Ffridd Cerrig Cae Newydd
(SH 829 633)
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 detail on contemporary
Ordnance Survey maps.
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.
The hill is adjoined to the
Mynydd Hiraethog group of hills which are situated
in the north-eastern part of North Wales (Region A, Sub-Region A2), and it is
positioned with the A548 road to its north-west and the B5113 road to its east,
and has the town of Llanrwst towards the west south-west.
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| Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map |
The hill appeared in the original 300m Welsh P30 list published on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website under the partly invented and
transposed name of Pen Henffrith, with an accompanying
note stating; Name from buildings to the
West.
| Pen Henffrith | 302m | SH829634 | 116 | 17 | Name from buildings to the West. 303m on 1:50000 map |
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. 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.
As this hill comprises bounded land the Tithe
map was consulted. 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.
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| Extract from the Tithe map |
The enclosed land where the summit of this hill is
situated is given the number 102 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 Ffridd Cerrig Cae Newydd in the apportionments, with the details on the Tithe map appearing in the parish of Llanrwst and in the
county named as Denbigh.
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| Extract from the apportionments |
Therefore, the name this hill is
now listed by in the Y Trichant – The 300m
Hills of Wales is Ffridd Cerrig Cae
Newydd, and this was derived from the
Tithe map.
The full details for the
hill are:
Group: Mynydd Hiraethog
Name: Ffridd Cerrig Cae Newydd
Previously Listed
Name: Pen Henffrith
OS 1:50,000 map: 116
Summit Height: 302m (spot height)
Summit Grid
Reference: SH 82967 63328 (hand-held GPS
via DoBIH)
Bwlch Height: 272m (spot height)
Bwlch Grid
Reference: SH 83181 63238 (spot height)
Drop: 30m (spot height summit and bwlch)
Myrddyn Phillips (May
2020)
