Cefn Croes

About Cefn Croes

Cefn Croes is a 573-metre mountain in the Cambrian Mountains of Ceredigion, west Wales, south of the A44 road between Aberystwyth and Llangurig. Nearby stands Y Glog (Draws Drum), a hill classed as a HuMP.

The mountain gives its name to the Cefn Croes Wind Farm built upon it: construction began in February 2004 and was completed in spring 2005, when its 39 turbines started producing electricity, with a maximum installed capacity of 58.5 megawatts. The operator's community development contributions are shared between the Pontarfynach and Blaenrheidol community councils.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Cefn Croes Wind Farm (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 52.405, -3.754. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is no feature. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Record revised

28-Mar-12

Drop measured from

SN806811 · 528 m

Classification history: Replaced as Hump by 3481 Y Glog in March 2012..

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

Cefn Croes is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Pen y Garn (611 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 528 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