Pen Allt-mawr, Brecon Beacons

Name: Pen Allt-mawr
Address: Brecon Beacons, United Kingdom

#38 among attractions in Brecon Beacons

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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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. A very recognisable and prominent peak of the Black Mountains, it lies near the end of the more westerly of Waun Fach's two broad southern ridges. Its top Pen Twyn Glas is to the north, while its close neighbour Pen Cerrig-calch is to the south. A prominent spur 1 km to the SSW of the summit is known as Pen Gloch-y-pibwr. The stepped Bryniog ridge curves southward from this point. ()

Elevation: 2359 ftProminence: 335 ftCoordinates: 51°54'42"N, 3°9'16"W

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Brecon Beacons United Kingdom

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Pen Allt-mawr – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

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

2.3 miSW
Forts and castles, Museum, History museum
Tretower Court, Brecon Beacons
60 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.
3.7 miS
Nightlife
Bear Hotel, Crickhowell
95 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.
3.8 miS
Historical place, Town, Forts and castles
Crickhowell Castle, Crickhowell
98 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.
2.3 miSW
Forts and castles
Tretower Castle, Crickhowell
60 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.
3.9 miS
Bridge
Crickhowell Bridge, Crickhowell
99 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.
1.4 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Pen Cerrig-calch, Brecon Beacons
35 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.
3.7 miS
Church
St Edmund's Church, Crickhowell
95 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.
3.6 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Waun Fach, Brecon Beacons
91 min walk • Waun Fach is, with a summit height of 811 metres, the highest mountain in the Black Mountains in south-eastern Wales. It is one of the three Marilyns over 600 m that make up the range, the others being Black Mountain and Mynydd Troed.
3.5 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Natural feature
Black Mountains, Brecon Beacons
90 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.
2.5 miSE
Archaeological site
Crug Hywel, Brecon Beacons
64 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.
3.3 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mynydd Llangorse, Brecon Beacons
85 min walk • Mynydd Llangorse is a hill on the western edge of the Black Mountains in the Brecon Beacons National Park in Powys, south Wales. It lies two miles east of Llangors and its lake and 5 miles south of Talgarth. Its summit at 515m overtops the location 600m to the south at which a trig point is sited by 9m.