Great Rhos

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Great Rhos
Radnorshire
Great Rhos.jpg
Great Rhos summit trig point
Range: Cambrian Mountains
Summit: 2,166 feet SO18226390

Great Rhos is a mountain in Radnorshire; the highest point of that county. It is within the Radnor Forest, not in woodland (the Forest was such in the mediæval sense of a game reserve, though wooded on lower slopes).

Great Rhos rises as a great mass of rock in the forest, its top a vast, flat plateau of boggy heather moorland.

Cwm Merwys on the N slope

The slopes drop away steeply on each side of the broad plateau. To the east it drops away into Harley Dingle, the steep, forbidden valley used as a shooting range and testing ground for ammunition and where the unwary trespasser may find the odd live shell underfoot.

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Harley Dingle

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