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Name: | Y Foel |
Hill number: | 7558 |
Height: | 522m / 1713ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2087 Cadair Berwyn |
RHB Section: | 30E: Bala to Welshpool |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | The Berwyns |
County/UA: | Wrexham |
Catchment: | Dee (Flint) |
Class: | Subdodd (s5) |
Grid ref: | SJ 18794 39104 |
Summit feature: | ground within 3m of trig point |
Drop: | 24m |
Col: | 498m SJ182394 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 125 (1:25k) 255 |
Observations: | cairn on remains of Biddulph Tower 20m E at SJ 18816 39105 is 2-3m higher but this is man-made ground |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 71 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
3/4 On Llangollen Round, Moel Fferna (revisit) then Vivod mountain, Y Foel, Craig y Dduallt then down to finish over the viaduct. Another cracking sunny day. | nickywood1 | 02/10/2022 |
Pen Tan-y-graig, Vivod Mountain, Y Foel | keithouk | 08/05/2022 |
Y Foel > Vivod Mountain from GR: SJ 20255 39377 | ronaldo333 | 30/04/2022 |
Y Foel > Vivod Mountain from GR: SJ 20255 39377 | Hippster | 30/04/2022 |
solo * with Vivod Mountain | Fabioski | 09/04/2022 |
Detour off the Llangollen Round waymarked route. Narrow but good path up and down through rough heather. | ijpowell | 28/03/2022 |
After Vivod. Visited summit, trig and cairn. | PGCE | 05/02/2022 |
with trig | Denise | 05/01/2022 |
From Vivod mountain on paths through the heather. Good weather and views. Distant hill fields to the S white with snow. | RichardM | 05/01/2022 |
Vivod Mountain from the minor road west of the junction at 193 386. WSW along road then up track to summit. Back on track, left at junction to just to the west of the top of Y Foel, then straight up to the trig. 8.4km with 200m ascent. Just under 2 hours out and back. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 11/08/2021 |
from finger farm | underhill | 27/08/2020 |
Parked to the East in small pull-in for Y Foel and Vivod Mountain SJ202393. | David Evans | 18/11/2019 |
On the way to Vivod Mountain | Colin Crawford | 01/04/2019 |
From Finger Farm then on to Vivod- nice outcrop summit | Mark Sims | 02/05/2018 |
Llangollen - Pengwern Farm - Allt Y Badi - Finger Farm - Y Foel (Biddulph Tower & Trig - Edge of Access Land near Nant Dramvrys Wood - Vivod Mountain - Wilderness - Ffynnon las (along North Berwyn Way) - Llangollen (A very cold day with hazy blue sky). | briandavies | 24/02/2018 |
F/p from near Finger Farm. Nice summit area. Intended going to Vivod but was fed up of getting buffeted by wind. | Aye Jimmy | 20/02/2018 |
Pleasant walk in the rain from the road by finger farm. Easy ascent but a little boggy and heathery at the top - hard to establish a good path, but there are a few choices. Nice raised perch for the summit with a tidy little trig point. Great view down into the Ceiriog valley. | tumpawumpa | 02/01/2018 |
From Finger Farm | Alan Caine | 12/08/2017 |
A hill I have visited many times but always looks amazing when the heather is in bloom. | greboicus | 29/07/2017 |
1/9(Y Foel/Vivoid Mountain/Moel Ferna/Cerrig Coediog/Crehigu'r Hyrddod/Pen Tan-y-Graig/Foel Wylfa/Cefn Hir-Fynydd/Mynydd-y-Briw) | Fergalh | 21/07/2017 |
After Vivod | jimbloomer | 19/04/2017 |
Early morning sunshine replaced by thick fog and ice when we wandered up here. No views today. | Walker Dan | 21/01/2017 |
Parked at the footpath just after finger farm (great name) and headed up path and then across the heather to the trigpoint, lovely night. | thejackrustles | 05/08/2016 |
From Vivod, on tracks through heather, some slashed areas for grouse and rough heather stepping to trig and top. Descent over more high heather, BWF, to field to west to find gate into second field, herd of frisky cattle, to upward track, BWF and car. | arranc | 26/07/2016 |
9 miles circular walk from Llangollen on pleasant mostly sunny day-Y Foel(via Allt y Badi track) and Vivod Mountain returning by North Berwyn Way.Enjoyable.With Oscar and Catman. | rosiebridge | 15/05/2016 |
With Bridget and Catman. | oscarrosie | 15/05/2016 |
With Bridget and Oscar. | catman | 15/05/2016 |
Parked by road a little east and went up the hedge line then west to top. | clivevilla | 24/02/2016 |
Approached from LLangollen via Allt Y Badi track. Fine weather with good panoramic views of Cerriog valley, Shropshire Hills, Trevor rocks/Ruabon Mountain, Horseshoe pass, Llantisilio Mountain and the Berwyn Ridge. Returned via North Berwyn Way and then followed a bridle way back into Llangollen. A 9 mile walk which took about 4:30 hours. Recommended. | Welshmanwalking | 18/04/2015 |
One of the better tops in the area. Approached from the south having parked at 170369 | JohnStoneham | 15/06/2014 |
Parked SJ 18667 38439 - awful pot holed road. Better to park eastward by the Y junction. Fine walk on track then back to summit. | destaylor | 28/03/2014 |
From Vivod Mountain, difficult walk through heather towards end. | Wheelsy | 22/02/2014 |
I climbed this hill by detouring off North Berwyn way en-route to Llangollen. It has a trig point and the ruins of a tower named the Biddulph tower. I followed a footpath veered off onto a track and then took a direct line to the summit. The Llangollen round passes close by too. Lovely lighting on the day i visited. | Dazingdale | 31/10/2013 |
Parked near Plas Newydd. Allt y Badi track. Deep snow for most of the way. The poor farmers have lost a lot of lambs and the survivors looked thoroughly miserable in the cold and wet with very little to eat. Return along the North Berwyn Way. With Mark. | Saggers | 07/04/2013 |
Missed out this doing the Llangollen Round last year. Returned to bag via finger farm junction. Nice top as it happens. | simon and co | 04/01/2013 |
20 minute walk - great views from top | mikependergast | 03/08/2012 |
a loop incl vivod mt. from finger farm. summit is a fairly well raised perch, route to vivod best along fence to north. | stig_nest | 16/05/2012 |
Parked on verge at 203394 but got a friendly telling off from a farmer on the way back down as he had problems swinging a tractor and trailer in to the field ! | heavyhorses | 17/04/2012 |
Straight up good path from East. Space to park at the end of ROW. Remains of tower highest point. | PeteF | 14/02/2012 |
On way back off Vivod | Martin R | 26/09/2010 |
From Llangollen. | Richard Gunn | 06/09/2010 |
13.5 mile circular bagging Y Foel, Vivod Mountain and Moel Fferna, thought pathless terrain would be a problem but surprisingly a lot more paths exist then they mark on the map. | DanTrig | 31/07/2010 |
First light, first summit on Leventon's Line, a 25 summit 8-trig east-west crossing of Wales from Llangollen to Barmouth, 56 miles, 15h23m | RHW | 26/04/2008 |
From Llangollen | welshe | 24/01/1993 |
May 1990 - on Llangollen to Barmouth trip. | summitsup | blank |
asbown | 25/09/2023 | |
paulsross | 09/01/2022 | |
oldbagger27 | 26/07/2019 | |
Hetty | 28/04/2019 | |
TREBORK | 08/02/2019 |