Foel Wen

About Foel Wen

Foel Wen, pronounced roughly ˈvɔil ˈwɛn, is a subsidiary summit of Cadair Berwyn in north-east Wales, one of the tops strung along the most easterly of that mountain's long southern ridges. Tomle lies north; its own south top and Mynydd Tarw continue the ridge southwards.

The summit is grassy, and from it the whole face of Craig Berwyn is in view.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Foel Wen (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 52.891, -3.340. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is small wooden stake. 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 0938 3362 · 631.7 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 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, 632 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