Foel Goch

About Foel Goch

This Foel Goch is a subsidiary summit of Esgeiriau Gwynion, part of the group of hills called the Hirnantau which rise from the south-eastern shores of Llyn Tegid.

The top at 613 m is boggy and marked by a few stones. Looking back to the south are Foel y Geifr and Trum y Gwragedd, while northern Eryri fills the view to the north-west.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Foel Goch (Hirnant) (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 52.849, -3.570. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

Abney level/Leica 530

Record revised

23-Oct-23

Drop measured from

SH943287 · 566 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 Goch is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Esgeiriau Gwynion (670 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 566 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