Moel y Cerrig Duon

About Moel y Cerrig Duon

Moel y Cerrig Duon is a subsidiary summit of Esgeiriau Gwynion, and with Llechwedd Du it caps the eastern end of a long peat bog plateau. The cone rises abruptly out of that bog; the top itself is grassy, with a small cairn and a stake.

Foel y Geifr lies to the north-east, Cyrniau Nod to the east, and Llechwedd Du, Esgeiriau Gwynion and Aran Fawddwy to the west. Its south-western top, Foel y Groes at 582 m, is otherwise unremarkable but divides the Dee, Severn and Dyfi catchments.

South of here the Aran range continues into a broad tract of high moorland west of Lake Vyrnwy, crowned by Mynydd Coch.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Moel y Cerrig Duon (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 52.804, -3.598. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

Abney level/Leica RX1250

Record revised

05-Feb-23

Drop measured from

SH913232 · 545 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.

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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Moel y Cerrig Duon is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Esgeiriau Gwynion (670 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 545 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