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 Lake District has produced three new tops, small fry, but none so insignificant as Corbett’s Pancake, the Unnamed Dodd— although even this is beaten by the Craig Berwyn tops, of which it can only be said that they are not hollows. Has anyone succeeded in locating both these elusive tops ?

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.

Wales has proved a fruitful field with six new twenty-fives. They are:

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 England and 64 in Wales, bringing the total to 158.