Myrddyn Phillips - Mapping Mountains: Pt. 141.4m (SN 416 592)

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Thursday, 2 February 2023

Mapping Mountains – Significant Name Changes – 100m Twmpau

Pt. 141.4m (SN 416 592)

There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill that is listed in the 100m Twmpau, with the summit height, bwlch height and their locations, the drop and status of the hill derived from detail on contemporary maps produced from Ordnance Survey data and LIDAR analysis conducted by Myrddyn Phillips.

LIDAR image of Pt. 141.4m (SN 416 592)

The criteria for the list 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.

The 100m Twmpau by Myrddyn Phillips

The hill is adjoined to the Mynydd Bach group of hills, which are situated in the western part of South Wales (Region B, Sub-Region B1), and it is positioned with the coast to its north, minor roads to its west and south-east, and the B4342 road to its south, and has the town of Ceinewydd (New Quay) towards the west.

The hill appeared in the original Welsh 100m P30 list on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website, under the transposed name of Penlanymor, with an accompanying note stating; Name from buildings to the North.

Penlanymor

141m

SN417593

146

198

Name from buildings to the North

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 what is now a caravan park and use it for that of the hill. 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.

Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map

However, on occasion even when research is conducted an appropriate name for the hill may not be found, and on such occasions the listing protocol is to use the point (Pt. 141.4m) notation, and for this hill this is such an example.

Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in the 100m Twmpau is Pt. 141.4m, and this is being used as the author has not found an appropriate name for the hill either through historic research and/or local enquiry.

The full details for the hill are:

Group: Mynydd Bach

Name: Pt. 141.4m

Previously Listed Name: Penlanymor

OS 1:50,000 map: 146

Summit Height: 141.35m (LIDAR)

Summit Grid Reference: SN 41655 59248 (LIDAR)

Bwlch Height: c 113m (interpolation)

Bwlch Grid Reference: SN 42778 58551 (interpolation)

Drop: c 28m (LIDAR summit and interpolated bwlch)

Myrddyn Phillips (February 2023)

Monday, 30 January 2023

Mapping Mountains – Summit Relocations – 100m Twmpau

Pt. 141.4m (SN 416 592)

There has been a Summit Relocation to a hill that is listed in the 100m Twmpau, with the summit height, bwlch height and their locations, the drop and status of the hill derived from detail on contemporary maps produced from Ordnance Survey data and LIDAR analysis conducted by Myrddyn Phillips.

LIDAR image of Pt. 141.4m (SNN 416 592)

The criteria for the list that this summit relocation 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.

The 100m Twmpau by Myrddyn Phillips

The hill is being listed by the point (Pt. 141.4m) notation as an appropriate name for it either through local enquiry and/or historic research has not been found by the author, and it is adjoined to the Mynydd Bach group of hills, which are situated in the western part of South Wales (Region B, Sub-Region B1), and it is positioned with the coast to its north, minor roads to its west and south-east, and the B4342 road to its south, and has the town of Ceinewydd (New Quay) towards the west.

When the original Welsh 100m P30 list was published on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website, this hill was listed with a 141m summit height, based on the spot height that appears on the Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger and 1:25,000 Explorer map and which is positioned at SN 41695 59277.

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 analysis gives the highest ground on this hill as 141.5m positioned at SN 41667 59283. However, this is a part of a raised field boundary and protocols dictate that as this is deemed a relatively recent man-made construct such ground is discounted from the height of a hill.

LIDAR summit image of Pt. 141.4m (SN 416 592)

The height produced by LIDAR analysis to the natural summit of this hill is 141.35m and is positioned at SN 41655 59248, and this comes within the parameters of the Summit Relocations used within this page heading, these parameters are:

The term Summit Relocations applies to when the high point of the hill is positioned in a different field, to a different feature such as a conifer plantation, within a different map contour, a different point where a number of potential summit positions are within close proximity, when natural ground or the natural and intact summit is confirmed compared to a higher point such as a raised field boundary or covered reservoir that is considered a relatively recent man-made construct, or a relocation of approximately 100 metres or more in distance from either the position of a map spot height or from where the summit of the hill was previously thought to exist.

Therefore, the height produced by LIDAR analysis to the natural summit of this hill is 141.35m and is positioned at SN 41655 59248, this position is not given a spot height on the contemporary Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger and 1:25,000 Explorer map, and is approximately 40 metres westward from where the 141m spot height is positioned and 35 metres southward from where the high point of the raised field boundary is positioned.