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Moelwyn Mawr loses mountain status and is downgraded to a hill Snowdonia ridge downgraded from a mountain to a hill
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Wales has lost one of its mountains after Moelwyn Mawr was downgraded to the status of a hill for being millimetres too short. A Snowdonia peak has been downgraded to the status of a hill.
Surveyors ruled the Snowdonia peak is no longer a mountain as it falls short by 23mm (0.9 inches). Surveyors ruled a ridge to the north of Moelwyn Mawr was no longer a mountain.
They used the latest GPS technology to make the discovery, based on the criteria set out in the definitive guide The Mountains of England & Wales. A mountain has to have a 49ft (15m) height difference between the summit and the land that connects it to the next highest hill.
The downgrading of Moelwyn Mawr means Wales now has 189 mountains. Using GPS technology and based on the criteria set out in the definitive guide The Mountains of England and Wales, surveyors found this height difference was 23cm (9in) too short.
The guidelines said a peak needs to be 2,000ft (610m) high and have a 49ft (15m) height difference between the summit and the land that connects it to the next highest hill. The ridge was included in a listing of 2,000ft mountains of Wales by John and Anne Nuttall, but has now been removed.
G&J Surveys' team of John Barnard, Graham Jackson and Myrddyn Phillips carried out the task of measuring the top of the northern ridge of Moelwyn Mawr. When it was included in the Nuttall's list, they coined the name 'Moelwyn Mawr North Ridge Top' for it.
The team's discovery mirrors the plot of Hugh Grant's 1995 film The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, which depicts a proud Welsh community attempting to thwart two English cartographers determined to reclassify their local mountain as a hill. Guidelines state a peak needs to be 2,000ft (610m) high and have the 49ft (15m) height difference in order to be classified as a mountain.
G&J Surveys' team of John Barnard, Graham Jackson and Myrddyn Phillips carried out the task of measuring the top of the ridge.