Waun Fach

About Waun Fach

At 811 metres, Waun Fach is the highest mountain in the Black Mountains of south-eastern Wales, and one of three Marilyns over 600 m in the range alongside Black Mountain and Mynydd Troed. South of Snowdonia it is the third highest in Britain, behind Pen y Fan and neighbouring Corn Du.

The summit is rounded to the point of being hard to pick out, and the ridge tops nearby, Pen Trumau and Pen y Gadair Fawr, are far more distinct despite being lower. The mountain stands at the head of the Grwyne Fechan valley, west of and above the Grwyne Fawr reservoir, with Rhos Fawr and the Radnor Forest in view to the north.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Waun Fach (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 51.963, -3.143. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

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

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

23-Dec-16

Drop measured from

SO 1120 2604 · 189.1 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.

Long-distance paths past this hill

One waymarked long-distance route runs within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.

Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

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).

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.

The Waun Fach group

9 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Waun Fach as the independent hill at its head.

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