Summit Register

3,000 ft mountain · Conwy, Gwynedd, Wales

Glyder Fawr

1,000.9 m

3,284 ftDrop 642 mSH 642 579

Finder: 6 Furths in Wales

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmGlyder Fawr1,000.9Y Garn946Tryfan917.5Elidir Fawr924Snowdon – Yr Wyddfa1,085
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmGlyder Fawr1,000.9Y Garn946Tryfan917.5
Looking north, 147 km wide, heights ×34 (method).

Glyder Fawr is a 3,000 ft mountain of 1,000.9 m in Conwy, Gwynedd. Only two of the register's Wales hills are higher.

It is the 4th highest Hewitt. It counts towards four lists: Hewitts, Nuttalls, Furths and Marilyns. Its nearest higher summit, Crib y Ddysgl (1,065.3 m, 4.2 km south-west), is a listed top not profiled here. The highest point is recorded as rock tor, not a cairn.

To scale

Summit1,000.9 mKey col359 mdrop 642 msea level
Key col SH 647 556, 2.4 km south of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

1,000.9 m3rd highest of 56 in Wales

Drop

642 m91st of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

4.2 km410th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Y Garn2.0 km north-west
    946 m
  2. 2
    Tryfan2.6 km north-east
    917.5 m
  3. 3
    Elidir Fawr4.5 km north-west
    924 m
  4. 4
    Snowdon – Yr Wyddfa4.8 km south-west
    1,085 m
1234Y GarnTryfanElidir FawrSnowdonN2 km

Lists

  • 4th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 3rd highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here
  • 4th highest of the 15 Furths profiled here
  • 111th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Crib y Ddysgl, 1,065.3 m, 4.2 km south-west
Region
30B: Snowdonia
OS map
115
Summit
Rock tor
DoBIH no.
1967
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Glyder Fawr

Data: DoBIH v18.6, CC BY 4.0 (method). What prominence (drop) means, with real figures