Guide highlights Wales' remotest hills
The booklet provides a hill list of some of the most remote places in Wales like Tyle Garw. Photo: Mark Trengove |
A new booklet, Y Pellennig: The Remotest Hills of Wales, is
attempting to answer that very question.
Topping the list in Wales is West Tump, which is a 17m (55ft)
high rock out in the Celtic Sea.
On mainland Wales, the 467m (1,532ft) high Tyle Garw in the
Brecon Beacons is 4.9km (3 miles) from the nearest road.
Qualification to be listed among Y Pellennig - which translates
from Welsh as far or outlying - requires the hills to be a minimum of 2.5km
(1.5 miles) from summit to the nearest road and a minimum of 15m (50ft) of drop
from the summit to the lowest point connecting the hill to next higher ground.
The booklet, by Myrddyn Phillips and Aled Williams, provides a
hill list that will take the user to some of the most beautiful land in Wales.
Snowdon is the highest mountain in Wales |
Remote
wonders
§ Airy tops of the dramatic Worm's Head headland, Gower
§ Lonely sentinel of Ynys Llanddwyn that forms the
south-western tip of Anglesey
§ Mynydd Enlli, Bardsey Island, Gwynedd
§ Hills found on Ramsey Island, Pembrokeshire, and
Garnedd Uchaf - or Carnedd Gwenllian - in the high Carneddau range of Snowdonia
§ Highest point in Wales, Snowdon
Mr Phillips said: "It is a
unique concept and challenge as no grouping of hills have been listed by
remoteness and no known person has visited all the summits.
"Each hill name has been
painstakingly researched by Aled Williams taking in all available Ordnance
Survey maps, old estate survey maps, nautical charts and many local enquiries.
"Many of the islands listed are
out of bounds during the summer due to seabird nesting colonies, or their
general inaccessibility."
The small island of Ynyd Bery, south of Ramsey Island in Pembrokeshire. Photo: Mark Trengove |
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