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

 

Pt. 303.45m (SH 874 163) 

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 LIDAR analysis conducted by Myrddyn Phillips. 

LIDAR image of Pt. 303.45m (SH 874 163)

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 13^th May 2017, and the Introduction to the Mapping Mountains publication of the list appearing on the 1^st January 2022. 

Y Trichant - The 300m Hills of Wales by Myrddyn Phillips

The hill is adjoined to the Aran Fawddwy group of hills, which are situated in the south-western part of North Wales (Region A, Sub-Region A3), and it is positioned with minor roads to its west and south, and the A470 road farther to its south-west, and has the small town of Dinas Mawddwy towards the south-west. 

The hill appeared in the original Welsh 300m P30 list on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website, under the transposed name of Tarren Fach, which is a prominent name that appears to the north-west of the summit of this hill on the contemporary Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map.

Tarren Fach

304m

SH875163

124/125

23

 

During my early hill listing I paid little regard to name placement on the map, or the meaning of names and to what feature the name was appropriately applied to.  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. 

Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map

However, occasionally even when research is conducted an appropriate name for the hill may not be found, and on such occasions the listing protocol is to use the point (Pt. 303.45m) notation, and for this hill this is such an example. 

Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in the Y Trichant – The 300m Hills of Wales is Pt. 303.45m, and this is being used as the author has not found an appropriate name for the hill either through historic research and/or local enquiry. 

 

The full details for the hill are: 

Group:  Aran Fawddwy 

Name:  Pt. 303.45m 

Previously Listed Name:  Tarren Fach 

OS 1:50,000 map:  124, 125

Summit Height:  303.45m (LIDAR)                                                           

Summit Grid Reference:  SH 87457 16343 (LIDAR) 

Bwlch Height:  271.1m (LIDAR) 

Bwlch Grid Reference:  SH 87614 16397 (LIDAR) 

Drop:  32.4m (LIDAR) 

 

Myrddyn Phillips (January 2022)