Llan Ucha Nantgwared (SN 878 316)
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 Llan Ucha Nantgwared (SN 878 316) |
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, and the Introduction to the Mapping Mountains
publication of the list appearing on the 1st January 2022.
Y Trichant - The 300m Hills of Wales by Myrddyn Phillips |
The hill is adjoined to the Mynydd Epynt group of
hills, which are situated in the central
part of South Wales (Region B, Sub-Region B1), and it is positioned with minor roads to its west and
south, and the A40 road farther to its south-west, and has the village of Pontsenni
(Sennybridge) towards the south-east.
The hill appeared in the original 300m height band of Welsh P30 hills published on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website, under the transposed
name of Twyn y Wern, with an
accompanying note stating; Name from hill
to the North.
Twyn y Wern | 380c | SN878316 | 160 | 12 | Name from hill to the North |
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 a name of a different hill and use it for that of this
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 |
As the summit of this hill comprises bounded land
the details for it were examined on the Tithe 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.
Extract from the Tithe map |
The enclosed land where the summit of this hill is
situated is given the number 490 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 Llan Ucha (of
the farm) Nantgwared in the apportionments, with the details on the Tithe map appearing in the parish of Llywel and in the
county named as Brecon.
Extract from the apportionments |
Therefore, the name this hill is
now listed by in the Y Trichant – The 300m
Hills of Wales is Llan Ucha Nantgwared
and this was derived from the Tithe
map.
The full details for the hill are:
Group: Mynydd Epynt
Name: Llan Ucha Nantgwared
Previously Listed Name: Twyn y Wern
OS 1:50,000 map: 160
Summit Height: 380.7m (LIDAR)
Summit Grid Reference: SN 87891 31661 & SN 87886 31671 (LIDAR)
Bwlch Height: 354.9m (LIDAR)
Bwlch Grid Reference: SN 88002 32543 (LIDAR)
Drop: 25.8m (LIDAR)
Myrddyn Phillips (May 2024)
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