Mynydd Marchywel
Mynydd Marchywel is a 418-metre high hill in the Neath Port Talbot area in South Wales. Its summit is marked both by a cairn and a trig point. The larger part of the hill is cloaked in modern forestry through which numerous streams fall away westward to the River Tawe, eastward to the River Dulais and southward into the Clydach, the latter two being tributaries of the River Neath.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,371 feet
- Description: hill (418m) in Neath Port Talbot County Borough
- Also known as: “Mynydd March-Hywell”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cefn Coed Colliery Museum.
Cefn Coed Colliery Museum
Museum
Photo: Cedwyn Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cefn Coed Colliery Museum is a former coal mine, now operating as a museum. It is located at Crynant near Neath in the South Wales Valleys.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Crynant and Rhos.
Crynant
Village
Photo: Cedwyn Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crynant is a village and community in the Dulais Valley in Wales. It lies 7¾ miles north-east from the town of Neath in Neath Port Talbot, situated between the mountains of Mynydd Marchywel to the west, Hirfynydd to the east and Mynydd y Drum to the north.
Rhos
Village
Rhos is a village in the Swansea Valley, located outside of Pontardawe, in Neath Port Talbot county borough, South Wales, in the community of Cilybebyll.
Alltwen
Village
Alltwen is a village in the Swansea Valley in Wales. Alltwen forms part of the community of Cilybebyll and is administered separately from adjoining Pontardawe on the opposite bank of the River Tawe.
Mynydd Marchywel
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Cilybebyll, Neath Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.71956° or 51° 43′ 10″ northLongitude
-3.78583° or 3° 47′ 9″ westElevation
1,371 feet (418 metres)Open location code
9C3RP697+RMOpenStreetMap ID
node 272330546OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Mynydd Marchywel” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Mynydd Marchywel”
- Welsh: “Mynydd Marchywel”
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Highlights include Plas Cilybebyll and Coed y Wigfa.
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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 “Mynydd Marchywel”. Photo: Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0.