Moel y Gamelin

About Moel y Gamelin

Moel y Gamelin is a hill in Denbighshire, North Wales, to the north-west of Llangollen. It is the highest summit of a range stretching eastwards from near the village of Carrog to the Horseshoe Pass, whose western part is known as Llantysilio Mountain and whose eastern end is called Maesyrchen Mountain. The hill lies within the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The summit carries a round cairn of unknown date, some 30 metres across and 1.8 metres high.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Moel y Gamelin (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 53.010, -3.229. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

obvious summit/Trimble GeoXH 6000

Record revised

03-Jun-24

Drop measured from

SJ 0707 4754 · 195.7 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.

The Moel y Gamelin group

3 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Moel y Gamelin 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