Black Mountain South Top
Black Mountain South Top is a top of Black Mountain in the Black Mountains range that spreads across parts of Powys and Monmouthshire in southeast Wales.Places of Interest
Highlights include Llanthony Abbey and Chwarel y Fan.
Llanthony Abbey
Ruins
Llanthony Abbey is a former Anglican monastic institution founded in 1869 by Joseph Leycester Lyne, in the Welsh village of Capel-y-ffin, a few miles from the medieval Llanthony Priory.
Chwarel y Fan
Peak
Black Mountain
Peak
The Black Mountain is a hill in the Black Mountains. It is the only Marilyn to fall exactly on the Welsh–English border, and it straddles Powys and Herefordshire. Its parent peak, Waun Fach, lies to the west.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Capel-y-ffin and Craswall.
Capel-y-ffin
Hamlet
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.
Craswall
Village
Craswall is a village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. It lies in the far west of the county, in the foothills of the Black Mountains, close to the border with Wales.
Llanthony
Village
Llanthony is a village in the community of Crucorney on the northern edge of Monmouthshire, South East Wales, United Kingdom.
Black Mountain South Top
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,090 feet
- Description: hill (637.4m) on the boundary of Herefordshire, in England, and Powys, in Wales, UK
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Llanigon, Powys, Mid Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.98403° or 51° 59′ 3″ north
Longitude
-3.06851° or 3° 4′ 7″ west
Elevation
2,090 feet (637 metres)
Open location code
9C3RXWMJ+JH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Black Mountain South Top” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Black Mountain South Top”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بلاك سوث توپ”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Black Mountain South Top”
- Welsh: “Mynydd Du (copa deheuol)”
- Welsh: “Mynydd Du (Sir Gaerfyrddin) (copa deheuol)”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Vision Farm and Ty-Shores, Capel-Y-Ffin.
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