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|county=Cardiganshire
|county=Cardiganshire
|range=Cambrian Mountains
|range=Cambrian Mountains
|picture=Northwest approach to Pumlumon Fach - geograph.org.uk - 656625.jpg
|picture caption=Northwest approach to Pumlumon Fach
|height=2,192 feet
|height=2,192 feet
|os grid ref=SN789869
|os grid ref=SN789869

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Pumlumon Fach
Cardiganshire

Northwest approach to Pumlumon Fach
Range: Cambrian Mountains
Summit: 2,192 feet SN789869

Pumlumon Fach is a subsidiary top of Plynlimon on its high massif, a part of the Cambrian Mountains. Pumlumon Fach (which name means “Little Plynlimon”) rises to 2,192 feet in Cardiganshire. The summit is on small ridge heading north-west from the summit of Plynlimon itself (Pen Pumlumon Fawr).

The summit ogf Pumlumon Fach is marked by small cairn, and overlooks the Nant-y-moch Reservoir to the north and Llyn Llygad Rheidiol to the east.

The views from the top also include the smaller summits of Drosgol (1,804 feet) and Banc Llechwedd-mawr (1,837 feet) and Cwm Hyddgen, a hide-out of Owain Glyndŵr and his army in those troubled times.[1]

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References

  1. Nuttall, John & Anne (1999). The Mountains of England & Wales - Volume 1: Wales (2nd edition ed.). Milnthorpe, Westmorland: Cicerone. ISBN 1-85284-304-7.