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

[Dave Dunford]

Definitions of "mountain" based on elevation seem to be apocryphal, as 
far as I can tell. I've had several debates on Wikipedia with people who 
claim that "the Ordnance Survey defines anything over 2000ft as a 
mountain",  and otherwise reputable sources such as the BBC and the 
Guardian repeat the same claim, but no-one can produce any official 
expression of this convention in any OS publication. "The Englishman Who 
Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain" notwithstanding, I think it's a 
myth.

Dave

On 13/02/2024 11:52, Chris Smith wrote:
> 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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