Wales

Mynydd Caerau

Height
555.3 m · 1,822 ft
Grid reference
SS 89085 94458
Coordinates
51.63791, -3.60419
County / area
Bridgend/Neath Port Talbot
OS Landranger
170
OS Explorer
166W
Summit feature
no feature
Key col
SS 8956 9478 (465.4 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

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Computed astronomically for 51.638, -3.604. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (555 m)…

Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

ground 2m N of trig point 50m SW is 0.3m lower; ground at 556m spot is 2m lower; natural summit possibly at SS 89064 94464.

The recorded summit point is no feature. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Record revised
24-Dec-20
Drop measured from
SS 8956 9478 · 465.4 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).

Rated places to eat within 10 km of Mynydd Caerau
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Blaengarw Working Mens ClubPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 51.6 km · SE
Awen Cultural TrustPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 51.6 km · SE
Golden ValleyTakeaway/sandwich shop5 out of 51.8 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

Mynydd Caerau is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Craig y Llyn (600 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 465 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

PeakHeightDistance
Werfa568 m2.2 km
Twyn Crugyrafan559 m3.1 km
Mynydd Blaengwynfi528 m3.3 km
Mynydd Ynyscorrwg502 m3.6 km
Mynydd Ton539 m5.7 km
Mynydd Tynewydd518 m7.9 km