Pen y Garn
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Pen y Garn | |||
Cardiganshire | |||
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View from the summit toward Plynlimon Fawr | |||
Range: | Cambrian Mountains | ||
Summit: | 2,001 feet SN862584 |
Pen y Garn is one of the highest mountains in the Cambrian Mountains, standing at 2,001 feet above sea level.
Pen y Garn tops a high plateau situated on which is the controversial Cefn Coch wind farm. The summit contains a very large shelter cairn hollowed out from the remains of an ancient burial cairn. The summit also has a trig point.
The wind turbines are very near the summit.
To the north though the whole Plynlimon range can be seen, including the summits of Y Garn, Plynlimon, Pen Pumlumon Llygad-bychan and Pen Pumlumon Arwystli. To the west is Aberystwyth and Drygarn Fawr to the south .[1]
References
- ↑ Nuttall, John & Anne (1999). The Mountains of England & Wales - Volume 1: Wales (2nd edition ed.). Milnthorpe, Westmorland: Cicerone. ISBN 1-85284-304-7.