Cadair Bronwen

About Cadair Bronwen

Cadair Bronwen forms part of the Berwyn range in north-east Wales, with the higher Berwyn tops including Cadair Berwyn to the south, and Moel yr Henfaes and Moel Fferna to the north closing off that end of the range.

Its summit is the highest point in the unitary authority of Wrexham. A companion Nuttall top, Cadair Bronwen North-East Top at 700 m, was removed from the list in 2007 following re-survey.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Cadair Bronwen (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 52.901, -3.373. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

obvious summit/Trimble GeoXH 6000

Record revised

19-Oct-14

Drop measured from

SJ 0760 3408 · 710.1 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Cadair Bronwen is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Cadair Berwyn (832 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 710 m.

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