Wales

Gwastad

Height
551 m · 1,808 ft
Grid reference
SO 23476 05428
Coordinates
51.74227, -3.10976
County / area
Blaenau Gwent
OS Landranger
161
OS Explorer
OL13S 152
Summit feature
no feature
Key col
SO230067 (504 m)

Access rights here

Conditional Right to roam: Right to roam only on mapped CRoW open access land.

Permission needed Wild camping: Permission needed everywhere.

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 51.742, -3.110. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (551 m)…

Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

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
Abney level
Record revised
10-Mar-07
Drop measured from
SO230067 · 504 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.

Reaching Gwastad by train

2 National Rail stations sit within 8 km of the summit — close enough to make a car-free day of it. Distances are straight lines, not walking routes.

StationFrom summitSummit lies
Ebbw Vale Parkway6.2 kmE of the station
Ebbw Vale Town7.4 kmSE of the station

Each station page lists every hill in its reach, long-distance paths from the door and a live-times link — see all stations with hills in reach. Station positions from NaPTAN (OGL v3.0).

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Rated places to eat within 10 km of Gwastad
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
New Bridgend InnPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 51.7 km · W
Flame Pit GrillTakeaway/sandwich shop4 out of 51.7 km · W
Five Star Fish BarTakeaway/sandwich shop5 out of 51.9 km · SW

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

Which hill this one belongs to

Gwastad is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Coety Mountain (577 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 504 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

PeakHeightDistance
Coety Mountain576.5 m2.6 km
Cefn Coch571 m4.1 km
Mynydd Carn-y-cefn550 m5.6 km
Y Domen Fawr504 m7.1 km
Blorenge561 m7.3 km
Sugar Loaf596 m13.9 km