Mapping Mountains – Significant Name Changes – 200m Twmpau

Pt. 249.0m (SN 651 624) 

There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill that is listed in the 200m Twmpau, 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. 249.0m (SN 651 624)

The criteria for the list that this name change applies to are:

200m Twmpau – Welsh hills at or above 200m and below 300m in height that have 30m minimum drop, with an accompanying sub list entitled the 200m Sub-Twmpau, with the criteria for this sub category being all Welsh hills at or above 200m and below 300m in height with 20m or more and below 30m of drop, with the word Twmpau being an acronym standing for thirty welsh metre prominences and upward.                 

The 200m Twmpau by Myrddyn Phillips

The hill is adjoined to the Mynydd Bach group of hills, which are situated in the western part of South Wales (Region B, Sub-Region B1), and it is positioned with the A485 road to its north-east, the B4578 road to its west and the B4342 road to its south, and has the town of Tregaron towards the south-east.

The hill appeared in the original Welsh 200m P30 list on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website, under the transposed name of Bryncipill, with an accompanying note stating; Name from buildings to the South.

Bryncipill

249m

SN652624

146

199

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 transpose the name of a farm and use it for that of the hill.  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, on occasion 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. 249.0m) notation, and for this hill this is such an example.

Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in the 200m Twmpau is Pt. 249.0m, 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:  Mynydd Bach

Name:  Pt. 249.0m

Previously Listed Name:  Bryncipill   

OS 1:50,000 map:  146

Summit Height:  249.0m (LIDAR) 

Summit Grid Reference:  SN 65161 62417 (LIDAR) 

Bwlch Height:  211.5m (LIDAR) 

Bwlch Grid Reference:  SN 65088 63049 (LIDAR) 

Drop:  37.5m (LIDAR) 

 

Myrddyn Phillips (December 2022)