Sugar Loaf
The Sugar Loaf is a hill situated two miles north-west of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales, within the Brecon Beacons National Park. It is the southernmost of the summit peaks of the Black Mountains, and rises to 1,955 feet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,955 feet
- Description: hill situated 2 miles north-west of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Sugar Loaf, Monmouthshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bryn Arw and St Issui’s Church.
Bryn Arw
Peak
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bryn Arw is a hill in the Black Mountains of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Monmouthshire, south Wales. It lies 4 km north of the town of Abergavenny and 1.5 miles west of the village of Llanvihangel Crucorney.
St Issui’s Church
Church
Photo: Ruth Sharville, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Issui, Partrishow, Powys, Wales, is a Grade I listed parish church dating from 1060. The existing building was mainly constructed in the 14th and 15th centuries and was sensitively restored in 1908–1909.
St Peter’s Church
Church
Photo: Ruth Sharville, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Peter, Llanwenarth, Monmouthshire is a parish church with reported origins in the 6/7th centuries. The current building dates from the early 14th century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llangenny and Llanbedr.
Llangenny
Hamlet
Photo: Ruth Sharville, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llangenny is a village in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Powys, Wales. It is in the lower reaches of the Grwyne Fawr. The Vale of Grwyney community consists of Glangrwyney, Llanbedr, and Llangenny.
Llanbedr
Village
Photo: pam fray, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llanbedr is a small village in the community of Vale of Grwyney, in the county of Powys, Wales, 2 miles northeast of Crickhowell. It lies above the river known as the Grwyne Fechan just above its confluence with the Grwyne Fawr in the southern reaches of the Black Mountains range.
Gaer
Locality
Photo: Jasperfforde, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gaer is the name of a hill in the Black Mountains of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Monmouthshire, south Wales. It lies at the southern end of the long ridge between the valley of the Grwyne Fawr and the Vale of Ewyas, one mile north of Bryn Arw and three miles northeast of Sugarloaf.
Sugar Loaf
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Llanfoist Fawr, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.86272° or 51° 51′ 46″ northLongitude
-3.05791° or 3° 3′ 29″ westElevation
1,955 feet (596 metres)Open location code
9C3RVW7R+3ROpenStreetMap ID
node 244018898OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=survey_pointOpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
2636560Wikidata ID
Q7634860
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Sugar Loaf” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sugar Loaf”
- Chinese: “糖麵包山”
- Dutch: “Sugar Loaf”
- Swedish: “Sugar Loaf”
- Welsh: “Mynydd Pen y Fâl”
- Welsh: “Mynydd Pen-y-fâl”
- Welsh: “Pen-y-fâl”
- Welsh: “Sugarloaf”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sugar Loaf”. Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.