Wales

Craig y Llyn

DeweyHistoric County TopCurrent County/UA TopMarilynHuMPSimm

4 classifications here — Current County/UA Top, Marilyn, HuMP and Simm — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

Craig y Llyn, 600 m, Neath Port Talbot
Craig y Llyn, 600 m, Neath Port Talbot. Photo by Nigel Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
600 m · 1,969 ft
Grid reference
SN 90688 03158
Coordinates
51.71642, -3.58377
County / area
Neath Port Talbot
County top
Highest point of Neath Port Talbot
OS Landranger
170
OS Explorer
166W
Summit feature
trig point
Key col
SN 9412 0642 (206.6 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 51.716, -3.584. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (600 m)…

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

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

ground 5m W at SN 90684 03156 and ground by forest edge 25m NW of at SN 90674 03177 are both of similar height.

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

Record revised
11-Jul-23
Drop measured from
SN 9412 0642 · 206.6 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 Craig y Llyn by train

2 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.

StationFrom summitSummit lies
Treherbert5.9 kmNW of the station
Ynyswen7.1 kmNW of the station

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).

Rated places to eat within 10 km of Craig y Llyn
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Zip WorldRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 52.4 km · NE
Rhigos RFCPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 52.8 km · NE
Rhigos Community Coffee MorningRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen3 out of 53.1 km · NE

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 Craig y Llyn group

8 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Craig y Llyn as the independent hill at its head.

Listed summits in the Craig y Llyn prominence group
SummitHeightDrop
Werfa568 m88 m
Twyn Crugyrafan559 m33 m
Mynydd Caerau555 m90 m
Mynydd Ton539 m92 m
Mynydd Blaengwynfi528 m38 m
Mynydd Tynewydd518 m32 m
Hirwaun Common515 m39 m
Mynydd Ynyscorrwg502 m41 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
Hirwaun Common515 m3.6 km
Mynydd Tynewydd518 m3.7 km
Mynydd Ynyscorrwg502 m5.5 km
Mynydd Blaengwynfi528 m5.8 km
Twyn Crugyrafan559 m7.8 km
Werfa568 m8.4 km