Fridd Uchaf (SH 993 500)
There has been a
Significant Name Change to a hill that is now 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 confirmed by LIDAR analysis
conducted by Myrddyn Phillips.
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| LIDAR image of Ffridd Uchaf (SH 993 500) |
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 B4501 road to its west and the B5105 road to its south, and
has the village of Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr towards the south.
The hill was not included in the Hills to be surveyed sub list that
accompanied the original Welsh 300m P30 list published on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website, as it was considered not to meet the criteria then used in this
sub category. It was later listed by the
point (Pt. 375m) notation when the P30 lists were re-assessed.
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| Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger map |
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 697 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 Uchaf in the apportionments, with the details on the Tithe map appearing in the parish of Glyn Myfyr and in the
counties named as Denbigh and Merioneth.
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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 Uchaf, and this was derived from the Tithe map.
The full details for the
hill are:
Group: Mynydd Hiraethog
Name: Ffridd Uchaf
Previously Listed
Name: Pt. 375m
OS 1:50,000 map: 116
Summit Height: 376.4m (LIDAR)
Summit Grid
Reference: SH 99378 50074 (LIDAR)
Bwlch Height: 350.5m (LIDAR)
Bwlch Grid
Reference: SH 99671 50547 (LIDAR)
Drop: 25.9m (LIDAR)
Myrddyn Phillips (July
2020)
