Brecon Beacons
The Brecon Beacons are a mountain range in Wales. The range includes South Wales's highest mountain, Pen y Fan, its twin summit Corn Du, and Craig Gwaun Taf, which are the three highest peaks in the range.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 2,762 feet
- Description: mountain range in Wales
- Also known as: “Bannau Brycheiniog”, “Brecknock Beacons”, and “Central Beacons”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Corn Du and Pen y Fan.
Corn Du
Peak
Photo: Andy Dingley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Corn Du is a summit of the twin topped Pen y Fan and the second highest peak in South Wales at 871.5 m, situated in the Brecon Beacons National Park. It is situated to the south-west of Pen y Fan at a distance of approximately 550 m from it, and is just 13 m lower than Pen y Fan itself.
Pen y Fan
Peak
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Pen y Fan is the highest peak in South Wales, situated in Brecon Beacons National Park. At 886 metres above sea-level, it is also the highest British peak south of Cadair Idris in Snowdonia.
Llyn Cwm Llwch
Lake
Photo: Richard Higgs, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llyn Cwm Llwch is a small lake or pool in the Brecon Beacons National Park in Powys, Wales. It is between 1 and 2 acres: much smaller than the two glacial lakes in the west of the Black Mountain: Llyn y Fan Fawr and Llyn y Fan Fach, and one of the few natural bodies of water in the park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Libanus and Llanspyddid.
Libanus
Village
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Libanus is a village in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom, and in the community of Glyn Tarell. Presumably, the name of the village derives from Mount Lebanon, also known as the Lebanon Mountains, the ancient name for which was Libanus, a common name for chapels in Wales. Libanus is situated 3 miles north of Brecon Beacons.
Llanspyddid
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llanspyddid is a small village just west of Brecon within the Brecon Beacons National Park. It lies within the valley of the River Usk in the community of Glyn Tarell in the county of Powys, Wales. Llanspyddid is situated 4½ miles north of Brecon Beacons.
Llanfrynach
Village
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Llanfrynach is a village and community in the county of Powys, Wales, and the historic county of Brecknockshire. The population of the community as taken at the 2011 census was 571. Llanfrynach is situated 5 miles northeast of Brecon Beacons.
Brecon Beacons
- Categories: mountain range, Site of Special Scientific Interest, and landform
- Location: Glyn Tarell, Powys, Mid Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Brecon Beacons” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Afrikaans: “Brecon Beacons”
- Basque: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Basque: “Brecon Beacons”
- Breton: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Breton: “Brecon Beacons”
- Catalan: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Catalan: “Brecon Beacons”
- Cebuano: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Cebuano: “Brecon Beacons”
- Chinese: “佈雷肯比肯斯”
- Chinese: “布雷肯比肯斯”
- Chinese: “布雷肯比肯斯國家公園”
- Czech: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Czech: “Brecon Beacons”
- Danish: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Danish: “Brecon Beacons”
- Dutch: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Dutch: “Brecon Beacons”
- Esperanto: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Esperanto: “Brecon Beacons”
- Estonian: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Estonian: “Brecon Beacons”
- French: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- French: “Brecon Beacons”
- Galician: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Galician: “Brecon Beacons”
- German: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- German: “Brecon Beacons”
- German: “Brecon-Beacons-Nationalpark”
- Hebrew: “ברקון ביקונס”
- Irish: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Irish: “Brecon Beacons”
- Italian: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Italian: “Brecon Beacons”
- Japanese: “ブレコン・ビーコンズ山地”
- Kazakh: “Брекон-Биконс ұлттық саябағы”
- Ladin: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Ladin: “Brecon Beacons”
- Latvian: “Brekonbīkonsi”
- Lithuanian: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Lithuanian: “Brecon Beacons”
- Lithuanian: “Brekono Bakenai”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brecon Beacons”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brecon Beacons”
- Norwegian: “Brecon Beacons”
- Polish: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Polish: “Brecon Beacons”
- Polish: “Park Narodowy Brecon Beacons”
- Portuguese: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Portuguese: “Brecon Beacons”
- Russian: “Брекон-Биконс”
- Slovak: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Slovak: “Brecon Beacons”
- Slovenian: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Slovenian: “Brecon Beacons”
- Spanish: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Spanish: “Brecon Beacons”
- Swedish: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Swedish: “Brecon Beacons”
- Thai: “เบรคอนบีคอนส์”
- Thai: “อุทยานแห่งชาติเบรคอน บีคอนส์”
- Turkish: “Brecon Beacons”
- Ukrainian: “Брекон-Біконс”
- Venetian: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Venetian: “Brecon Beacons”
- Welsh: “Bannau Brycheiniog”
- Western Panjabi: “بریکن بیکنز”
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