Moel y Gaer

About Moel y Gaer

Moel y Gaer is a summit of Llantysilio Mountain in Denbighshire, north-west of the town of Llangollen. Its name — Welsh for 'bald hill of the fortress' — refers to the Iron Age hillfort that occupies the top.

The fort holds scheduled-monument status, classified as a prehistoric defensive hillfort, and is looked after as part of the Heather and Hillforts Project — a scheme covering six hillforts altogether: the four most southerly forts of the Clwydian Range, this one and Caer Drewyn.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Moel y Gaer, Llantysilio (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 53.008, -3.243. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is no feature: heather next to path on north side. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit/Trimble GeoXH 6000

Record revised

30-Oct-14

Drop measured from

SJ165462 · 465.8 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 Gaer is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Moel y Gamelin (577 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 466 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