Mount Park (SN 072 185)
There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill that is listed in the 100m Twmpau and Y Trechol – The Dominant Hills of Wales, with the summit height, bwlch height and their locations, the drop, dominance and status of the hill derived from LIDAR analysis conducted by Myrddyn Phillips.
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| LIDAR image of Mount Park (SN 072 185) |
The criteria for the two listings that this name
change applies to are:
100m Twmpau
– Welsh hills at or above
100m and below 200m in height that have 30m minimum drop, with an accompanying sub list entitled the 100m
Sub-Twmpau, with the criteria for this sub category being all Welsh hills at or
above 100m and below 200m in height with 20m or more and below 30m of drop,
with the word Twmpau being an acronym standing for thirty welsh metre prominences and upward.
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| The 100m Twmpau by Myrddyn Phillips |
Y Trechol – The Dominant Hills of Wales – Welsh P30 hills whose
prominence equal or exceed half that of their absolute height. With the criteria for Lesser Dominant status
being those additional Welsh P30 hills whose prominence is between one third
and half that of their absolute height.
The list is authored by Myrddyn Phillips with the Introduction to the start of the Mapping Mountains publication of this list appearing on the 3rd
December 2015, and the list is now available in its entirety on Mapping Mountains in Google Doc format.
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| Y Trechol - The Dominant Hills of Wales by Myrddyn Phillips |
The hill is adjoined to the Mynydd Preseli group
of hills, which are situated in the
south-western part of South Wales (Region B, Sub-Region B1), and it is positioned encircled by minor roads, with
the A40 road farther to its south and the B4313 road farther to its east, and
has the town of Arberth (Narberth) towards the south-east.
The hill appeared in the
original Welsh 100m P30 list on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website, under the
transposed and invented name of Broadway Hill,
with an accompanying note stating; Name
from Hamlet to the North-West.
| Broadway Hill | 112m | SN072185 | 158 | 36 | Trig pillar. Name from Hamlet to the North-West. |
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 the name of a small community and add the word Hill to it. 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.
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| 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.
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| Extract from the Tithe map |
The enclosed land where the summit of this hill is
situated is given the number 26 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 Mount Park in
the apportionments, with the details on the Tithe map appearing
in the parish of Llanhuadain and in the county named as Pemroke.
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| Extract from the apportionments |
Therefore, the name this hill
is now listed by in the 100m Twmpau and Y Trechol – The Dominant Hills of Wales is
Mount Park, and
this was derived from the Tithe map.
The full details for the hill are:
Group: Mynydd Preseli
Name: Mount Park
Previously Listed Name:
Broadway Hill
OS 1:50,000 map: 158
Summit Height: 111.6m (LIDAR)
Summit Grid Reference: SN 07203 18543 (LIDAR)
Bwlch Height: 63.8m (LIDAR)
Bwlch Grid Reference: SN 04900 17196 (LIDAR)
Drop: 47.8m (LIDAR)
Dominance: 42.82% (LIDAR)
Myrddyn Phillips (May
2023)
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