- Height
- 522 m · 1,713 ft
- Prominence
- 62 m
- Grid reference
- SN 93590 72147
- Coordinates
- 52.33702, -3.56325
- County / area
- Powys
- Region
- South-West Wales
- OS Landranger
- 136 147
- OS Explorer
- 200W
- Summit feature
- rock
- Key col
- SN906736 (460 m)
Access rights here
Conditional Right to roam: Right to roam only on mapped CRoW open access land.
Permission needed Wild camping: Permission needed everywhere.
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
- Sunrise
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- Sunset
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- Daylight
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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for 52.337, -3.563. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.
Summit weather live
Loading forecast for the summit (522 m)…
Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).
Finding the summit
small cairn 50m SE at SN 93622 72110 is 20cm lower; ground 55m SW at SN 93543 72117 is 20cm lower.
The recorded summit point is rock. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.
- Survey method
- Abney level
- Record revised
- 23-Oct-23
- Drop measured from
- SN906736 · 460 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).
| Place | Type | Rating | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Eagles Inn | Hotel/bed & breakfast/guest house | 1 out of 5 | 5.3 km · SE |
| Evans Plaice | Takeaway/sandwich shop | 5 out of 5 | 5.3 km · SE |
| Freedom Leisure | Pub/bar/nightclub | 5 out of 5 | 5.3 km · SE |
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
Moelfryn is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Pen y Garn (611 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 460 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
| Peak | Height | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Penrhiw-wen | 510.1 m | 1.6 km |
| Cerrig Llwydion | 509 m | 2.8 km |
| Esgair Penygarreg | 532.6 m | 3.5 km |
| Esgair y Llwyn | 538 m | 4.5 km |
| Pen Lan-fawr | 526 m | 5.3 km |
| Moel Hywel | 505 m | 6.7 km |