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Hewitt · Powys, Wales

Waun Fach

811 m

2,661 ftDrop 622 mSO 215 299

Finder: 11 Hewitts in Powys

sea level3,000 ft · Munro height2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmWaun Fach811Mynydd Troed609Black Mountain703.6Waun Rydd769.2Cefn yr Ystrad617.3
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmWaun Fach811Mynydd Troed609Black Mountain703.6
Looking north, 6019 km wide, heights ×1812 (method).

Waun Fach is a Hewitt of 811 m in Powys. Its drop of 622 m is 77% of its height: the col linking it to higher ground is only 189.1 m above sea level.

It overtops all four of its nearest neighbours; the tallest of them, Waun Rydd, reaches 769.2 m. It stands 202 m above its nearest neighbour, Mynydd Troed, 5.0 km to the west. Of the register hills in Powys, only Pen y Fan and Cadair Berwyn stand higher.

To scale

Summit811 mKey col189.1 mdrop 622 msea level
Key col SO 1120 2604, 11.0 km west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

811 m14th highest of 56 in Wales

Drop

622 m101st of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

22.0 km59th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Mynydd Troed5.0 km west
    609 m
  2. 2
    Black Mountain6.7 km north-east
    703.6 m
  3. 3
    Waun Rydd17.9 km south-west
    769.2 m
  4. 4
    Cefn yr Ystrad20.7 km south-west
    617.3 m
1234Mynydd TroedBlack MountainWaun RyddCefn yr YstradN10 km

Lists

  • 56th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 44th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here
  • 381st highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Pen y Fan, 886 m, 22.0 km south-west
Region
32A: Llandovery to Monmouth
OS map
161
DoBIH no.
2229
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Waun Fach

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