Understanding the Welsh Land-Mass
Our exploration of the Welsh landscape comes in many forms, with research in to upland place-names, investigations via hill walking including surveying summits and bylchau for height and position. All of this is documented, some via personal notes, others via online access and many via the medium of hill lists. It is the latter that requires a splitting of the land in to manageable units for ease of access and documentation.
This land splitting is done with the aid of topography, following rivers and streams to their source. This will be the bwlch between the listed hills. Knowing the height of the respective bwlch and summit gives the drop value, which many hill lists rely upon for their criteria/criterion.
Our investigations in to splitting land mass in to topographical units was published in January 2022, this concentrated on Wales and its topographical extension in to England, which we refer to as Cymru Fawr – Greater Wales.
In the interim a similar exercise has been conducted for England and by association also for Scotland. By including all of Britain and labelling this land area together and not separately by country has resulted in the re-labelling of the Regions and Sub-Regions for Wales as a country and Cymru Fawr – Greater Wales as a topographical land area. It has also resulted in the re-evaluation of our Groups and their ordering.
These revisions now appear in our January 2022 article.
All online lists affected by these revisions will be updated accordingly over time.
A similar article for our workings relating to England will be published on the 2nd August 2026.
Aled Williams and
Myrddyn Phillips (July 2026)
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