South Wales Traverse

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The South Wales Traverse is a long distance fell running challenge across the mountains of south Wales. It is a linear route of around 120 kilometres taking in some 31 summits over 610 metres high, providing around 5,500 metres of ascent. ()

Coordinates: 51°50'60"N, 3°50'42"W

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South Wales Traverse – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Carreg Cennen Castle, Waun Lefrith, Llyn y Fan Fach, Y Garn Goch.

3.8 miW
Forts and castles, Historical place, View point
Carreg Cennen Castle, Brecon Beacons
98 min walk • Carreg Cennen Castle is a castle sited on a high rocky outcrop overlooking the River Cennen, close to the village of Trap, four miles south of Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire, Wales.
4.6 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Waun Lefrith, Brecon Beacons
118 min walk • Waun Lefrith is a top of Picws Du and is also the westernmost of the Carmarthen Fans or Bannau Sir Gaer, a group of peaks within the Black Mountain of the Brecon Beacons National Park. It lies within Carmarthenshire, Wales.
4.9 miNE
Natural attraction, Lake, Body of water
Llyn y Fan Fach, Brecon Beacons
126 min walk • Llyn y Fan Fach is a lake of approximately 10 hectares on the northern margin of the Black Mountain in Carmarthenshire, South Wales and lying within the Brecon Beacons National Park.
4.4 miNW
Archaeological site
Y Garn Goch, Brecon Beacons
112 min walk • Y Garn Goch is a hill in the Brecon Beacons National Park in the east of Carmarthenshire, Wales. The name means the 'red cairn'. It lies near the village of Bethlehem, three miles southwest of Llangadog and four miles east of Llandeilo on the southern side of the broad Towy Valley.
3 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Tair Carn Uchaf, Brecon Beacons
78 min walk • Tair Carn Uchaf is a hill in the Brecon Beacons National Park in the county of Carmarthenshire, Wales. Its summit sits atop a plateau-like ridge at 482 metres above sea level and is marked by one of the three huge cairns which give the mountain its name.
0.7 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Garreg Lwyd, Brecon Beacons
18 min walk • Garreg Lwyd, also known as Moel Gornach, is a peak in the Black Mountain of the Brecon Beacons, South Wales. It is a subsidiary summit of Fan Brycheiniog. It is the westernmost area over 2,000 feet above sea level in South Wales.
1.6 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Foel Fraith, Brecon Beacons
42 min walk • Foel Fraith is a hill in the Black Mountain in the county of Carmarthenshire, southwest Wales. It lies within the Brecon Beacons National Park and Fforest Fawr Geopark. Its plateau-like summit attains a height of 602 metres above sea level.
3.8 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Llygad Llwchwr, Brecon Beacons
98 min walk • Llygad Llwchwr is a 1.2 km-long cave system in the Black Mountain which forms the westernmost range of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales.
4.7 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Carreg Dwfn, Brecon Beacons
120 min walk • Carreg Dwfn is a hill four miles southeast of Llandeilo and just to the south of the village of Trap in the county of Carmarthenshire, south Wales. It lies at the western extremity of the Brecon Beacons National Park and Fforest Fawr Geopark. Its summit at 283 metres is towards the eastern end of a rocky east-west-aligned ridge.
3.7 miW
Park
Carreg Cennan, Brecon Beacons
95 min walk • Carreg Cennan is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Carmarthenshire, Wales. The site consists of a 19.5-hectare strip of land surrounding a line of carboniferous limestone cliffs.
3.2 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Garreg Las, Brecon Beacons
81 min walk • Garreg Las is a subsidiary summit of Fan Brycheiniog in the Brecon Beacons National Park in Carmarthenshire, southern Wales. Its summit sits towards the northern end of a broad north-south ridge, Esgair Hir, at 635 metres above sea level.