Pen y Garn

About Pen y Garn

Pen y Garn, whose name means head of the cairn, tops a plateau of 500 to 600 m in the Cambrian Mountains of mid Wales. The Cefn Croes wind farm occupies part of that plateau and its turbines stand very close to the summit.

The high point has a trig point and a very large shelter cairn hollowed out of what remains of an ancient burial cairn. Some 10 km north the whole Plynlimon range is visible, taking in Y Garn, Pen Pumlumon Fawr, Pen Pumlumon Llygad-bychan and Pen Pumlumon Arwystli; Aberystwyth lies 21 km west and Drygarn Fawr 20 km to the south-south-east.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Pen y Garn (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 52.379, -3.767. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

Abney level/Trimble GeoXH 6000

Record revised

19-Oct-14

Drop measured from

SN796839 · 417 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.

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