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Name: | Great Creigiau |
Hill number: | 2180 |
Height: | 646m / 2119ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2178 Great Rhos |
RHB Section: | 31B: Welshpool to Hay-on-Wye |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Central Wales - Radnor Forest |
County/UA: | Powys |
Catchment: | Wye |
Class: | Buxton & Lewis, Bridge, Deleted Nuttall (BL,Bg,xN) |
Grid ref: | SO 19802 63644 |
Summit feature: | no feature: deep heather |
Drop: | 12m |
Col: | 634m SO199638 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 148 (1:25k) 200E |
Survey: | Abney level |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 122 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Over the fence onto awful tussocky ground and deep heather for a quick bag. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 07/02/2024 |
First top on a solo 15 mile walk from New Radnor to Kington via Radnor Forest, in glorious autumn weather. Approached using the Ystol Bach bridleway, then the track to Black Mixen. Access is okay despite the signs, no firing today, but the heather is awful to cross. Made it as near to the top as I could be bothered, then back the same way. This is really just a little itch scratched, the worst summit on this lovely range. Onwards to Black Mixen. | thesweetcheat | 08/10/2022 |
Pretty sure I've been to this top before. Anyway, done it now. | Dusty | 07/09/2022 |
As clivevilla: Parked in forest car park at end of minor road north from New Radnor at 205618. Followed clear path round the edge of the forest above a deep valley (danger area) then turned left and left again to summit which is in fairly thick pathless heather. Summit is now in a Danger Area, but no activity when I was there on a Sunday afternoon. | PGCE | 27/03/2022 |
My last Welsh Buxton Lewis. As rough going as everyone says! | BaggerGutt | 05/03/2022 |
This summit's a nightmare! It's covered in tufts of heather and overgrowth that completely hide the ground so it's impossible to know how far down each step's going to go. It's ankle-breaking terrain, slow, hard work, and to be honest, not worth it. The other peaks are great, bag them instead! | SootAndShale | 25/04/2021 |
If the Devil made hummocks...horrible!!! | Smog | 18/09/2020 |
4/8 A splendid round trip of the Great Rhos to bag 3 Deweys. From New Radnor up bridleway, with quick hop over the fence (SO 214 619) and up the field to Knowle Hill, back down and up FP through wood to barns, then direct up to the Whimble (splendid summit), back down and revisited Bache Hill and the transmitter at Black Mixen, visiting the deleted Nuttall, Great Creigau, en route. Then a significant descent to bag my second Dewey, Fron-wen (disappointing - just a rise in a forest road) and on to revisit Marilyn Great Rhos, before a long trek over wild moors to my final Dewey, Nyth-grug, and a lengthy road walk back to New Radnor. All in all a great walk with good views. 25km with 900m ascent in 7 hours. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 24/07/2020 |
En route to Bache Hill from Black Mixen. Heather & Bilberry, HP about 25m S of a pine tree. | DanMaisieBex | 29/10/2019 |
TD & C | This Dog | 03/08/2019 |
A pig of a top to get to. Holey heathery and indistinct. | stig_nest | 24/09/2018 |
Knowle Hill - Whimble - Bache Hill - Great Creigiau - Black Mixen - Great Rhos. Basically the Nuttalls route with occasional diversions to take in the three bonus summits. Mainly cloudy and breezy but dry. Fortunately it's not far from the gate in the fence line to the summit of Great Creigiau as it's not good walking. | Herbert Anchovy | 29/07/2017 |
flat top not clear highest point tramped about to make sure | underhill | 04/09/2016 |
300m from path across rough heather. | PeteF | 29/08/2016 |
With Jenx from New Radnor. Clockwise circuit of all the tops on a decent weather day, followed a damp start. | nordicstar | 11/07/2016 |
From New Radnor on a reverse direction of Nuttall's 11.4 walk. Took in 6 hills, this being the third. | jonglew | 16/06/2016 |
Slight detour from Nuttall's route for Black Mixen involving a yomp across a heather moor. | Ramblingpaul | 12/05/2016 |
