Month: June 2021Page 2 of 3

Graig Syfyrddin [Edmund’s Tump]

Graig Syfyrddin [Edmund’s Tump] is a 423m hill in Monmouthshire. As a fairly isolated hill it offers great views in every direction of open countryside. The walk is…

Ysgyryd Fach

Ysgyryd Fach is a 271m hill in Monmouthshire, just outside of Abergavenny. In English it is ‘Little Skirrid’, as it is smaller than the nearby Skirrid (Ysgyryd Fawr)….

Mynydd Aberdare

Mynydd Aberdare is a 457m hill above Aberdare and Merthyr Tydfil. It offers some of the best views of the Brecon Beacons I have found so far from…

Mynydd Gethin

Mynydd Gethin is a 491m hill above Abercanaid to the East and Cwmbach to the West. It is also home to Bike Park Wales, a huge operation that…

Twyn Brynbychan

Twyn Brynbychan is a 411m hill above Mountain Ash that offers great views in every direction, and one of the best short-ish ridgeway walks I have done. The…

Twr Pen-cyrn [Mynydd Llangatwg]

Twr Pen-cyrn [Mynydd Llangatwg] is a 529m hill above Llangattock. It is topped by two large cairns and a trig point and has fantastic views in every direction….

Buckland Hill

Buckland Hill is a 316m hill near Llangynidr that is part open fields and part heavily wooded. Sadly the trig point is in the heavily wooded area and…

Tor y Foel

You can drive up a small lane from Talybont on Usk that does a lot of the hard ascent for you, it also takes you to a parking…

Bryniau Gleision

I started this walk by summiting Pant y Creigiau, a 565m hill just South of the start of the Brecon Beacons Horseshoe walk – if you are doing…