Pen Rhiw Einon (SO 075 380)
There has been a Significant Height Revision 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 Pen Rhiw Einon (SO 075 380) |
The criteria for the list that this height revision 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 name the hill is now listed by is Pen Rhiw
Einon and this was derived from the Tithe map, and it 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 encircled by minor roads, with the
B4520 road farther to its west and the A470 road farther to its east, and has
the small community of Erwyd (Erwood) towards the north north-east.
When the original 300m height band of Welsh P30 hills were published on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website, this hill was included
in the main P30 list with a 379m summit height, based on the spot height that
appears on the contemporary Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger and 1:25,000
Explorer map.
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 35m of drop, based on the 379m summit
spot height and the 344m bwlch spot height, with the latter appearing on the
contemporary Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map.
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.
LIDAR summit image of Pen Rhiw Einon (SO 075 380) |
The summit height produced by LIDAR analysis is 376.4m
and is positioned at SO 07517 38090, and this comes within the parameters of
the Significant Height Revisions used within this page heading, these
parameters are:
The term Significant Height Revisions applies to
any listed hill whose interpolated height and Ordnance Survey or Harvey map
summit spot height has a 2m or more discrepancy when compared to the survey
result produced by the Trimble GeoXH 6000 or analysis of data produced via
LIDAR, also included are hills whose summit map data is missing an uppermost
ring contour when compared to the data produced by the Trimble or by LIDAR
analysis.
Therefore, the new listed summit height of this
hill is 376.4m and this was derived from LIDAR analysis, this is 2.6m lower than
the previously listed summit height of 379m, which was based on the spot height
that appears on the contemporary Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger and
1:25,000 Explorer map.
The full details for the hill are:
Group: Mynydd Epynt
Name: Pen Rhiw Einon
OS 1:50,000 map: 160
Summit Height (New Height): 376.4m (LIDAR)
Summit Grid Reference: SO 07517 38090 (LIDAR)
Bwlch Height: 345.6m (LIDAR)
Bwlch Grid Reference: SO 07458 37640 (LIDAR)
Drop: 30.8m (LIDAR)
Myrddyn Phillips (August
2024)
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