Moel Sych

About Moel Sych

Moel Sych is a subsidiary summit of Cadair Berwyn, and the third highest point in the Berwyn range after Cadair Berwyn itself and Cadair Berwyn North Top. Its cairned top overlooks Llyn Lluncaws in the cwm to the south.

The summit sits where the historic boundaries of Montgomeryshire, Denbighshire and Merionethshire meet, and it is the historic county top of Montgomeryshire. For a long time it was taken to be the highest of the Berwyns, until the top then called Cadair Berwyn was measured at the same height, and the Ordnance Survey later identified a point between the two some five metres higher at 832 m. That summit now carries the name Cadair Berwyn, appearing as Cadair Berwyn New Top on the Nuttall list.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Moel Sych (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 52.876, -3.389. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

obvious summit/Trimble GeoXH 6000

Record revised

19-Oct-14

Drop measured from

SJ 0694 3214 · 792.7 m

Classification history: Formerly thought to be historic Denbighshire County Top, but Cadair Berwyn (hill 2087) is 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Moel Sych 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, 793 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