White Park (SN 158 091)
There has been a Significant Name Change to a hill
that is now listed in the 100m Twmpau, with
the summit height, drop and status of the hill being confirmed by LIDAR
analysis conducted by Myrddyn Phillips.
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 with 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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| LIDAR image of White Park |
The hill is adjoined to the
Brandy Hill group of hills, which are situated in
the south-western part of Mid and West Wales (Region B, Sub-Region B4), and is
positioned between the coast to its south and the A 47 road to its north, and
has the small community of Ludchurch to its north-west.
The hill appeared in the accompanying sub list to
the 100m P30 list on Geoff Crowder’s v-g.me website under the name of Craig-y-borion, with an accompanying
note stating; Name from buildings 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, just use the name of
a farm situated close to the summit 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local people or by examining historical documents, through this form of
research an appropriate name for the hill can usually be found.
Craig-y-borion
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137m
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158
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36
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Trig pillar. Name
from buildings to the North-West.
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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 321 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 White Park in the apportionments, with the details on the Tithe map appearing in the county named as Pembroke and in
the parish of Amroth.
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| Extract from the apportionments |
Therefore, the name this hill is now listed by in
the 100m Twmpau is White Park, and
this name was derived from the Tithe map.
The full details for the hill are:
Group: Brandy Hill
Name: White Park
Previously Listed Name:
Craig-y-borion
Summit Height: 138.1m
(LIDAR)
OS 1:50,000 map: 158
Summit Grid Reference:
SN 15867 09111 (LIDAR)
Drop: 31.0m (LIDAR)
Myrddyn Phillips (September 2018)
