Carreg Cadno

About Carreg Cadno

Carreg Cadno — Welsh for 'rock of the fox' — is a 538-metre hill some five miles north-east of Abercraf in Powys, south Wales. It lies within the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park and the Fforest Fawr Geopark, and falls inside the Ogof Ffynnon Ddu National Nature Reserve, which the Countryside Council for Wales owns and manages.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Carreg Cadno (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 51.832, -3.635. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is outcrop. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

15-Aug-12

Drop measured from

SN884170 · 503 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Carreg Cadno is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Fan Gyhirych (726 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 503 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