[Talk-GB] A moutain range in Cornwall??

[Chris Smith]

I've always understood a proper mountain to be over 3000ft or 1000Metres -
maybe this comes from the Munro's which are Scottish and over 3000' .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munro

Wikipedia has it as 2000 ft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_mountains_and_hills_in_the_British_Isles

In North East Wales there are a lot of hills called mountains which are not
really very high at all - for example Flint Mountain ( 296ft), Hope
Mountain, Buckley Mountain, Ewloe Mountain etc. I suspect calling these
Mountains comes from an English translation of a  more general Welsh Name.

Not sure this helps, but best I can do!

Chris Smith



On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 11:34, Nick Whitelegg <nickw4426 at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I was a child I remember being told that a mountain was anything over
> around 300m / 1000ft. So by that definition Cornwall does indeed have
> mountains, but then again it would also imply that the Cotswolds includes
> mountains and Berkshire is within a few metres of doing so! ;-)
>
> I suppose it begs the question "what is a mountain?"
> Rather a subjective term but I guess something that rises around 500
> metres above the surrounding land and is rugged, rocky and potentially
> hazardous in the wrong conditions would fit the bill.
>
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 2:11 PM ael via Talk-GB <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 02:46:16PM +0000, ael via Talk-GB wrote:
>> > I just stumbled across a "mountain_range" in Cornwall! Really?
>> > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/11256891324#map=18/50.41667/-4.83306
>> >
>> > This looks like nonsense? Does someone have time to look into this?
>>
>> I left a short changeset comment, and the original mapper has deleted
>> the node.
>>
>> ael
>>
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