Aran Fawddwy

About Aran Fawddwy

Aran Fawddwy is the highest peak of the Aran range in southern Eryri and the county top of historic Merionethshire. It is the only Welsh summit outside northern Snowdonia to exceed 900 m, and nothing in the United Kingdom south of northern Snowdonia is higher.

Creiglyn Dyfi, a small lake on the eastern slopes, is the source of the River Dyfi. The ridge also carries the sister peak Aran Benllyn at 885 m, with Erw y Ddafad-ddu between the two. Dinas Mawddwy lies to the south, Llanymawddwy to the southeast, Rhydymain to the west and Llanuwchllyn to the north on the shore of Llyn Tegid; Bala and Dolgellau are the nearest larger towns.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Aran Fawddwy (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for Wales — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Wales ·check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 52.787, -3.688. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is trig point. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit/Leica RX1250

Record revised

03-Jun-24

Drop measured from

SH 8505 2680 · 232.8 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

The Aran Fawddwy group

8 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Aran Fawddwy as the independent hill at its head.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks