Black Mixen

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Black Mixen
Radnorshire
Black Mixen moorland.jpg
Moorland on the summit of Black Mixen
Range: Cambrian Mountains
Summit: 2,133 feet SO182639
52°16’2"N, 3°12’0"W

Black Mixen is a hill in Radnorshire which may be accounted a subsidiary summit of Great Rhos, in the Radnor Forest, though it is certainly a distinctive hill of itself. Black Mixen lies to the east-north-east of Great Rhos, across the head of Harley Dingle, the steep, forbidden valley used as a shooting range and testing ground for ammunition.

The summit of Black Mixen is marked with a cairn, and is next to a radio transmitter and its building.[1]

To the east of Black Mixen is Bache Hill. To the south lie the Black Mountains. Great Rhos raises its great head in a broad, flat plateau to the west.

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References

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