Walks from Llangynllo station
4 listed hills have a summit within 8 km of the platform at Llangynllo — the closest is Pool Hill at 4 km, the highest Beacon Hill at 547 m. Distances are straight lines, not routes: this page tells you a car-free day is possible here, and the planning is still yours.
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- Station code
- LGO
- Grid reference
- SO209730
- Coordinates
- 52.34963, -3.16137
- Locality
- Llangynllo
- Operator
- TfW Rail
- Entries & exits
- 752 · #2,556 of 2,589
- Hills in reach
- 4
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.
About Llangynllo station
Llangynllo is a countryside stop on the Heart of Wales Line in Powys, about 5 miles west of Knighton. The station stands 1.4 miles north of the village it is named after, at road level beside one house and two cottages on a minor rural road off the B4356. Trains are operated by Transport for Wales; recorded usage was 752 in the year from April 2024 to March 2025.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Llangynllo railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0). Coordinates and the passenger figure come from NaPTAN and the ORR, not from Wikipedia.
The 4 hills within 8 km
Every hill from our dataset for which Llangynllo 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 | Pool Hill | 516 m | Dewey | 4 km | NW |
| 2 | Beacon Hill | 547 m | DeweyMarilynHuMP | 5 km | NW |
| 3 | Stanky Hill | 506.6 m | Dewey | 5.7 km | NW |
| 4 | Fron-wen | 546 m | Dewey | 7.6 km | S |
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 Llangynllo 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.
Long-distance paths from this station
2 waymarked long-distance routes pass within 2 km of the station — a made line to follow out of the door, or a way to link this station to the next one down the line.
| Route | Total length | From station |
|---|---|---|
| Glyndŵr's Way | 219 km | 0.5 km |
| Heart of Wales Line Trail | 231 km | 1.8 km |
Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the station computed by OpenFell.
Daylight here today
- Sunrise
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- Sunset
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- Daylight
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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.
- Llangynllo on National Rail — live departures, facilities, engineering work.
- OS Maps · Google Maps