NEWS
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17th Jan 2021
Little Calva and Hobcarton End deleted
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17th Jan 2021
Black Mountain South Top deleted
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21st Oct 2018
Mountain Man
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21st Oct 2018
The mountain that moved
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6th Aug 2018
Welsh Mountain record
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6th Aug 2018
New mountain joins the elite
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3rd Feb 2017
Award for Nuttalls.com
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28th Sep 2016
Fastest completion ever!
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31 May 2017
Alas poor Carnedd y Ddelw
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21st Nov 2016
Exploring Warcop
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12th Nov 2016
Craig Gwaun Taf joins the elite
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12th Nov 2016
Farewell Bram Rigg Top
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7th Oct 2016
Mountains could be downgraded to hills
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7th Sep 2016
Calf Top - a new mountain
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5th Aug 2015
Moelwyn Mawr North Ridge Top deleted
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29th Apr 2015
Stickle Tarn update
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29th Apr 2015
Tarn bagging extreme!
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12th Apr 2015
Blencathra Sale update
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1st Apr 2015
Pillar Rock guided ascent
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12th Feb 2015
Stickle Tarn for sale!
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7th Jan 2015
Cheshire and Staffordshire Hills
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22nd Oct 2014
Lots more walks
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13th Sep 2014
Helvellyn Shelter
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13th Sep 2014
New design for nuttalls.com
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15th Aug 2014
Misguided Snowdon safety
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11th May 2014
Blencathra up for sale
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20th Apr 2014
Fixing Helvellyn
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31 Mar 2014
OS NOT stopping paper maps!
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20th Feb 2014
Favourite mountain?
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22nd Oct 2013
Not a Wainwright
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10th Oct 2013
Colour maps now with all our Walks
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27th Sep 2013
Peak Park to keep Stanage
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8th May 2013
End or a new beginning?
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3rd Apr 2013
New mountain!
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27th Mar 2013
Mountain Maps published
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13th Jan 2013
Honister Zip wire rejected
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16th Apr 2012
Access to Bink Moss
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7th Mar 2012
Wether Hill has moved!
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7th Mar 2012
Blaenau Ffestiniog now on the map
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20th Feb 2012
New books for Old!
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10th Feb 2012
Myrddyn video reaches 1000 hits
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6th Jan 2012
Wales Coast Path to open in 2012
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3rd Dec 2011
Monsal Dale Tunnel closures
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28th Nov 2011
Roaches Wind turbine plans rejected
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28th Nov 2011
Roaches to be taken over by Wildlife Trust
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7th Sep 2011
Zipwire on Fleetwith Pike rejected
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28th Jun 2011 Two
hundredth completer
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5th Jun 2011 Garburn
Pass now closed to motor traffic
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1st Jun 2011 First among Dogs!
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1st Jun 2011 eBooks available
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13th Apr 2011 Update
on Fleetwith Pike Zip Wire
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25th Jan 2011 Walna
Scar Road saved again
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20th Nov 2010 New
Message Board
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23rd Sep 2010 Glyder
Fawr confirmed as 1000m
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14thSep 2010 Calf
Top - almost a mountain
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9th Sep 2010 New
Super Mountain in Wales?
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3rd Sep 2010 John
& Anne celebrate 3rd Round
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20th Aug 2010 Footpath
restoration on Crag Hill
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6th Aug 2010 Cushat
Law to Windy Gyle revised route
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29th Jul 2010 The
heighting of Tryfan
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30th Oct 2009
John & Anne 3rd round of Wales
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12th Aug 2009 Youngest climber of a 2000er?
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10th Aug 2009 Kinder survey
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22nd Jun 2009 Cwm Mynach appeal
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7th Jun 2009 New edition of Wales
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23rd Mar 2009 Branstree North East Top cairn
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23rd Mar 2009 Repairing Striding Edge
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23rd Mar 2009 New path to Cold Fell summit
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22nd Oct 2008 Edition 3 of England available
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22nd Sep 2008 Access to Mynydd Graig Goch
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19th Sep 2008 New mountain in Wales (official!)
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14th Aug 2008 New Welsh mountain?
