Foel Goch
3 classifications here — Marilyn, HuMP and Simm — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.
- Height
- 611 m · 2,005 ft
- Prominence
- 274 m
- Grid reference
- SH 95382 42295
- Coordinates
- 52.96776, -3.55923
- County / area
- Conwy/Gwynedd
- OS Landranger
- 125
- OS Explorer
- OL18E
- Summit feature
- ground 1m N of trig point
- Key col
- SH917439 (337 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
- Sunrise
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- Sunset
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- Daylight
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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for 52.968, -3.559. 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
The recorded summit point is ground 1m N of trig point. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- obvious summit
- Record revised
- 28-Oct-01
- Drop measured from
- SH917439 · 337 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).
| Place | Type | Rating | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caerau Uchaf | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 3.4 km · SE |
| Y Badell Aur | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 6.8 km · S |
| Manon's Riverside Cafe | Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen | 5 out of 5 | 6.8 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.
The Foel Goch group
4 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Foel Goch as the independent hill at its head.
| Summit | Height | Drop |
|---|---|---|
| Garnedd Fawr | 569 m | 47 m |
| Orddu | 555 m | 34 m |
| Moel Emoel | 549 m | 88 m |
| Pen y Bwlch Gwyn | 502 m | 33 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Orddu | 555 m | 1 km |
| Garnedd Fawr | 569 m | 1.6 km |
| Pen y Bwlch Gwyn | 502 m | 2.4 km |
| Moel Emoel | 549 m | 2.6 km |
| Moel y Gydros | 522.3 m | 5 km |
| Graig Ddu | 537 m | 6.5 km |