Pen Cerrig-calch, Brecon Beacons

Name: Pen Cerrig-calch
Address: Brecon Beacons, United Kingdom

#23 among attractions in Brecon Beacons

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

Gallery (2)

Map

Gallery

Facts and practical information

Pen Cerrig-calch is a subsidiary summit of Waun Fach in the Black Mountains in the Brecon Beacons National Park in southern Powys, Wales. Its summit, at a height of 701 m, is marked by a trig point. The peak sits high above the River Usk valley as it narrows above the small town of Crickhowell.The views from here are wide-ranging and extend as far as the Beacons themselves to the west. A ridge runs off to the northwest and the shoulder of Pen Gloch-y-pibwr then turns north to the secondary top of Pen Allt-mawr whose peak at 719m is also crowned by a trig point. ()

Elevation: 2300 ftProminence: 171 ftCoordinates: 51°53'39"N, 3°8'21"W

Address

Brecon Beacons United Kingdom

ContactAdd

Social media

Facebook

Brecon Beacons

Day trips

Pen Cerrig-calch – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Tretower Court, Bear Hotel, Sugar Loaf, Crickhowell Castle.

2.1 miW
Forts and castles, Museum, History museum
Tretower Court, Brecon Beacons
53 min walk • Tretower Court is a medieval fortified manor house in Wales, situated in the village of Tretower, near Crickhowell in modern-day Powys, previously within the historical county of Breconshire or Brecknockshire.
2.4 miS
Nightlife
Bear Hotel, Crickhowell
62 min walk • The Bear Hotel, formerly the White Bear, stands on Beaufort Street, Crickhowell, Powys, Wales. A coaching inn from the mid 18th century, the building has older origins from the 17th and 15th centuries. It is a Grade II* listed building.
4.1 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Sugar Loaf, Brecon Beacons
105 min walk • Sugar Loaf, sometimes called The Sugar Loaf, is a hill situated 2 miles north-west of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales and sits within the Brecon Beacons National Park.
2.6 miS
Historical place, Town, Forts and castles
Crickhowell Castle, Crickhowell
66 min walk • Crickhowell Castle is a Grade I listed building in Crickhowell, Wales, now largely ruined. An alternative name, "Alisby's Castle", is sometimes used; this is thought to be after a former governor of the castle, Gerald Alisby.
2.1 miW
Forts and castles
Tretower Castle, Crickhowell
53 min walk • Tretower Castle is a Grade I-listed ruined castle in the village of Tretower in the county of Powys, Wales. It was built around the beginning of the twelfth century as a motte and bailey castle and this was probably replaced mid-century by a stone shell keep.
2.6 miS
Bridge
Crickhowell Bridge, Crickhowell
67 min walk • Crickhowell Bridge is an 18th-century bridge that spans the River Usk in Crickhowell, Powys, Wales. The main A4077 road to Gilwern crosses it. The bridge is claimed to be the longest stone bridge in Wales at over 128 metres.
4.2 miW
Bridge
Llangynidr Bridge, Brecon Beacons
108 min walk • Llangynidr Bridge, also known as "Coed-yr-Ynys Bridge", is an early 18th-century bridge that crosses the River Usk to the north of Llangynidr, Powys, Wales. It carries the B4560 road towards Bwlch.
2.4 miS
Church
St Edmund's Church, Crickhowell
63 min walk • St Edmund's Church is located in Crickhowell, in southeastern Powys, Wales. Built in the early 14th century, the church is dedicated to Saint Edmund the king and martyr. It has been known by this name from its establishment in 1303. In a will dated 1576 in the register office at Brecon, it is termed the parish of Saint Edmund.
1.4 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Pen Allt-mawr, Brecon Beacons
35 min walk • Pen Allt-mawr is a 719 metres high subsidiary summit of Waun Fach and the third highest peak in the Black Mountains in south-eastern Wales.
3.8 miE
Church
Church of St Issui, Brecon Beacons
98 min walk • The Church of St Issui, Partrishow, Powys, Wales, is a parish church dating from 1060. The existing building was mainly constructed in the 14th and 15th centuries and was sensitively restored in 1908–1909.
4.2 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Natural feature
Black Mountains, Brecon Beacons
107 min walk • The Black Mountains are a group of hills spread across parts of Powys and Monmouthshire in southeast Wales, and extending across the England–Wales border into Herefordshire.