Wales · Bannau Brycheiniog National Park

Disgwylfa

Height
543.5 m · 1,783 ft
Grid reference
SN 81568 17901
Coordinates
51.84707, -3.72076
County / area
Powys
OS Landranger
160
OS Explorer
OL12W
Summit feature
rock outcrop
Key col
SN815172 (503 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 51.847, -3.721. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

this outcrop is in NW 540m ring contour; outcrop 70m SE in second 540m ring contour may be as high.

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

Survey method
Abney level/Trimble GeoXH 6000
Record revised
23-Oct-23
Drop measured from
SN815172 · 503 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 Disgwylfa
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
The Morgan Brothers' Coffee ShopRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 53.3 km · SE
Tafarn-y-GarregPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 53.7 km · E
Penycae InnPub/bar/nightclub2 out of 55 km · SE

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

Disgwylfa 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, 503 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
Carreg Goch558.3 m0.9 km
Fan Hir760 m3.4 km
Waun Lefrith676.1 m3.9 km
Bannau Sir Gaer - Picws Du749.1 m4 km
Fan Brycheiniog - Twr y Fan Foel802.5 m4.3 km
Fan Foel781 m4.5 km