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14th Aug 2008 Welsh mountains on Google Earth
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2nd Sep 2007 A sad demise is reported
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2nd Sep 2007 New Welsh Summits
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15th Apr 2007 Summit camp on Birks Fell
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5th Oct 2006 Birks Fell - OFFICIALLY a New Mountain
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4th Oct 2006 Birks Fell - a new top
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1st Sep 2006 Danger - Manod Mawr North Top
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1st Sep 2006 Peak District Parking
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30th Aug 2006 Oldest and highest
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30th Aug 2006 Edale's Moorland Visitor Centre to open on Sep 14th
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20th Jul 2006 OS consults on Welsh Language Scheme
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20th Jul 2006 Putting the stones back on Helvellyn
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17th May 2006 Bluebell survey
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17th Apr 2006 2nd Round of the 2000ers
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26th Apr 2006 Lake District Green Road changes
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8th Jul 2005 First continuous walk over all the English summits
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27th Apr 2005 Peak District car park closed
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25th Mar 2004 Pen yr Ole Wen renamed
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27th Oct 2003 Mountains of England and Wales (Vol 2) Errata
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13th Jul 2003 Mountain dog, but couldn't stand the heat
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21st Jun 2003 John and Anne walk round the world
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26 Apr 2003 Ordnance Survey Map Error
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22 Mar 2003 Myrddyn completes Welsh summits in every month
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3 Oct 2002 Separate lists added for England and Wales
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15Sep 2002 Myrddyn's 15th Round of the Welsh mountains
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1st Jul 2002 Rogan's Seat summit quarried away?
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Feb 2001 Moel Hebog
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Parking for the ascent of Moel Hebog, as described in Volume 1, is no longer
permitted at the Beddgelert Forest campsite. A notice at the entrance
directs you 400m up the road, but although we squeezed onto a forest road
verge (a lot more than 400m away) we couldn't find any other indication
anywhere of a car park. It may well be better now to start from Beddgelert.
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Jul 2000 Iron Crag
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Nigel and Veronica White write with an update on Iron Crag. The wall
running north from Caw Fell has been rebuilt from the col and is now higher
than normal and topped with a barbed wire fence ("quite unlike any
other wall I have seen in Lakeland"). Thus to reach the summit cairn of
Iron Crag it is necessary to continue along the west side of the wall until
a small gate is reached where the bridleway crosses (although this appears
to be further north than indicated on the OS Map). There is a cairn to the
east of the gate, which is obviously lower than the summit. To reach the
summit, if following walk 3.4, a double out and back each side of the wall
is required.
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Jun 2000 Great Dun Fell
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Ross Lockley writes with some notes on access to Great Dun Fell. There are 2
signs saying "private road - no unauthorised vehicles beyond this
point" on the radar service road north of Knock village. Access is
discouraged north of the quarry entrance at 685288. The locked gate has been
moved from the entrance to the Silverband Mine track. It is now located
where the Pennine Way leaves the road towards Dunfell Hush at 717316. There
is no access through the grounds of the radar station - walkers are diverted
round the northern perimeter of the station fence.
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May 2000 Flinty Fell / Nenthead
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The mine ruins in Nenthead have been opened as a heritage site. You can
still get through the site on footpaths, but there is a lot of work going on
to preserve the industrial archaeology.
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May 2000 Lakeland Two Thousanders
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Tom Bowker has written an interesting article in the April issue of the
magazine Cumbria about completing all the Lakeland Two Thousanders.
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Apr 2000 New edition of Wales now available
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There seem to be rumours that we keep adding yet another Welsh top just to
give everyone something to do. Not so! All new tops proposed for inclusion
have been visited and surveyed by us, the revision of our original list is
now complete and the second edition of Wales is due shortly.
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Jan 2000 Lake District CD</li>
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Computer Shopper magazine (January issue) has a sample of our CD "The
Lake District" and an article on its development.
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Nov 1999 New edition of Wales
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We have just received the proofs for the new edition of Volume 1 Wales. It
is to be published in January. All new tops are included as well as major
changes such as missing trig points.
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Oct 1999 Waun Garnedd-y-Filiast
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After checking Waun Garnedd-y-Filiast again we agree with Myrddyn Phillips,
Dewi Jones and Harold that it should be included. This brings the new total
of Welsh tops to seven.
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Sep 1999 Napes Needle
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Rob Woodall writes to say he has climbed Napes Needle and, by a process of
trigonometry using a rope, concludes it rises by only 44 ft.Sep 1999
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Sep 1999 Access page added to website
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New page "Access" added to site giving details of the Tir Cymen
scheme, which has improved access on the Arans and elsewhere.
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Sep 1999 New top
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Another new top has been verified, bringing the total new tops to six.
Several more proposed new tops have also been surveyed and ruled out, but
two more remain to be visited. This flurry of activity is because Cicerone
Press has agreed to a revised version of Volume 2 of The Mountains of
England and Wales.
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Sep 1999 New top in Wales
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A fifth new top in Wales and another has moved! (See Notes page)
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Aug 1999 Two Thousanders wall chart
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In case anybody has missed it there is a wall chart of all the two
thousanders in England and Wales published by Harveys based on our books.
