Ysgafell Wen North Top

About Ysgafell Wen North Top

Ysgafell Wen North Top lies north of Ysgafell Wen, the highest point of their shared Snowdonia ridge, and like it is a subsidiary summit of Allt-fawr.

The top stands at the lip of Cwm Edno, where the ground drops steeply into the cwm. Small tarns known as Llynnau'r Cwn, the dog lakes, lie about the summit. To the west is Ysgafell Wen Far North Top.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Ysgafell Wen North Top (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 53.017, -3.994. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is small cairn on rocky outcrop. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level/Leica RX1250

Record revised

29-Mar-23

Drop measured from

SH 6631 4833 · 638 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.

Which hill this one belongs to

Ysgafell Wen North Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Allt-fawr (698 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 638 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