Mwdwl-eithin

About Mwdwl-eithin

Mwdwl-eithin is the highest point of the Denbigh Moors (Mynydd Hiraethog) in North Wales, a gently rising moorland hill of 532 metres about ten miles east of Betws-y-Coed. On the summit are a trig point and a ruined building that still offers shelter in a storm, with a large raised stone cairn a few metres away.

The whole area is underlain by Silurian mudstone and was extensively glaciated during the last British glaciation; today it is very wet moorland dominated by heather and rushes. Three of the surrounding valleys and hollows hold drinking-water reservoirs — Llyn Alwen, Llyn Aled and the Alwen Reservoir — and there have been repeated proposals to build a wind farm on the hill.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Mwdwl-eithin (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 53.073, -3.618. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is trig point. 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

SH929499 · 270 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

One place 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 Mwdwl-eithin group

3 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Mwdwl-eithin 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