Walks from Ebbw Vale Town station
6 listed hills have a summit within 8 km of the platform at Ebbw Vale Town — the closest is Mynydd Carn-y-cefn at 1.8 km, the highest Coety Mountain at 577 m. Distances are straight lines, not routes: this page tells you a car-free day is possible here, and the planning is still yours.
- Station code
- EBB
- Grid reference
- SO171093
- Coordinates
- 51.77669, -3.20258
- Locality
- Ebbw Vale
- Operator
- TfW Rail
- Entries & exits
- 248,760 · #1,257 of 2,589
- Hills in reach
- 6
Passenger figure is the ORR estimate of all entries and exits, April 2024 to March 2025 — a measure of how busy (or wonderfully quiet) the station is, not of train frequency.
The 6 hills within 8 km
Every hill from our dataset for which Ebbw Vale Town is one of the 3 nearest stations. Follow a name for the full record — heights, prominence, access rights, live summit weather and daylight.
| # | Hill | Height | Classifications | From station | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mynydd Carn-y-cefn | 550 m | DeweyMarilynHuMP | 1.8 km | SE |
| 2 | Y Domen Fawr | 504 m | DeweyHuMP | 2.2 km | S |
| 3 | Cefn Coch | 571 m | Dewey | 5 km | E |
| 4 | Coety Mountain | 576.5 m | DeweyCurrent County/UA TopMarilyn+1 | 6.2 km | E |
| 5 | Gwastad | 551 m | Dewey | 7.4 km | SE |
| 6 | Mynydd Llangynidr | 557.6 m | DeweyHuMP | 7.5 km | NW |
A hill 8 km away in a straight line can be a much longer day on the ground — and on rural lines the last train home leaves early and some stations are request stops with a handful of services a day. Check live times and facilities for Ebbw Vale Town before you commit, plan the route on a proper map, and give the daylight planner your real finish time.
Hill data from the Database of British & Irish Hills v18.3 (CC BY 4.0). Station position from NaPTAN (Department for Transport, OGL v3.0); passenger estimates from the Office of Rail and Road (OGL v3.0). Distances and bearings computed by OpenFell, summit to platform.
Daylight here today
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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for the station. Walking to a timetable means walking to the light: set your turnaround with the daylight safety planner.
Plan the day
- Walking-time calculator — Naismith with terrain and fitness corrections.
- Access checker — what the land around here allows.
- Kit-list generator — packed for the forecast, not for habit.
- Ebbw Vale Town on National Rail — live departures, facilities, engineering work.
- OS Maps · Google Maps