Wales

Carn Hyddgen · Carn Gwilym

Height
566 m · 1,857 ft
Grid reference
SN 79233 90831
Coordinates
52.50194, -3.78062
County / area
Powys
OS Landranger
135
OS Explorer
215W
Summit feature
southerly of two very large ancient cairns
Key col
SN803926 (514 m)

Access rights here

Conditional Right to roam: Right to roam only on mapped CRoW open access land.

Permission needed Wild camping: Permission needed everywhere.

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 52.502, -3.781. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is southerly of two very large ancient cairns. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
obvious summit
Record revised
10-Dec-12
Drop measured from
SN803926 · 514 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

2 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).

Rated places to eat within 10 km of Carn Hyddgen
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
The Star InnPub/bar/nightclub4 out of 57.7 km · NE
The Lodge at StaylittleHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house5 out of 59.8 km · E

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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Carn Hyddgen is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Pumlumon Fawr (752 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 514 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

PeakHeightDistance
Foel Uchaf565 m1.1 km
Banc Llechwedd-mawr560 m2 km
Clipyn Du582 m2.5 km
Foel Grafiau528.3 m2.9 km
Foel Fras528.7 m3.2 km
Pumlumon Fach664 m3.4 km