Gwaunceste Hill

About Gwaunceste Hill

Gwaunceste Hill (Welsh: Bryn Gwaun-cest) is a 542-metre hill in Powys, east Wales, within the communities of Gladestry and Glascwm — around four kilometres east of the village of Hundred House and two kilometres north of the hamlet of Glascwm.

The River Arrow's headwaters gather on the hill's eastern slopes, while the western slopes drain into the River Edw, a tributary of the River Wye. Two subsidiary tops, to the south-east and south-west, are both known as Little Hill.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Gwaunceste Hill (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 52.192, -3.233. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Record revised

24-Oct-23

Drop measured from

SO 1695 5822 · 377 m

Classification history: col 300m WNW at SO 1667 5835 is 2.7m higher.

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

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).

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.

The Gwaunceste Hill group

3 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Gwaunceste Hill as the independent hill at its head.

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