Foel Rhudd

About Foel Rhudd

Foel Rhudd is a top of Esgeiriau Gwynion in north Wales, crowning a broad expanse of peat bog with nothing more than a scatter of stones to mark the highest ground. The parent summit of Esgeiriau Gwynion lies directly west across a shallow col of peat hags, while a short ridge runs south to connect with Llechwedd Du.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Foel Rhudd (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 52.802, -3.640. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is three sunken white quartz stones. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

23-Oct-23

Drop measured from

SH892239 · 640 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 Rhudd 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, 640 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