Cnicht
| Cnicht | |
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| File:Cnicht from west.jpg
Cnicht from the south-west
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| Listing | HuMP, Hewitt, Nuttall |
| Naming | |
| Translation | knight (Old English) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈknɪxt/ |
| Geography | |
| Location | Gwynedd, Wales |
| Parent range | Moelwynion |
| OS grid | SH645466 |
| Topo map | OS Landranger 115 |
| Listed summits of Cnicht | ||||
| Name | Grid ref | Height | Status | |
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| Cnicht | 689 m (2,260 ft) | Nuttall | ||
Cnicht is a mountain in Snowdonia which forms part of the Moelwynion mountain range.[1][2][3]
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 689 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 north-west.
Although rightly regarded by most people as a mountain in its own right, there are compilers of lists who consider that it does not in fact have enough prominence to separate it from its parent Allt-fawr in spite of over 110m of re-ascent and a distance of more than 4 km. Hence it is not regarded as a Marilyn.
The mountain gets its name from the old English word 'knight', the silent 'k' being pronounced at that time. It is said that the shape of the mountain bears a similarity to a knight's helmet.
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.[4] O'Brian and his wife lived in the valley between 1946 and 1949.
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- ↑ Marsh, Terry. The Summits of Snowdonia (London: Robert Hale, 1984)
- ↑ Marsh, Terry. The Mountains of Wales (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985)
- ↑ Nuttall, John & Anne (1999). The Mountains of England & Wales - Volume 1: Wales (2nd edition ed.). Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone. ISBN 1-85284-304-7.
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