Creigiau Gleision

About Creigiau Gleision

Creigiau Gleision lies near Capel Curig and is the easternmost of the high Carneddau, cut off from the rest of the group by Llyn Cowlyd. Pen Llithrig y Wrach faces it directly across the reservoir, while to the north-east the hill runs out into the broad ridge of Cefn Cyfarwydd.

The name is plural, and the mountain does in fact have three tops. The southernmost is the highest at 676 m; the Ordnance Survey map also marks the northerly one, about half a mile away, at 632 m. A middle top of intermediate height sits between them, cairnless and unmarked on the map.

Views run in all directions, north to the coast and along the Ogwen Valley and Dyffryn Mymbyr towards Snowdon.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Creigiau Gleision (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.

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Computed astronomically for 53.136, -3.901. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Record revised

03-Jun-24

Drop measured from

SH 7166 6095 · 414.4 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 Creigiau Gleision 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.

The Creigiau Gleision group

4 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Creigiau Gleision 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.

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