Summit Register

Hewitt · Gwynedd, Wales

Y Garn

629 m

2,064 ftDrop 316.8 mSH 702 230

Finder: 31 Hewitts in Gwynedd

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmY Garn629Y Llethr755.1Rhinog Fach711.6Rhinog Fawr721Rhobell Fawr734
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmY Garn629Y Llethr755.1Rhinog Fach711.6
Looking north, 2615 km wide, heights ×811 (method).

Y Garn is a Hewitt of 629 m in Gwynedd. All four of its nearest neighbours are higher, up to Y Llethr at 755.1 m.

It sits below Y Llethr, only 5.0 km to the north-west and 126.1 m higher. On the Hewitts height ladder it sits between Starling Dodd (633 m) and Yewbarrow (628.7 m). Its nearest higher summit, Diffwys (750.4 m, 4.2 km west), is a listed top not profiled here.

To scale

Summit629 mKey col312.2 mdrop 316.8 msea level
Key col SH 6805 2429, 2.5 km north-west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

629 m49th highest of 56 in Wales

Drop

316.8 m397th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

4.2 km410th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Y Llethr5.0 km north-west
    755.1 m
  2. 2
    Rhinog Fach5.5 km north-west
    711.6 m
  3. 3
    Rhinog Fawr7.5 km north-west
    721 m
  4. 4
    Rhobell Fawr8.8 km east
    734 m
1234Y LlethrRhinog FachRhinog FawrRhobell FawrN5 km

Lists

  • 257th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 179th highest of the 193 Nuttalls profiled here
  • 808th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Diffwys, 750.4 m, 4.2 km west
Region
30D: Barmouth to Betws-y-Coed and Bala
OS map
124
Summit
Cairn
DoBIH no.
2073
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Y Garn

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