Y Lliwedd

About Y Lliwedd

Y Lliwedd is linked to Snowdon, and its eastern side falls away in steep cliffs above Llyn Llydaw and Glaslyn. For anyone coming up by the Miners' or Pyg tracks it is the peak that dominates the view, and walkers on the Snowdon Horseshoe cross it as part of the round.

The mountain has a long climbing history. George Mallory served much of his early apprenticeship on these rocks, the north face was being explored by the close of the 19th century, and in 1909 it became the subject of Britain's first climbing guidebook, The Climbs on Lliwedd. The 1953 British Everest Expedition also trained here in some quantity.

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, -4.057. 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.

The Y Lliwedd group

3 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Y Lliwedd 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