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Black Mountain South Top

Black Mountain South Top is a 637.4m subsidiary peak of the Black Mountain just North of it and is classed as an hill. It is a fairly gentle…

Black Mountain

Black Mountain is a 703m mountain in the Black Mountains range. It is just below Hay Bluff and the summit is marked by a small pile of rocks….

Hay Bluff

Hay Bluff is a 677m hill in the Black Mountains range – and is just North of the 703m high Black Mountain itself. The hill is accessible from…

Twmpa [Lord Hereford’s Knob]

Twmpa, or Lord Herefords Knob, is a 690m Mountain in the Black Mountains range. It forms part of quite a dramatic wedge that includes Rhos Dirion and Hay…

Rhos Dirion

Rhos Dirion is a 713m mountain in the Black Mountains range. It tops a long ridgeway and has great views North as it steeply drops to open and…

Pen-y-Garn Fawr

Pen-y-Garn Fawr is a 616m hill in Monmouthshire that does not have the prominence to be classed as an official mountain, despite being high enough. It is part…

Crug Mawr

Crug Mawr is a 550m hill in the Black Mountains range above Crickhowell. It is the final summit on the above route, before you descend all the way…

Pen y Gadair Fawr

Mountain rank by height: 45 out of 188Height: 2,625ft | 800mRegion: Black MountainsGrid ref: SO 22946 28763 The second highest peak on this Black Mountains loop, but easily…

Mynydd Llysiau

Mountain rank by height: 125 out of 188Height: 2,175ft | 663mRegion: Black MountainsGrid ref: SO207279 This is the fourth mountain on the above loop and is marked by…