Llechog

About Llechog

Llechog is a top of Garnedd Ugain on the Snowdon massif, and it marks the far end of a long crest of cliffs running up from Llanberis to Garnedd Ugain itself. The summit is a rocky point standing proud of that crest, with the ground dropping abruptly to the Nant Peris valley below.

The outlook takes in Glyder Fawr, Y Garn, Elidir Fawr and Crib Goch at close quarters. Clogwyn Station, a stop on the Snowdon Mountain Railway, lies nearby. Note that a second Llechog exists about half a mile south-west of the Snowdon summit, above Cwm Clogwyn, so the name alone can be ambiguous.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Llechog (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 53.090, -4.083. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is rock. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level/Trimble GeoXH 6000

Record revised

19-Oct-14

Drop measured from

SH 6055 5663 · 692.1 m

Classification history: summit surveyed as 720.0 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

Llechog is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Snowdon - Yr Wyddfa (1,085 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 692 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