Drygarn Fawr

About Drygarn Fawr

Drygarn Fawr is one of the highest points in Mid Wales, rising from the remote moorland plateau of the Cambrian Mountains in Powys, south of the Elan Valley Reservoirs and west of the Radnor Forest peaks.

Its form is gentle, grassy and roughly conical, with a scattering of rock near the top, and the summit carries two large and distinctive cairns. Gorllwyn, Y Gamriw and Drum yr Eira, all above 600 m, lie nearby.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Drygarn Fawr (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 52.212, -3.666. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is large cairn 65m NE of trig point. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Record revised

09-Jul-22

Drop measured from

SN857754 · 386 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.

The Drygarn Fawr group

One other listed summit sits in the same prominence group, with Drygarn Fawr 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