Mynydd Bach (SJ 051 123)
There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill
that is listed in the Y Trichant,
with the summit height, drop and status of the hill being confirmed by a Trimble
GeoXH 6000 survey conducted by Myrddyn Phillips which took place on the 26th
January 2018.
The criteria for the list that this name change
applies to are:
Y Trichant – Welsh hills at and above 300m and below 400m in
height that have 30m minimum drop, with an accompanying sub category entitled
the Sub-Trichant consisting of all
Welsh hills at and above 300m and below 400m in height that have 20m or more
and below 30m of drop. The list is
authored by Myrddyn Phillips and the Introduction to the list and the re-naming
and publication history was published on Mapping Mountains on the 13th
May 2017.
The hill is adjoined to the Y Berwyn range of
hills which are situated in the south-eastern part of North Wales (Region A,
Sub-Region A4), and is positioned between the Afon Banwy to the south and the
Afon Efyrnwy (River Vyrnwy) to the north-east, with the A 458 road to its
south-west and the small community of Dolanog which is to its east north-east.
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| Mynydd Bach (SJ 051 123) |
The hill appeared in the 300m P30 list on Geoff
Crowder’s v-g.me website under the name of Pen-y-graig. 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 a building which I thought that of the hill.
| Pen-y-graig | 323m | SJ051123 | 125 | 239 |
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local people or by examining historical documents, through this form of
research an appropriate name for the hill can usually be found, and in the case
of this hill it was a local farmer who owns the land where the summit of the
hill is situated who gave the name of Mynydd Bach.
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| Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Historical map |
The local farmer is Trefor Jones who farms from
Maes Celynog which is situated towards the south of the hill. Whilst visiting this hill and its adjacent
P30 I was fortunate to meet Trefor who was on his way up to the lower field of
this hill in his tractor. He stopped and
we chatted for a number of minutes with him explaining that the hill is known
as Mynydd Bach and it is on land that he owns having bought it off an adjacent
farm. Trefor is a Welsh speaker and gave
me the translation of the hill’s name as small
mountain.
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| Trefor Jones |
Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in
the Y Trichant is Mynydd Bach and
this name was derived from local enquiry.
The full details for the hill are:
Group: Y Berwyn
Name: Mynydd Bach
Previously Listed Name:
Pen-y-graig
Summit Height: 324.9m
(converted to OSGM15)
OS 1:50,000 map: 125
Summit Grid Reference:
SJ 05100 12325
Drop: 28.5m (converted
to OSGM15)
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| The Trimble GeoXH 6000 gathering data at the summit of Mynydd Bach |
Myrddyn Phillips (February 2018)
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