Picws Du
Picws Du is the second highest peak of the Carmarthen Fans in the Carmarthenshire section of the Black Mountain in the west of the Brecon Beacons National Park in south Wales.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dara Jasumani, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Llyn y Fan Fach and Fan Brycheiniog.
Llyn y Fan Fach
Reservoir
Photo: SNappa2006, CC BY 2.0.
Llyn y Fan Fach is a lake of approximately 10 hectares on the northern margin of the Black Mountain in Carmarthenshire, South Wales and lying within the Brecon Beacons National Park.
Fan Brycheiniog
Peak
Photo: Gabby77, Public domain.
Fan Brycheiniog is the highest peak at a height of 802.5 metres in the Black Mountain region of the Brecon Beacons National Park in southern Wales. There is a trig point at the peak and on the edge of the escarpment, and nearby, a stone shelter with an inner seat.
Llyn y Fan Fawr
Lake
Photo: Blisco, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Llyn y Fan Fawr is a natural lake in the county of Powys, Wales. It lies at the foot of Fan Brycheiniog, the highest peak of the Black Mountain range within the Brecon Beacons National Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Penwyllt and Pen y Cae.
Penwyllt
Hamlet
Photo: Toby Speight, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Penwyllt is a hamlet located in the upper Swansea Valley in Powys, Wales, lying within the Brecon Beacons National Park. A former quarrying village, quicklime and silica brick production centre, its fortunes rose and fell as a result of the Industrial Revolution in South Wales. Penwyllt is situated 4½ miles southeast of Picws Du.
Pen y Cae
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pen-y-cae is a village in Powys, Wales in the Brecon Beacons National Park between Abercraf and Craig-y-Nos Castle, in the community of Tawe-Uchaf. The village is mostly a linear settlement along the A4067 which runs approximately parallel to the River Tawe.
Gwynfe
Village
Photo: Nigel Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gwynfe or Capel Gwynfe is a small village inside the portion of Brecon Beacons National Park that is in Carmarthenshire, a county of southwestern Wales. Gwynfe is situated 6 miles west of Picws Du.
Picws Du
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,457 feet
- Description: mountain (749.1m) in Carmarthenshire
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire, South Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.88262° or 51° 52′ 57″ northLongitude
-3.72783° or 3° 43′ 40″ westElevation
2,457 feet (749 metres)Open location code
9C3RV7MC+2VOpenStreetMap ID
node 3111770565OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=cairnOpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
12609766Wikidata ID
Q7191256
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Picws Du” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Picws Du”
- Dutch: “Picws Du”
- Irish: “Bannau Sir Gaer - Picws Du”
- Ladin: “Picws Du”
- Welsh: “Picws Du”
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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 “Picws Du”. Photo: Dara Jasumani, CC BY-SA 2.0.