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Jul 1999 Measuring
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Alun-Peter Fisher e-mails that due to rounding errors 15m rise tops
indicated by OS maps mean that the true rise could be anywhere between 14m
& 16m. Referring to Myrddyn's note below he asks "How on earth can
they be so sure to the nearest 5mm?! standing on a peaty summit might
depress it by that amount or more! You're likely to have a summit that
misses out by an inch or two wherever that limit is set".
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Jul 1999 Imperial or metric?
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Ed Humphreys, a friend of Myrddyn who finished Wales a year ago, suggests
there should actually be two lists, an Imperial and a Metric, so Waun
Garnedd-y-filiast goes IN the Metric list but OUT of the Imperial. The
Metric List, he says, should be the modern working list, but if you have
completed it you will also have completed the earlier Imperial List.
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Jul 1999 15m or 50ft?
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Myrddyn Phillips, Dewi Jones and friend Harold plus theodolite have surveyed
Waun Garnedd-y-filiast in the Arenigs (GR 875453). The result - after 3
hours hard work - was 15.1295m or 49ft 7.5in. In or out? That is the
question. After all there are several tops already in the list by virtue of
the OS having allotted them 15m of rise, so how many of these have under
50ft?
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Jun 1999 Ten rounds
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Myrddyn Phillips writes to say that when he has climbed Llwytmor he will
have completed TEN rounds of the Welsh tops (and this includes all the new
tops). Will this record ever be equalled?
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Jun 1999 New owner of Cicerone Press
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Cicerone Press now has a new owner, Jonathon Williams. Perhaps this presents
an opportunity for a new edition of the Welsh Mountains including the four
new tops.
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Jun 1999 Fiends Fell
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Chris Crocker reports that when climbing Fiends Fell a farmer told him there
were a lot of break-ins to cars parked on the A686 and suggested leaving the
car at the Hartside Cross café.
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Jun 1999 Burnhope Seat
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Chris Crocker thinks that the trig point and spot height are not at the
highest point. He has now completed the English Mountains, finishing with
the Old West Route on Pillar Rock.
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Jun 1999 Arans Access
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Chris Crocker met a Snowdonia Park Ranger on 2/8/1998 who said there was now
unrestricted access on the south and east sides. Eight out of the ten local
farms had signed a 10 year access concordat.
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May 1999 Napes Needle
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Rob Woodall suggests Napes Needle has between 40 and 50ft of reascent and is
probably over 2000ft.
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Apr 1999 Pumlumon Cwmbiga
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Alun-Peter Fisher writes that the recent Explorer map shows a 620m spot
height for Pumlumon Cwmbiga. Myrddyn Phillips also thinks this may be a new
top.
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Apr 1999 Black Hill in the Black Mountains
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Alun-Peter Fisher suggests it appears to rise by more than the amount shown
on the OS map.
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Mar 1999 Chwarel y Fan
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Kevan Hubbard tells us that the small forest near the summit has been
felled.
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Jan 1999 Y Garn, Rhinogs
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Andrew Currie reports that it is now difficult to cross the wall at the top
of the National Trust land. Alternative crossing place is at 710231, a short
distance after crossing Nant Las.
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Jan 1999 Tarren Hendre
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Andrew Currie reports that the "wide gap in the trees" is no
longer evident. The path is now on the far edge of the evergreens which have
filled the gap.
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Dec 1998 Mickle Fell
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Another report (from Kevan Hubbard) that permission to visit the area of
Mickle Fell, Little Fell and Murton Fell was refused.
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Nov 1998 Completer
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Deborah Seed wrote to say she completed the 2000ers on her 40th birthday, a
couple of years ago and celebrated with a cake made by her sister which was
decorated with 251 flags each bearing the name of a mountain.
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Sep 1998 What's on top?
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Myrddyn Phillips sent a fully comprehensive list of "what now adorns
the tops of the Welsh 2000ft mountains". It really deserves a page all
to itself.
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Aug 1998 More possible tops?
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Dewi Jones is compiling a list of all Welsh 2000ers with 10m of reascent. So
far 288 have come to light and this does not include the 181 originals, but
does include the four new tops.
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May 1998 Calf Top
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Ann Bowker has heard a rumour that someone has found a hump on Calf Top
(1999ft) which is higher than the trig point!
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May 1998 Seven rounds!
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Myrddyn Phillips of Welshpool completed his SEVENTH round of all the Welsh
tops, celebrating with champagne and strawberries on his new-found top of
Foel Meirch. He completed the English tops in Aug 1995, finishing with
Pillar Rock. (He's only done 5 Munros!)
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Apr 1998 New top
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Moelwyn Mawr North Ridge Top, in the Moelwyns is the latest addition, found
by Myrddyn Phillips. This rises by just 50ft and makes a new total of 185
Welsh tops.
