Cefn Cyfarwydd

About Cefn Cyfarwydd

Cefn Cyfarwydd is a ridge in the county borough of Conwy in north Wales, rising above the village of Trefriw on the west side of the Conwy valley. It forms a dramatic dividing line between Cwm Cowlyd and the rugged Carneddau mountains on one side and the greener, lusher Conwy valley on the other.

In Welsh, cefn means 'ridge', while cyfarwydd can mean either 'familiar' or 'a story-teller, guide or expert' — so the name can be read as either 'familiar ridge' or 'story-teller's ridge'.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Cefn Cyfarwydd (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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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 53.150, -3.868. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is small heathery hump on broad heathery top. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit/Trimble GeoXH 6000

Record revised

15-Mar-19

Drop measured from

SH 7470 6275 · 471 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.

Reaching Cefn Cyfarwydd by train

3 National Rail stations sit within 8 km of the summit — close enough to make a car-free day of it. Distances are straight lines, not walking routes.

Each station page lists every hill in its reach, long-distance paths from the door and a live-times link — see all stations with hills in reach. Station positions from NaPTAN (OGL v3.0).

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 Cyfarwydd is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Creigiau Gleision (676 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 471 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