Crug Mawr, Brecon Beacons

Name: Crug Mawr
Address: Brecon Beacons, United Kingdom

#95 among attractions in Brecon Beacons

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Crug Mawr is a hill in the Black Mountains in the Brecon Beacons National Park in southern Powys, Wales. Its summit at a height of 550 m is marked by a trig point. The peak sits high above the valleys of the Grwyne Fawr and Grwyne Fechan to the north of the more well-known Sugar Loaf. The views from here across the Black Mountains are wide-ranging and also extend eastwards across Monmouthshire. Four ridges run off to the northwest, east, southeast and southwest, the last ending in the subsidiary summit of Blaen-yr-henbant. ()

Elevation: 1804 ftCoordinates: 51°53'52"N, 3°4'25"W

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Brecon Beacons United Kingdom

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Crug Mawr – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Beacons Way, Bear Hotel, Longtown Castle, Church of St Martin.

5.7 miSE
Hiking, Hiking trail
Beacons Way, Brecon Beacons
145 min walk • The Beacons Way is a waymarked long distance footpath in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales. It is a linear route which runs for 99 miles east to west through the National Park, and passes many of the most important landmarks and mountain peaks in the mountain range.
3.8 miSW
Nightlife
Bear Hotel, Crickhowell
97 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.
5.4 miNE
Forts and castles
Longtown Castle
139 min walk • Longtown Castle, also termed Ewias Lacey Castle in early accounts, is a ruined Norman motte-and-bailey fortification in Longtown, Herefordshire. It was established in the 11th century by Walter de Lacy, reusing former Roman earthworks.
2.3 miE
Church
Church of St Martin, Brecon Beacons
60 min walk • The Church of St Martin, Cwmyoy, Monmouthshire, Wales, was begun in the 12th century, although most of the current structure dates from the 13th century. The church is most notable for its extreme tilt, the result of a landslide.
5.1 miSE
Natural attraction, Hiking trail, Park
Ysgyryd Fawr, Abergavenny
130 min walk • Ysgyryd Fawr is an easterly outlier of the Black Mountains in Wales, and forms the easternmost part of the Brecon Beacons National Park. The hill is often referred to locally as just The Skirrid. The smaller hill of Ysgyryd Fach or "Little Skirrid" lies about 4.5 km / 2.5 mi to the south.
2.5 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Sugar Loaf, Brecon Beacons
64 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.
2.8 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Pen Cerrig-calch, Brecon Beacons
72 min walk • 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.
3.4 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Hatterrall Hill, Brecon Beacons
87 min walk • Hatterrall Hill is a rounded peak in the Black Mountains which sits on the Wales-England border, partly in Monmouthshire, Wales and partly in Herefordshire, England. Its summit at 531m is the high point of a peaty plateau which falls away steeply on all sides. Broad ridges run to the north, the southeast and southwest.
5.8 miSE
Shopping, City wall
Abergavenny town walls, Abergavenny
149 min walk • Abergavenny's town walls are a sequence of defensive walls built around the town of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales.
1 miE
Church
Church of St Issui, Brecon Beacons
27 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.
2.6 miSW
Archaeological site
Crug Hywel, Brecon Beacons
67 min walk • Crug Hywel is an Iron Age Celtic hillfort, with a clearly visible earth and stone ditch and rampart. Crug Hywel is approached by a couple of public footpaths across farmland from Crickhowell and Llanbedr and visited by the Beacons Way.