Wales

Stanky Hill

Height
506.6 m · 1,662 ft
Grid reference
SO 16393 76425
Coordinates
52.37942, -3.22972
County / area
Powys
OS Landranger
136 148
OS Explorer
214E
Summit feature
no feature: small area of loose flat stones near tiny pool
Key col
SO 16859 76411 (476.3 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 52.379, -3.230. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

Loading forecast for the summit (507 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: small area of loose flat stones near tiny pool. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Leica NA730/Leica 530
Record revised
28-Mar-12
Drop measured from
SO 16859 76411 · 476.3 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.

Reaching Stanky Hill by train

2 National Rail stations sit within 8 km of the summit — close enough to make a car-free day of it. Distances are straight lines, not walking routes.

StationFrom summitSummit lies
Llanbister Road4.9 kmN of the station
Llangynllo5.7 kmNW of the station

Each station page lists every hill in its reach, long-distance paths from the door and a live-times link — see all stations with hills in reach. Station positions from NaPTAN (OGL v3.0).

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 Stanky Hill
PlaceTypeRatingDistance
Radnorshire ArmsPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 54.5 km · NE
Wharf InnPub/bar/nightclub4 out of 54.8 km · N
Lion HotelPub/bar/nightclub5 out of 56.3 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

Stanky Hill is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Beacon Hill (547 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 476 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
Beacon Hill547 m1.3 km
Pool Hill516 m1.7 km
Warren Hill506.6 m2.4 km
Gors Lydan529.3 m3.8 km
Cilfaesty Hill528 m8.5 km
Bryn Coch518 m9.3 km