Cefn yr Ystrad
Cefn yr Ystrad is a mountain in the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales. It is an outlier of the Central Beacons group. The broad northeast - southwest aligned ridge reaches an elevation of 619 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gabby77, Public domain.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,024 feet
- Description: mountain (619m) in Powys
- Also known as: “Cefn Yr Ystrad”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dolygaer railway station and Pontsticill railway station.
Dolygaer railway station
Railway station
Photo: Timothy Titus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dolygaer railway station was a station serving the hamlet of Dol-y-gaer and the area adjacent to Pen-twyn Reservoir in Powys, Wales.
Pontsticill railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pontsticill railway station is an intermediate station on the Brecon Mountain Railway at Pontsticill, in the historic Welsh county of Brecknockshire, now Merthyr Tydfil County Borough.
Mynydd Llangynidr
Peak
Photo: Alan Bowring, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mynydd Llangynidr is a mountain in the Brecon Beacons National Park largely in the county of Powys, south Wales. Its southern slopes extend into the northernmost parts of the county borough of Blaenau Gwent.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Trefil and Pontsticill.
Trefil
Hamlet
Photo: Lesbardd, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Trefil is a small village in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, south Wales. It lies at the top of the Sirhowy Valley, near to Brecon Beacons National Park.
Pontsticill
Village
Photo: Alan Hughes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pontsticill is a village within the County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. It lies within the valley of the Taf Fechan on the southern edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park.
Tafarnaubach
Hamlet
Photo: Robin Drayton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tafarnaubach is a village on the Sirhowy River in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, in south-east Wales. Located within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire, it lies about two miles west of Tredegar town centre.
Cefn yr Ystrad
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Llangynidr, Powys, Mid Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.81475° or 51° 48′ 53″ northLongitude
-3.32594° or 3° 19′ 33″ westElevation
2,024 feet (617 metres)Open location code
9C3RRM7F+WJOpenStreetMap ID
node 2006182745OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Cefn yr Ystrad” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Cefn yr Ystrad”
- Irish: “Cefn yr Ystrad”
- Ladin: “Cefn yr Ystrad”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cefn yr Ystrad”
- Welsh: “Cefn yr Ystrad”
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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 “Cefn yr Ystrad”. Photo: Gabby77, Public domain.