Foel Wen South Top

About Foel Wen South Top

Foel Wen South Top is the subsidiary summit of Foel Wen in north-east Wales, one of several tops along the most easterly of Cadair Berwyn's long southern ridges. Tomle stands to the north and Mynydd Tarw to the south. The summit is grassy and carries no marker.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Foel Wen South Top (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 52.887, -3.336. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is no feature. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica NA730/Leica GS15/Trimble GeoXH 6000

Record revised

19-Apr-15

Drop measured from

SJ 1010 3326 · 666.3 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 Wen South Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Cadair Berwyn (832 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 666 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