Ffridd Ganol (SH 846
754)
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 detail on contemporary
Ordnance Survey maps.
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.
The hill is adjoined to the Rhos group of
hills which are situated in the northern part of North Wales (Region A,
Sub-Region A2), and it is positioned with the B5113 road to its north-west, the
B5381 road to its south and the B5383 road to its north-east, and has the town
of Bae Colwyn (Colwyn Bay) towards the north.
The hill appeared in the
original Welsh 300m P30 list published on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website, under
the partly invented and transposed name of Bryn
Glan Gors, with an accompanying note stating; Name from buildings to the South.
| Bryn Glan Gors | 300m | SH846754 | 116 | 17 | Name from buildings to the South |
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 what I presumed to be buildings
and prefix it with the word Bryn. 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. As this hill comprises
bounded
land the Tithe map was consulted.
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| Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer 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.
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| Extract from the Tithe map |
The enclosed land where the summit of this hill is
situated is given the number 826 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 Ffridd Ganol in the apportionments, with the details on the Tithe map appearing in the parish of Llandrillo in Rhos [sic] and in the counties named as
Denbigh and Caernarfon.
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| Extract from the apportionment |
Therefore, the name this hill is
now listed by in the Y Trichant – The 300m
Hills of Wales is Ffridd Ganol, and this was derived from the Tithe map.
The full details for the
hill are:
Group: Rhos
Name: Ffridd Ganol
Previously Listed
Name: Bryn Glan Gors
OS 1:50,000 map: 116
Summit Height: 300m (spot height)
Summit Grid
Reference: SH 84600 75431 (spot height)
Bwlch Height: c 276m (interpolation)
Bwlch Grid
Reference: SH 84752 75197 (interpolation)
Drop: c 24m (spot height summit and interpolated
bwlch)
Myrddyn Phillips
(February 2020)
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