Summit Register

Hewitt · Powys, Wales

Great Rhos

660 m

2,165 ftDrop 379 mSO 182 638

Finder: 11 Hewitts in Powys

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmGreat Rhos660Black Mountain703.6Drygarn Fawr644Waun Fach811Mynydd Troed609
sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmGreat Rhos660Black Mountain703.6Drygarn Fawr644
Looking north, 10190 km wide, heights ×2953 (method).

Great Rhos is a Hewitt of 660 m in Powys. It is also on the county tops list, as the highest point of its historic county.

Its closest neighbour in this register, Black Mountain, is 29.4 km away. It counts towards four lists: Hewitts, Nuttalls, Marilyns and county tops. It shares its height of 660 m with Whiteless Pike. On the Hewitts height ladder it sits between Knockowen (660.3 m) and Whiteless Pike (660 m). Its nearest higher summit, Hay Bluff (677 m, 28.0 km south), is a listed top not profiled here. The summit is marked by a trig point.

To scale

Summit660 mKey col281.3 mdrop 379 msea level
Key col SO 1777 7180, 8.0 km north of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

660 m46th highest of 56 in Wales

Drop

379 m318th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

28.0 km45th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Black Mountain29.4 km south
    703.6 m
  2. 2
    Drygarn Fawr32.3 km west
    644 m
  3. 3
    Waun Fach34.1 km south
    811 m
  4. 4
    Mynydd Troed34.7 km south
    609 m
1234Black MountainDrygarn FawrWaun FachMynydd TroedN10 km

Lists

  • 220th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 161st highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here
  • 747th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here
  • 45th highest of the 51 County tops profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Hay Bluff, 677 m, 28.0 km south
Region
31B: Welshpool to Hay-on-Wye
OS map
148
Summit
Trig point
DoBIH no.
2178
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Great Rhos

Data: DoBIH v18.6, CC BY 4.0 (method). The most isolated hills in Britain and Ireland