Garnedd-goch

About Garnedd-goch

Garnedd Goch is a top of Craig Cwm Silyn and one of the peaks making up the Nantlle Ridge, where it is the third highest point. The summit is littered with rock debris and carries both a trig point and a cairn.

The panorama takes in the Nebo TV mast, and this is one of very few places from which the castles of Criccieth, Harlech and Caernarfon can all be seen at once.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Garnedd Goch (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 53.022, -4.221. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is ancient cairn by trig point. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

23-Oct-23

Drop measured from

SH519499 · 677 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

Garnedd-goch is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Craig Cwm Silyn (734 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 677 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