Mapping Mountains – Hill Reclassifications – Y Trichant – The 300m Hills of Wales

Pt. 387.4m (SN 746 843) – Sub-Trichant deletion

There has been a deletion to the list of 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. 387.4m (SN 746 843)

The criteria for the list that this deletion 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 being listed by the point (Pt. 387.4m) notation as an appropriate name for it either through local enquiry and/or historic research has not been found by the author, and it is adjoined to the Banc Llechwedd Mawr group of hills, which are situated in the northern part of South Wales (Region B, Sub-Region B1), and it is positioned with minor roads to its north, south-west and east, and the A44 road farther to its south, and has the village of Ponterwyd towards the south.

When the original 300m height band of Welsh P30 hills were published on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website, this hill was not included in the Hills to be surveyed sub list, as it was considered not to meet the criteria then used for this sub category.

After the sub list was standardised, and interpolated heights and drop values also included the details for this hill were re-evaluated and it was listed with an estimated c 20m of drop, based on the 386m summit spot height that appears on the Ordnance Survey 1:25,ooo Explorer map (with the contemporary Ordnance Survey online 1:50,000 Landranger map showing a typo of 336m) and an estimated c 366m bwlch height based on interpolation of 10m contouring between 360m – 370m. 

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

However, it was not until LIDAR became available that the details for this hill could be accurately re-assessed.  The LIDAR (Light Detection & Ranging) technique produced highly accurate height data that is now freely available for much of England and Wales.

Therefore, the deletion of this hill from Sub-Trichant status is due to LIDAR analysis, resulting in a 387.4m summit height and a 368.8m bwlch height, with these values giving this hill 18.7m of drop, which is insufficient for it to be classified as a Sub-Trichant. 

 

The full details for the hill are: 

Group:  Banc Llechwedd Mawr 

Name:  Pt. 387.4m 

OS 1:50,000 map:  135

Summit Height:  387.4m (LIDAR)                                                           

Summit Grid Reference:  SN 74678 84375 (LIDAR) 

Bwlch Height:  368.8m (LIDAR) 

Bwlch Grid Reference:  SN 74599 84483 (LIDAR) 

Drop:  18.7m (LIDAR) 

 

Myrddyn Phillips (December 2022)