Y Lliwedd East Top

About Y Lliwedd East Top

The East Top is a subsidiary summit of Y Lliwedd, the mountain linked to Snowdon whose eastern face drops in steep cliffs above Llyn Llydaw and Glaslyn. At about 893 m it sits just below the main top's 898 m and is listed as a Nuttall in its own right.

Walkers on the Snowdon Horseshoe pass over Y Lliwedd, and the peak is the most prominent one seen by those approaching Snowdon along the Miners' and Pyg tracks. Its north face has a long climbing record, explored from the late 19th century and described in the 1909 guide The Climbs on Lliwedd.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Y Lliwedd (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 53.059, -4.055. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

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

Y Lliwedd East Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Y Lliwedd (898 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 873 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.

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