Gwernaffel (SO 259 712)
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 survey which took place on the 19th April 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 Beacon Hill range of hills, which are situated in the north-eastern part of
Mid and West Wales (Region B, Sub-Region B1), and is positioned with the A488
road to its south and has the small town of Tref-y-clawdd (Knighton) towards
its east north-east.
The hill appeared in the
300m P30 list on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website under the partly invented name
of Moel Gilla, with an accompanying
note stating; Name from cwm & wood to
the North.
Moel Gilla
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380c
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137/148
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201
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Name from cwm & wood to the North.
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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 cwm
and wood and prefix this with the word Moel. 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data can be improved either by asking local people or by examining historical
documents, through this form of research an appropriate name for the hill can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.
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| Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map |
When visiting this and adjacent
hills I was fortunate to speak with a number of local farmers including John
and Liz Roberts of the Racecourse Farm (SO 267 732), who I met at the summit of
Waun Sidan (SO 250 726), it was an easy task to point to this hill across the
intervening Cwm Gilla and ask its name, John told me it is known as Gwernaffel
after the estate house of the same name which is situated at SO 267 706 and
which has association with Sir Robert Green Price.
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| John and Liz Roberts of the Racecourse Farm |
Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in
the Y Trichant is Gwernaffel, and
this was derived from local enquiry.
The full details for the
hill are:
Group: Beacon Hill
Name: Gwernaffel
Previously Listed
Name: Moel Gilla
Summit Height: 380.4m (converted to OSGM15)
OS 1:50,000 map: 137, 148
Summit Grid
Reference: SO 25947 71212
Drop: 34.3m (converted to OSGM15)
Myrddyn Phillips (June 2018)
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