Foel Boeth

About Foel Boeth

Foel Boeth is one of a pair of twin tops in the Arenig range, in the southern part of Eryri, with Moel Llyfnant as its parent peak. The Nuttall list includes both tops, naming the higher one Gallt y Daren and the lower Foel Boeth, although the name Foel Boeth is often applied to the pair as a whole.

The summit at 615 m is grassy and marked by a small pile of stones.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Foel Boeth (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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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 52.891, -3.815. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is small rock 8m SW of pile of stones. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica NA730/Leica 530

Record revised

08-Dec-18

Drop measured from

SH 7790 3425 · 598.6 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Foel Boeth is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Moel Llyfnant (751 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 599 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