Rhos Dirion
Rhos Dirion is a top of Waun Fach in the Black Mountains in south-eastern Wales. It is the highest point on the Rhos Dirion - Chwarel y Fan ridge. The summit is marked by a trig point and crowns an area of peat bog, heather and long grasses.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Twyn Tal-y-cefn and Twmpa.
Twmpa
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Twmpa or Lord Hereford's Knob is a mountain in south-east Wales, forming a part of the great northwest scarp of the Black Mountains. It lies 1.86 miles west of the border with England, and around 4.34 miles south of Hay-on-Wye.
Grwyne Fawr Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Martin Wilson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Grwyne Fawr Reservoir is located in the valley of the river Grwyne Fawr in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales. Completed in 1928, it has the capacity to hold 400,000,000 imperial gallons.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llanelieu and Felindre.
Llanelieu
Hamlet
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llanelieu is a small settlement and former civil parish in Powys, Wales on the northern edge of the Black Mountains within the Brecon Beacons National Park.
Felindre
Village
Felindre is a village in southern Powys. The village is a part of the Gwernyfed community which also includes Three Cocks and Glasbury, and is in the UK parliamentary constituency of Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe.
Capel-y-ffin
Hamlet
Photo: JamesWoolley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Capel-y-ffin is a hamlet near the English-Welsh border, a couple of miles north of Llanthony in Powys, Wales. It lies within the Black Mountains and within the Brecon Beacons National Park. The nearest town is Hay-on-Wye, some 8 miles to the northwest.
Rhos Dirion
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,339 feet
- Description: hill (713.4m) in Powys
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Vale of Grwyney, Powys, Mid Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.99348° or 51° 59′ 37″ northLongitude
-3.14985° or 3° 8′ 59″ westElevation
2,339 feet (713 metres)Open location code
9C3RXVV2+93OpenStreetMap ID
node 452613342OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=survey_pointOpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
12623203Wikidata ID
Q7321472
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Rhos Dirion” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Rhos Dirion”
- Welsh: “Rhos Dirion”
Localities in the Area
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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 “Rhos Dirion”. Photo: Gabby77, Public domain.