Wales

Red Hill

Height
509.5 m · 1,672 ft
Grid reference
SO 15652 50110
Coordinates
52.14278, -3.23402
County / area
Powys
OS Landranger
148
OS Explorer
188 200E
Summit feature
no feature 15m N of trig point
Key col
SO 1556 5071 (432.5 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 52.143, -3.234. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (510 m)…

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

Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

ground is 40cm higher than trig point base.

The recorded summit point is no feature 15m N of 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/Trimble GeoXH 6000
Record revised
12-Sep-15
Drop measured from
SO 1556 5071 · 432.5 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 Red Hill
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Rhosgoch Golf ClubPub/bar/nightclub3 out of 53.9 km · SE
Roast Ox InnPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 53.9 km · S
Hundred House InnPub/bar/nightclub3 out of 56.2 km · NW

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

Red Hill is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Gwaunceste Hill (542 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 433 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
Glascwm Hill522 m2.7 km
Gwaunceste Hill542.1 m5.4 km
Llanfihangel Hill532.2 m6.5 km
Nyth-grug538 m10.7 km
Whimble598.8 m13.4 km
Great Rhos660 m14 km