More Welsh Two-thousands  (Rucksack Club Journal, 1954, Vol. xii, p. 276)

 

There was considerable excitement amongst the peak-baggers at the Plynlimon meet when two two-thousands were discovered, which are not in the lists. (Rucksack Club Journal 1940 and 1952.) These tops have single contour rings on the new Seventh Series Edition of the Ordnance Survey one-inch map but are not marked on the Popular Edition, on which the lists were based. For the new map all the contours have been redrawn and this has produced many changes.

There are eight new tops (listed below) with contour rings on the map; most of them are, of course, obvious enough on the ground without the assistance of maps. The new top near Bwlch Main, half a mile south of Snowdon summit, is a conspicuously sharp little peak (3050+) which should be included in the Welsh Three-thousands walk. Allt Lwyd had no contour ring on the Popular Edition but has two rings on the new map.

Many heights in Snowdonia, but none farther south, are increased by one foot. Mercifully Gallt yr Ogof remains 2499. Seventeen tops have lost their contour rings but it is not proposed to list them.

The new map is no more consistent than the old one, for several prominent peaks have no contour rings on it. Pen Helig, for instance, unmistakably a peak on the ground and with two contour rings on the old map, has none on the new.

It is, of course, convenient to use the map as a standard but the claims of many tops can really only be decided on the spot.

 

 

District

and

Group

 

 

Name

 

Height

in

 feet

Sheet

No.

7th

Series

Edition

 

Full Nat.

Grid

Ref.

 

Snowdon . .

 

Snowdon . .

 

Snowdon . .

 

Cader Idris . .

 

Plynlimon . .

 

Plymlimon . .

 

Brecon . .

 

Black Mtns . .

 

Point E. of Yr Wyddfa †

 

Point W. of Y Lliwedd *

 

Point S. of Yr Wyddfa

 

Point S.W. of Gau Graig

 

Plynlimon Fach, S.E. Top

 

Plynlimon Fach, N.W. Top

 

Allt Lw^yd

 

Twyn Tal-y-cefn

 

2650+

 

2450+

 

3050+

 

2250+

 

2150+

 

2150+

 

2100+

 

2303

 

 

 

107

 

107

 

107

 

116

 

127

 

127

 

141

 

141

 

SH/617541

(23)

SH/619538

(23)

SH/606537

(23)

SH/737136

(23)

SN/788875

(22)

SN/786876

(22)

SO/078189

(32)

SO/222324

(32)

 

        †  Top of Gribin Ridge.

        * Where Watkin Path joins ridge.

                                                                                                                        E. Moss