Wales · Bannau Brycheiniog National Park

Cefn y Cylchau

Height
556 m · 1,824 ft
Grid reference
SN 75738 19725
Coordinates
51.86219, -3.80600
County / area
Carmarthenshire [Sir Gaerfyrddin]
OS Landranger
160
OS Explorer
OL12W
Summit feature
small cairn
Key col
SN757190 (518 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 51.862, -3.806. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (556 m)…

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

Finding the summit

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

Survey method
Abney level
Record revised
10-Mar-07
Drop measured from
SN757190 · 518 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).

Rated places to eat within 10 km of Cefn y Cylchau
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
DERLWYN ARMSPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 56.2 km · SW
Rominos PizzaTakeaway/sandwich shop3 out of 56.7 km · SW
Tregyb ArmsPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 56.8 km · SW

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 y Cylchau is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Fan Brycheiniog - Twr y Fan Foel (803 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 518 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 Fraith602 m1.4 km
Garreg Las635 m2.1 km
Garreg Lwyd616 m2.5 km
Carn Pen-rhiw-ddu531.2 m3.4 km
Waun Lefrith676.1 m4.4 km
Bannau Sir Gaer - Picws Du749.1 m5.8 km