Pen y Boncyn Trefeilw

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Pen y Boncyn Trefeilw
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Pen y Boncyn Trefeilw from Foel y Geifr
Highest point
Elevation 646 m (2,119 ft)
Prominence 57 m (187 ft)
Listing Hewitt, Nuttall
Naming
Language of name Welsh
Geography
Location Gwynedd, Wales
Parent range Berwyn range
OS grid SH 96255 28339
Topo map OS Landranger 125
Listed summits of Pen y Boncyn Trefeilw
NameGrid refHeightStatus
Stac Rhos SJ085335 630 metres (2,067 ft)sub Hewitt, Nuttall

Pen y Boncyn Trefeilw is a subsidiary summit of Cyrniau Nod in north east Wales. It forms a part of the Berwyn range called the Hirnantau. It has two tops: Stac Rhos and Pen y Cerrig Duon. Pen y Cerrig Duon is now listed as a deleted Nuttall due to re-surveying.

The views from the summit are extensive, if unremarkable due to the featureless, flat moorland surroundings. The summit is marked by a small cairn, is which located only a few metres from a track road that continues on to the pass between Cyrniau Nod and Y Groes Fagl. [1]

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References

  1. Nuttall, John & Anne (1999). The Mountains of England & Wales - Volume 1: Wales (2nd edition ed.). Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone. ISBN   1-85284-304-7.

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