appears in the county named as Montgomery and in the parish of Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa.

The full details for the hill are:

Group:  Y Berwyn

Name:  Cae Canol

Previously Listed Name:  Bryn Cefnllwyni 

Summit Height:  323.2m (converted to OSGM15)

OS 1:50,000 map:  125

Summit Grid Reference:  SJ 09866 17255 

 

Drop:  41.0m

For details on the survey of Cae Canol

Myrddyn Phillips (November 2016)