Wales · Bannau Brycheiniog National Park

Rhos Dirion

Height
713.4 m · 2,341 ft
Grid reference
SO 21186 33347
Coordinates
51.99292, -3.14930
County / area
Powys
OS Landranger
161
OS Explorer
OL13N
Summit feature
no feature: ground 70m SE of trig point
Key col
SO 2060 3259 (691.1 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 51.993, -3.149. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

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Finding the summit

Surveyor's note

trig point is at SO 21149 33406; ground 20m SE of trig at SO 21158 33387 is slightly lower.

The recorded summit point is no feature: ground 70m SE of trig point. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Record revised
31-Mar-20
Drop measured from
SO 2060 3259 · 691.1 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Rhos Dirion 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, 691 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
Twmpa 690 m 2.1 km
Waun Fach 811 m 3.4 km
Black Mountain 703.6 m 4.8 km
Pen y Gadair Fawr 800 m 4.9 km
Mynydd Llysiau 663 m 5.4 km
Chwarel y Fan 679 m 6.1 km