Wales

Cripiau South Top

Height
524.6 m · 1,721 ft
Grid reference
SN 80205 82869
Coordinates
52.43061, -3.76345
County / area
Cardiganshire [Ceredigion]
OS Landranger
135 136
OS Explorer
213 214W
Summit feature
no feature: knoll
Key col
SN 8028 8263 (494 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 52.431, -3.763. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (525 m)…

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

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

West top is 1.83m lower.

The recorded summit point is no feature: knoll. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Leica NA730
Record revised
14-Apr-20
Drop measured from
SN 8028 8263 · 494 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 Cripiau South Top
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
The George Borrow HotelHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house5 out of 56.5 km · W
The Silver Mountain ExperienceRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen4 out of 57.6 km · W
Red Kite Cafe & GrillRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen2 out of 57.6 km · W

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

Cripiau South Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Pen y Garn (611 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 494 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
Llechwedd Hirgoed West Top539 m1.4 km
Llechwedd Hirgoed538.4 m1.8 km
Y Glog574 m2.1 km
Cefn Croes573 m3 km
Drybedd566 m3 km
Y Garn684 m3.5 km