Waun Camddwr

About Waun Camddwr

Waun Camddwr is a top of Aran Fawddwy, occupying the highest ground on a wide boggy expanse between Aran Fawddwy itself and Glasgwm. The summit is a rocky outcrop rising out of heather, long grass and peat bog, with Gwaun y Llwyni to the south.

It owes its place on the Nuttall list to a later survey: it was measured after the original list was compiled and found to have just enough prominence to qualify.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Waun Camddwr (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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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 52.770, -3.710. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is rounded rock. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica NA730/Leica GS15/Trimble GeoXH 6000

Record revised

30-May-15

Drop measured from

SH 85069 20707 · 606.2 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

Waun Camddwr is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Aran Fawddwy (906 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 606 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