Cefn yr Ystrad

About Cefn yr Ystrad

Cefn yr Ystrad is an outlier of the Central Beacons, set apart from the main group and rising east of Pontsticill Reservoir. It takes the form of a broad ridge running north-east to south-west, reaching 619 m.

The summit area is a wide sweep of moorland, with a trig point at the highest point. It ranks among the southernmost peaks in the national park, and its list credentials include Hewitt, Nuttall, Marilyn, HuMP and Simm.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Cefn yr Ystrad (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 51.815, -3.326. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Record revised

10-Apr-21

Drop measured from

SO 0524 1723 · 440.1 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.

The Cefn yr Ystrad group

4 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Cefn yr Ystrad as the independent hill at its head.

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