As this Daily Telegraph article indicates, a hill is officially a mountain if it measures at least 2000 feet. Moel Famau cannot therefore be classed as a mountain because at 1818 feet it falls short by 182 feet. So it’s a rather big hill then!
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[…] at the highest point in Flintshire at some 555 metres – or 1821 feet. In my earlier post about the height of Famau I detailed the figure as 1818 feet …I can’t recall where I got that figure from now, […]
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[…] previously mentioned, Moel Famau isn’t quite high enough to be classed as a mountain. But as site reader M A Cameron points out there’s a sort-of […]
It certainly feels like a mountain when you’re walking up it!
Hi Nick,
Yes, it does rather! The views and ‘yes, I did it’ feeling are worth the effort though.
John, Thorpe Cloud or Moel Famau?
Hi Nick
oh Famau any day! I’ve been mountain biking in the Peaks a few times and it was always choc-a-block of a weekend.
Not heard of Thorpe Cloud before …going to have a more detailed search after to read up about it.
Thanks for the link 🙂
I’ve left a reply – I’m c-john
John
When I began fell walking and rock climbing in the 1970s a mountain was defined as being above 1000ft. Who changed it to 2000ft? – another attempt at elitism no doubt!
Hello Geoff
I guess someone, somewhere decides on these rulings and the rest of us just get told 🙂
John
If all the people who like taking bits of rock from site’s like this—brought then to this ‘BIG HILL’ and left them there then the BIG HILL could end up being called a mountain.
🙂