THIS HILL HAS SUBSEQUENTLY BEEN DELETED FROM THE DEWEY LIST
Girdle Fell (NY 697 017) –
Dewey addition
This is one in a series of retrospective Hill
Reclassification posts that detail hills whose status has altered in the
listing of the Deweys and where I have had direct association with the status
change. These posts will tie in with a
forthcoming Change Register giving detail to this list and its alterations
since publication in the Mountain tables
book.
The
500-Metre Tops of England and Wales
are affectionately known after their hill list compiler; Michael Dewey. This list mixes metric and imperial height in
its criteria to bookend up to the 2000ft height band and takes in all hills in
England, Isle of Man and Wales that are 500m and above and below 2000ft
(609.6m) in height that have 30m minimum drop.
This list formed
one of a number of lists that appeared in the Mountain tables book published by Constable in 1995 and at the time
of publication comprised 373 hills with 164 in England, 5 in the Isle of Man
and 204 in Wales. The Deweys have
undergone extensive revision since first publication with the initial stages
forming the basis of this revision given below:
1995 Mountain
tables published by Constable with 373 hills listed as Deweys.
April
2000 Strider (LDWA quarterly booklet) publishes contact details for
David Purchase and Myrddyn Phillips who have found and list 24 and 14 possible
new 500m tops respectively.
It
was expanded versions of the above two lists that formed the basis of the next
publication:
25th
May 2000 List of Possible 500 Metre Tops by Michael Dewey listing 44 hills.
David
Purchase expands his Additional Dewey
500m Hills and Myrddyn Phillips produces lists of English 500m hills to measure and Welsh 500m hills to measure.
These
lists formed the basis of the next publication:
29th
June 2000 Possible/Probable 500’s by Michael Dewey listing 77 hills. Michael adopts following protocol; if one person proposes that a top should
qualify as a 500 by personal survey, and is then confirmed by a second person,
it should then be promoted to the main list.
April
2002 The 500+ Tops of England and Wales – The ‘New Deweys’ published in
the Strider booklet and listing 66 new qualifying hills.
25th
May 2006 Rob Woodall republishes
Michael’s main and possible/probable lists on the RHB Yahoo group file
database.
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| Mountain tables by Michael Dewey |
The details for this addition appear below:
The name the hill is listed by in the Deweys is
Girdle Fell, and it is adjoined to the Cheviot group of hills which are situated
in the north-east of England, and it is positioned with the A68 road and the
Catcleugh Reservoir to its north-east, and has the town of Hawick towards the
north-west.
This hill was not included in the original 1995
Constable publication, but with a 536m summit spot height adjoined to a
triangulation pillar and col contouring between 500m – 510m that appear on the
Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger and 1:25,000 Explorer map, the interpolated
drop value was estimated sufficient for this hill to be a potential new Dewey.
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| Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map |
The above detail was noted by David Purchase and
Myrddyn Phillips who worked independently but also exchanged all data, with
David assessing the hill’s qualification on site. These details were forwarded to the list
author; Michael Dewey and the hill was added to the list on the 28th
July 2001 (this hill has subsequently been deleted from the Dewey list).
The full details for the
hill are:
Name: Girdle Fell
OS 1:50,000 map: 80
OS 1:25,000 map: 16
Summit Height: 536m (triangulation pillar)
Summit Grid
Reference: NY 69767 01768 (triangulation
pillar)
Col Height: c 505m (interpolation)
Col Grid Reference: NY 68894 02214 (interpolation)
Drop: c 31m (triangulation pillar summit and
interpolated col)
Myrddyn Phillips (August
2020)
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