Crumma Pasture (NZ 085 061)
There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill
that is listed in The Fours, with
this being announced when the 2nd edition of The Fours was published by Mapping Mountains Publications on the 24th
April 2018.
The criteria for the list that this name change
applies to are:
The Fours – English hills at or above 400m and below 500m in
height that have 30m minimum drop. Accompanying
the main list of The Fours are three
categories of sub hills, with this hill listed as a 390m Sub-Four. The criteria
for 390m Sub-Four status are all
English hills at or above 390m and below 400m in height that have 30m minimum drop.
The list is co-authored by Myrddyn Phillips and
Aled Williams, with the 1st edition of the list having been
published by Europeaklist in December 2013 and by Haroldstreet in January 2014,
with the 2nd edition of the list published by Mapping Mountains
Publications and by Haroldstreet on the 24th April 2018.
The hill is situated in the Northern Pennines and
is placed in Region 35, Section 35A with its Cardinal Hill being Great Shunner
Fell (SD 848 972). The hill is
positioned with the A 66 road to its north-east and the A 6108 road and the
town of Richmond towards its south-east.
When the listing that is now known as The Fours was originally compiled this
hill was not included as the sub category did not take in hills below 400m in
height, however when the list was uploaded to the RHB Yahoo group file database
the hill was listed as unnamed summit. Subsequently
the hill was listed as Weather Hill in the 1st edition of The Fours when the list was published by
Europeaklist in December 2013.
Hill list authors are prone to list a hill by the name that appears
nearest to its summit on contemporary Ordnance Survey maps, without much
consideration for its local or historical confirmation, or whether map
placement is appropriate, and in the case of this hill Ordnance Survey 1:25,000
Explorer maps position the name of Weather Hill adjacent to a 382m map heighted
top and to the north-west of the summit of this hill.
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| Extract from the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 Explorer map |
Since the original publication of this list on the
RHB Yahoo Group file database there have been a number of Ordnance Survey maps
made available online, some of these are historical such as the series of
Six-Inch maps on the National Library of Scotland website, whilst others are
current and digitally updated such as the Interactive Coverage Map hosted on
the Geograph website. Two of the historical
maps now available are the Ordnance Survey Draft Surveyors map which formed the
basis for the Ordnance Survey One-Inch ‘Old Series’ map, and it was the latter
of these maps as well as the Six-Inch map that position the name of Crumma
Pasture adjacent to this hill.
The One-Inch ‘Old Series’
was the first map that Ordnance Survey published, and they were based on the
preceding Draft Surveyors map. Their
publication culminated from the whole of Britain being surveyed between 1791
and 1874 and the detail gathered therein produced at a scale of one inch to the
mile and published in sheet format between 1805 and 1874. The One-Inch ‘Old Series’ maps for the whole
of England are now available online, they are also available in map format as
enlarged and re-projected versions to match the scale and dimensions of the
Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 Landranger series and are published by Cassini. This series of maps forms another important
part in the study of upland place-names and bridge the time frame leading to
the production of the Ordnance Survey base map of the Six-Inch series.
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| Extract from the Ordnance Survey One-Inch 'Old Series' map |
For many years The Ordnance
Survey Six-Inch map was the base map for information to be fed on to, the scale
was superseded in the 1950s by the 1:10,000 series of maps and was available as
sheets until the 1980s when they were digitised. One of the recurring themes of Ordnance
Survey maps is that some of the data are not consistent between the different
scales of maps available, this is particularly noticeable for numerical data
between the two publicly available scales of 1:50,000 Landranger and 1:25,000
Explorer maps. However, when studying
place-names it is also noticeable that name placement and sometimes composition
is not consistent between these lower scaled maps and their larger scaled and
older maps of the Six-Inch series. It is
also noticeable that some names appear on the Six-Inch map whilst they do not
appear on the smaller scaled maps.
Extensive research has shown that place-name data and numerical data on
the series of Six-Inch maps, and especially so for the former’s placement, are
more appropriate and accurate compared too much of the information on
contemporary maps.
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| Extract from the Ordnance Survey Six-Inch map published in 1857 |
Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in The Fours is Crumma Pasture and this was
derived from the Ordnance Survey One-Inch ‘Old Series’ map as well as the
Ordnance Survey Six-Inch map, with map placement for the name of Weather Hill
favouring land to the north-west of this hill’s summit.
The full details for the hill are:
Cardinal Hill: Great
Shunner Fell
Name: Crumma Pasture
Previously Listed Name:
Weather Hill
Summit Height: 392
OS 1:50,000 map: 92
Summit Grid Reference:
NZ 08593 06115
Drop: 33m
Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams (June 2018)
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