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cnicht Latitude and Longitude:

53°0′1.26″N 4°1′7.66″W / 53.0003500°N 4.0187944°W / 53.0003500; -4.0187944
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Cnicht
Cnicht from the south-west
Highest point
Elevation691 m (2,267 ft)
Prominence105 m (344 ft)
Listing HuMP, Hewitt, Nuttall
Naming
English translationknight
Language of name Welsh
PronunciationWelsh pronunciation: [ˈknɪχt]
Geography
Location Gwynedd, Wales
Parent range Moelwynion
OS grid SH645466
Topo map OS Landranger 115
Listed summits of Cnicht
Name Grid ref Height Status
Cnicht 689 m (2,260 ft) Nuttall

Cnicht is a mountain in Snowdonia which forms part of the Moelwynion mountain range. [1] [2] [3]

Features

Its appearance when viewed from the south-west, i.e., from the direction of Porthmadog, has earned it the sobriquet the " Matterhorn of Wales", albeit being 3,789 metres lower. In reality, Cnicht is a long ridge and, at 691 m, is the fifth-highest peak in the Moelwynion mountain range. It can be easily ascended from Croesor, the village at its foot, or, with more difficulty, from Nant Gwynant to the northwest.

Although regarded by some as a mountain in its own right, Cnicht does not have the required 150m of topographic prominence to be classed as a Marilyn.

Toponymy

The mountain's name is thought to derive from the English surname Knight, the name of a family who were formerly merchants in Caernarfon. When borrowed into Welsh, the consonants represented by ⟨K⟩ and ⟨gh⟩ were still[ when?] pronounced in English, and these are retained in the Welsh name Cnicht as ⟨C⟩ (/k/) and ⟨ch⟩ (/χ/). [4]

In fiction

It appears as the "Saeth" in Patrick O'Brian's 1952 novel Three Bear Witness (published as Testimonies in the USA), which is set in a fictionalised version of Cwm Croesor. [5] O'Brian and his wife lived in the valley between 1946 and 1949.

References

  1. ^ Marsh, Terry. The Summits of Snowdonia (London: Robert Hale, 1984)
  2. ^ Marsh, Terry. The Mountains of Wales (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985)
  3. ^ Nuttall, John & Anne (1999). The Mountains of England & Wales - Volume 1: Wales (2nd edition ed.). Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone. ISBN  1-85284-304-7.
  4. ^ Owen, Hywel Wyn and Richard Morgan, Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (Llandysul: Gomer, 2007), p. 91.
  5. ^ Tolstoy, Nikolai (2005). Patrick O'Brian: The making of the novelist. London: Arrow. pp. 337–339. ISBN  0-09-941584-4.

External links

53°0′1.26″N 4°1′7.66″W / 53.0003500°N 4.0187944°W / 53.0003500; -4.0187944



cnicht Latitude and Longitude:

53°0′1.26″N 4°1′7.66″W / 53.0003500°N 4.0187944°W / 53.0003500; -4.0187944
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cnicht
Cnicht from the south-west
Highest point
Elevation691 m (2,267 ft)
Prominence105 m (344 ft)
Listing HuMP, Hewitt, Nuttall
Naming
English translationknight
Language of name Welsh
PronunciationWelsh pronunciation: [ˈknɪχt]
Geography
Location Gwynedd, Wales
Parent range Moelwynion
OS grid SH645466
Topo map OS Landranger 115
Listed summits of Cnicht
Name Grid ref Height Status
Cnicht 689 m (2,260 ft) Nuttall

Cnicht is a mountain in Snowdonia which forms part of the Moelwynion mountain range. [1] [2] [3]

Features

Its appearance when viewed from the south-west, i.e., from the direction of Porthmadog, has earned it the sobriquet the " Matterhorn of Wales", albeit being 3,789 metres lower. In reality, Cnicht is a long ridge and, at 691 m, is the fifth-highest peak in the Moelwynion mountain range. It can be easily ascended from Croesor, the village at its foot, or, with more difficulty, from Nant Gwynant to the northwest.

Although regarded by some as a mountain in its own right, Cnicht does not have the required 150m of topographic prominence to be classed as a Marilyn.

Toponymy

The mountain's name is thought to derive from the English surname Knight, the name of a family who were formerly merchants in Caernarfon. When borrowed into Welsh, the consonants represented by ⟨K⟩ and ⟨gh⟩ were still[ when?] pronounced in English, and these are retained in the Welsh name Cnicht as ⟨C⟩ (/k/) and ⟨ch⟩ (/χ/). [4]

In fiction

It appears as the "Saeth" in Patrick O'Brian's 1952 novel Three Bear Witness (published as Testimonies in the USA), which is set in a fictionalised version of Cwm Croesor. [5] O'Brian and his wife lived in the valley between 1946 and 1949.

References

  1. ^ Marsh, Terry. The Summits of Snowdonia (London: Robert Hale, 1984)
  2. ^ Marsh, Terry. The Mountains of Wales (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985)
  3. ^ Nuttall, John & Anne (1999). The Mountains of England & Wales - Volume 1: Wales (2nd edition ed.). Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone. ISBN  1-85284-304-7.
  4. ^ Owen, Hywel Wyn and Richard Morgan, Dictionary of the Place-Names of Wales (Llandysul: Gomer, 2007), p. 91.
  5. ^ Tolstoy, Nikolai (2005). Patrick O'Brian: The making of the novelist. London: Arrow. pp. 337–339. ISBN  0-09-941584-4.

External links

53°0′1.26″N 4°1′7.66″W / 53.0003500°N 4.0187944°W / 53.0003500; -4.0187944



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