Waun Garnedd-y-Filiast

About Waun Garnedd-y-Filiast

Waun Garnedd-y-filiast is a top of Carnedd y Filiast in the Arenig range, sitting on the Snowdonia National Park boundary near Cerrigydrudion. It falls within the Migneint, a broad tract of moorland, and the summit is a small plateau of bog and peat hags with a few stones to mark the top. Foel Goch, Carnedd Llechwedd-llyfn and Mwdwl-eithin are all visible from it.

It was absent from the Nuttalls' original list. A 1999 survey measured its re-ascent at 15.1295 m, marginally short of the 50 ft threshold, which caused some controversy over its inclusion.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Waun Garnedd-y-filiast (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 52.993, -3.679. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is small cairn W of fence. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica NA730/Leica GS15

Record revised

17-Sep-18

Drop measured from

SH873450 · 635.8 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).

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

Waun Garnedd-y-Filiast is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Carnedd y Filiast (669 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 636 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