Walks from Pont-y-Pant station
7 listed hills have a summit within 8 km of the platform at Pont-y-Pant — the closest is Y Ro Wen at 3.7 km, the highest Moel Siabod at 872 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
- PYP
- Grid reference
- SH752536
- Coordinates
- 53.06513, -3.86272
- Locality
- Pont-y-Pant
- Operator
- TfW Rail
- Entries & exits
- 994 · #2,541 of 2,589
- Hills in reach
- 7
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 Pont-y-Pant station
Pont-y-Pant is a single-platform station in the Lledr Valley, on the Conwy Valley line from Llandudno Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog. The station house is well maintained and is used as a private dwelling. Trains are operated by Transport for Wales Rail; recorded usage was 994 in the year from April 2024 to March 2025.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Pont-y-Pant railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0). Coordinates and the passenger figure come from NaPTAN and the ORR, not from Wikipedia.
The 7 hills within 8 km
Every hill from our dataset for which Pont-y-Pant 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 | Y Ro Wen | 598.6 m | DeweyHuMP | 3.7 km | S |
| 2 | Moel Siabod | 872.2 m | HewittNuttallTrail 100+3 | 4.9 km | W |
| 3 | Craig Wen | 546.3 m | Dewey | 7.1 km | N |
| 4 | Pen y Bedw East Top | 527.8 m | Dewey | 7.2 km | SE |
| 5 | Craiglwyn | 621.9 m | Nuttall | 7.6 km | N |
| 6 | Carnedd y Cribau | 591 m | Dewey | 7.6 km | W |
| 7 | Foel Boeth | 509 m | Dewey | 7.8 km | SE |
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 Pont-y-Pant 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.
- Pont-y-Pant on National Rail — live departures, facilities, engineering work.
- OS Maps · Google Maps