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Feb 1998 Castell y Gwynt
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A letter in Trail Walker spurred us to re-surveying Castell y Gwynt.
Delicate measurement still leaves it with only 49ft of re-ascent.
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Oct 1997 Error
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Alun-Peter Fisher wrote to point out the erroneous attribution of Carnedd y
Filiast to the Carneddau (It's really in the Glyders). He also queried
Castell y Gwynt, Pumlumon Cwmbiga, Gwaun Cerrig Llwydion and insists Pen y
Gadair Fawr looks higher than Waun Fach.
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Sep 1997 New top in Wales?
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Foel Meirch, in the Carneddau, was proposed by Myrddyn Phillips of
Welshpool. It has now been surveyed by us and rises by 53ft so has been
added to the list.
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Sep 1997 Craiglwyn
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Craiglwyn in the Carneddau was proposed by Dewi Jones, and by several other
people. It was omitted originally as the OS map showed insufficient height
difference. However having surveyed it ourselves in Oct we agree that it
does indeed rise by 68ft and has therefore been added to the list.
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May 1997 What is a mountain?
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John Perry, from Prestatyn, wrote to Rambling Today commenting that the
Concise Oxford Dictionary defined a mountain as a large natural elevation,
especially one over a thousand feet high.
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Feb 1997 Windy Gyle
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The start and finish point Windy Gyle from Kidland Forest is no longer
accessible to vehicles. Robin Griffin of Northampton suggested starting at
Barrowburn. (Sadly Robin, the son of Harry Griffin, died in 1998).
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Sep 1996 Trum y Gwrgedd Dewi
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Jones of Porthmadog reckons Trum y Gwragedd is the correct spelling of this
top, and means Ridge of the Wives. Must be an OS error.
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Aug 1996 Completers
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Wales completed by Geoff and Vivien Crowder of Macclesfield. They had 175 of
the 181 summits to themselves (including Snowdon!). The Crowders reported
that Trail magazine states Castell y Gwynt drops 50ft on every side.
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Jun 1996 Craig Rhiew-erch
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Professor Tim Jones, of Liverpool, wrote to say he thinks Craig Rhiew-erch
is higher that Maesglase (We have not yet been to check this).
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Jun 1996 Cnicht North Top
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Cnicht North Top was proposed by Dewi Jones of Porthmadog when we met him
while backpacking on the Brecon Beacons. We subsequently surveyed the top
which proved to rise by just over 60ft from the col.
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Jun 1996 All the Welsh 2000ers in one walk
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Ann Bowker wrote to say she had completed a solo continuous walk over all
the Welsh 2000ers.
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May 1996 Burnhope Seat
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Chris Crocker, from Frodsham, wrote to say the height of Burnhope Seat is
given as 747m on the latest Landranger map (The height 746m in the book is
from the 1:10,000 maps which has the latest survey data for spot heights).
He also queried Pen on the Scafells, which we surveyed the following July
and measured as 10m of ascent.
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Oct 1995 England completion
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England completed by Geoff and Vivien Crowder of Macclesfield with an ascent
of Pillar Rock. They also pointed out that the Imperial height of Arenig
Fawr South Ridge Top should be 2336ft, and Red Screes 2546ft.
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Jun 1995 Great Knoutberry Hill
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Clive Wright of Congleton writes to say Great Knoutberry Hill has a new
waymarked ascent from the bridleway, beside a new fence, but the descent
remains the same.
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Oct 1994 England completion
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Jim Beattie, from Brampton, wrote to say he had completed all the English
tops, bar Pillar Rock.
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Jul 1993 Mickle Fell
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Jim Beattie of Brampton writes that there is now a proceedure for visiting
the summit of Mickle Fell, but there is still no public access to the Warcop
Training Area.
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Apr 1993 Foel Gron
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Derek Buckle of Montford Bridge writes to say that he was stopped by a
pleasant farmer who told him that the ascent of Foel Gron must be via Foel
Goch to remain on the Access Land.
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Aug 1992 Foel Cwm Sian Llwyd
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David Truslove of Winchester reports that the ruined cottage at the start of
the path to Foel Cwm Sian Llwyd is no more.
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Jul 1992 Cross Fell Access
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D B Fieldhouse of Grange Over Sands was asked not to park on the private
road to Great Dun Fell, but at the end of the public road, thus adding 5
miles to the walk. When we wrote the book we were told there was no local
objection to parking there.
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Apr 1990 Garreg Lwyd
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Geraint Owen of Swansea wrote to point out that the summit of Garreg Lwyd is
quartzite, not limestone. We hope to get this put right in future editions.