Parked in forest car park at end of minor road north from New Radnor at 205618. Followed clear path round the edge of the forest above a deep valley (danger area) then turned left and left again to summit which is in fairly thick pathless heather. | clivevilla | 27/02/2016 |
Nuttall Walk 11.4: Wimble - Bache Hill - Great Creigau - Black Mixen - Great Rhos | ronaldo333 | 23/01/2016 |
5/7 Fifth of great snowy day's walking (Carneddau South Top/Carneddau South West Top/Whimble/Bache Hill/Great Creigau/Black Mixen/Great Rhos) | Fergalh | 22/11/2015 |
Forest car park above New Radnor at 205618 N. up bridleway alongside forest & E. side of Ystol Bach Brook to metal gate below col Made way up to col & then through heather & tussock grass to unmarked summit. Plenty of cowberries growing on the summit. (S) | gerrybowes | 28/09/2015 |
Only a 200 metre detour from the path to Black Mixen, but an absolute horror. Heather, and bog with hidden water filled holes - take it slowly and carefully. Plus point was profusion of large ripe bilberries! | Crib Goch | 12/08/2015 |
From New Radnor - Mutton Dingle - Whimble - Bache Hill - Great Creigau - Black Mixen - Great Rhos. | david230201 | 13/08/2014 |
With Sam | simon and co | 03/07/2014 |
A short, but annoying, detour on way from Black Mixen to Bache Hill. Have to climb a fence and wade though thick heather, with no sign of path, to a flat and uninteresting top. If it hadn't been a hill on this site I wouldn't have bothered! At least virtually no ascent required. Definitely would never do it again. | Hillsidenick | 07/08/2013 |
Rough trek through deep heather. | bolton | 25/07/2012 |
Third of an anticlockwise circuit from New Radnor and a deviation from the route to Black Mixen. Horrible lumpy heather and hard work for little reward. | milimana | 25/02/2012 |
with Devon | Stuart Hyde | 09/08/2011 |
very heathery!! | JohnStoneham | 23/07/2011 |
Very glad this one was the last of the day, hard going through thick heather. 4th of 4 today. | heavyhorses | 17/02/2011 |
Little effort required on detour before Black Mixen on dry clear day with occasional sunshine. | Dugswell2 | 17/10/2009 |
Part of a circular walk from New Radnor, taking in Bache Hill, Black Mixen and Great Rhos, before a nice pint in the New Radnor Arms. | boglin | 18/05/2009 |
Part of a circular walk from New Radnor, taking in Bache Hill, Black Mixen and Great Rhos, before a nice pint in the New Radnor Arms. | janey.m | 18/05/2009 |
Bagged with Sarah. Cracking views of the scarred hillside surrounding the path, due to the ammunition testing. Nice weather and good paths early on. | wee mac | 30/03/2008 |
Unmarked point amidst area of trackless deep heather | webmaster | 18/11/2005 |
A quick hop over the fence and within a few minutes this top was reached. | garyhoney | 16/02/2002 |
Start ~ 213607, New Radnor. Took the track by Haines Mill and then climbed up on to the fell above the Three Riggles. Contined over pathless heather until we found the trigg point of Great Rhos. Then took track into woods and swung E to pass the head of Harley Dingle to emerge onto a path to Black Mixen. Continued to Great Creigiau and Bache Hill before following a track down through the woods to return to New Radnor. With Chris Wilkes. | steve hudson | 10/01/1996 |
A sunny friday in November -running round of the 4x 2000ers of the Radnor Forest and then time to also do Drygan Fawr, Gorllwyn and Pen y Garn then to Bryn Hafod hut in Berwyns for a reunion meet of the CB11 India expedition, earlier that summer. | Chris Pearson | 05/11/1993 |
G | Idris | 01/08/1991 |
Solo | JohnIvor | 15/04/1990 |
Rough heather clad outlier, hard end to the day but even harder climb direct from Whimble | Rhayader_wander | 25/03/1990 |
petey | 01/01/1990 | |
Date not known - some time in the 1980s when ticking Terry Marsh 600m summits. | summitsup | 01/06/1988 |
From New Radnor, a round of Whimble, Bache Hill Great Craigiau, Black Mixen, Great Rhos with D. | PeterD | 10/08/1985 |
From Black Mixen. More trackless heather with snow cover in gullies to top 12.00. | arranc | 24/03/1985 |
rickeeling | 11/11/2023 | |
ChrisShaw1993 | 28/08/2023 | |
Rambling Ray | 19/06/2023 | |
tomandivy | 06/09/2022 | |
olddustyrunner | 03/07/2022 |