Wales · Bannau Brycheiniog National Park

Pen Twyn Glas

Height
646 m · 2,119 ft
Grid reference
SO 21303 25738
Coordinates
51.92454, -3.14585
County / area
Powys
OS Landranger
161
OS Explorer
OL13N
Summit feature
small cairn
Key col
SO 2072 2538 (625.9 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 51.925, -3.146. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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

Finding the summit

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

Survey method
obvious summit
Record revised
31-Mar-20
Drop measured from
SO 2072 2538 · 625.9 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.

Long-distance paths past this hill

One waymarked long-distance route runs within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.

RouteTotal lengthFrom summit
Cambrian Way 483 km over the top

Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

Which hill this one belongs to

Pen Twyn Glas is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Waun Fach (811 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 626 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
Pen Allt-mawr 719.6 m 1.6 km
Mynydd Llysiau 663 m 2.3 km
Pen Twyn Mawr 658 m 3.1 km
Pen Cerrig-calch 701 m 3.3 km
Pen y Gadair Fawr 800 m 3.4 km
Waun Fach 811 m 4.3 km