Wales · Bannau Brycheiniog National Park

Pen Twyn Mawr

Height
658 m · 2,159 ft
Grid reference
SO 24228 26728
Coordinates
51.93384, -3.10354
County / area
Powys
OS Landranger
161
OS Explorer
OL13N
Summit feature
no feature 15m NE of cairn
Key col
SO242270 (640 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 51.934, -3.104. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (658 m)…

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

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is no feature 15m NE of cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Abney level
Record revised
23-Oct-23
Drop measured from
SO242270 · 640 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 Pen Twyn Mawr
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Treats CateringRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen5 out of 54.5 km · E
The Half Moon HotelPub/bar/nightclub4 out of 54.5 km · E
The Farmers ArmsPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 56.8 km · SW

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

Pen Twyn Mawr 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, 640 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 y Gadair Fawr800 m2.4 km
Chwarel y Fan679 m3.1 km
Pen Twyn Glas646 m3.1 km
Mynydd Llysiau663 m3.7 km
Waun Fach811 m4.2 km
Pen Allt-mawr719.6 m4.3 km