Foel Gron

About Foel Gron

Foel Gron is one of the summits on the Moel Eilio ridge in Eryri, north Wales. Walkers use the ridge as a line from Llanberis through to the top of Snowdon. At 629 m Foel Gron is a Hewitt, Nuttall and Simm; the source material says no more than this.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Foel Gron (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 53.089, -4.151. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is eastmost grassy knoll near fence corner. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level/Leica RX1250

Record revised

13-Dec-17

Drop measured from

SH 5589 5708 · 598.3 m

Classification history: summit measured as 629.0m.

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 Gron is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Moel Eilio (726 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 598 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