Rucksack Club Journal, Vol.
VII, No. 3, 273-274 (1933)
SOME NEW TWENTY-FIVES
By E. Moss
The collection of twenty-fives
proceeds by leaps and bounds from the more enthusiastic devotees, and even the
most modest collectors can be said to be getting on apace. This activity has
led to the discovery of some new tops, all of which satisfy Corbett’s criterion
of a separate contour ring on the Popular Edition of the One Inch Ordnance Map
(see Corbett’s article, R.C.J. 1929).
The most noteworthy discovery
is:
Dufton Fell (4) .. .. 2,500+
which lies 4 miles NW. of Mickle Fell and 3 1/2 miles ESE. of Knock
Fell. It is remarkable that the recognition of a peak with a 200-ft. rise
should come so late, although it is placed obscurely on the map, being cut in
two by the adjacent side of the two Ordnance maps (Nos. 10 and 13) covering the
district.
The
The new tops are:
Pillar E. top (1) .. .. 2,500+
Bowfell centre top (1) .. 2,850+
Buckbarrow Crag (1) .. 2,550+
The first is a rocky top overlooking Hind Cove. The second lies between
Bowfell main top and Bowfell N. top, near the top of Cambridge Crag. The third
is on the ridge between Coniston Old Man and Brim Fell and is named on the
six-inch map.
Black Ladders W.
top (2) 3,200+
Foel Goch S. top (1) 2,600+
Arenig Fawr Far
South top (1) 2,600+
Aran Benllyn Far
North top (1) 2,750+
Drws Bach (1) .. 2,500+
Mynedd Pencoed SW.
top (1) 2,500+
There are two tops marked on
the Black Ladders; Corbett mentions only the 3,184 top with one contour ring.
The new one has two contour rings and is higher. Foel Goch S. top is a definite
grassy hump well seen from Tal-y-Braich. The omission of Arenig Fawr Far South
top is very strange, for it is a quite sharp and obvious peak very close to
Arenig Fawr. It may have been missed because the Snowdon Tourist Map gives
Arenig Fawr N. and S. tops, but just cuts off the new one. Aran Benllyn Far
North top is a worthy addition whose contour on the map is rather obscured by
the printing of the word Benllyn. Drws Bach is two-thirds of a mile due south
of Aran Mawddwy. Mynedd Pencoed SW. top is a grassy plateau.
There are now 94 twenty-fives
in