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| Name: | Pen Coed Rhedyn |
| Hill number: | 15899 |
| Height: | 81m / 266ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2298 Wentwood |
| RHB Section: | 32C: Neath to Chepstow |
| County/UA: | Newport |
| Catchment: | Usk, Catchment Boundaries |
| Class: | Tump (0-99m) (Tu,0) |
| Grid ref: | ST363893 (est) |
| Drop: | 47m |
| Col: | 34m ST360896  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 171 (1:25k) 152 |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way. Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land.
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 21 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Faint path starts at ST 36019 89250. Turn right at ST 360059 89256, dip under a fallen tree, and trust that the path will eventually turn up and then back on itself.Path not as faint as anticipated. | Martin R | 11/11/2023 |
| Parked in housing estate to W. Up through woods near factory. Visited ground near buried water tank, top of buried water tank, and ground closer to masts. | PGCE | 07/11/2023 |
| From A48 roundabout. Just before factory gatrhouse take faint track on right following factory boundary before heading up hill. Not a fequented path very faint in parts | cjo | 09/04/2023 |
| Grassy field to E of copse; copse also possible . Nera mobile phone aerials. Grey days for a circuit of Newport Tumps. Ascended from E over grassy field; descended via faint and winding path in woods- which exits just before estate entrance lodge on A48 | Denise | 24/01/2022 |
| From lane to E up fields of pasture with sheep to the summit area. High point feels to be on fence line next to small covered water tank. Down SW through the forest arriving on the factory access road immediately opposite the large SPTS sign. | RichardM | 24/01/2022 |
| From minor road to the east. Easy walk across a couple of fields although there were some slightly frisky cattle with calves. | clivevilla | 15/08/2019 |
| From the A48 Ringland roundabout, along the factory access road, then up an ill-defined path to the right c. 10 metres before the entrance gates, which runs past the pylon, then south along the west side of the hill, east up the slope to the woodland edge and then north inside the wood to the highest natural point just inside the wood by the first of the two masts. | Mariana Trench | 15/12/2017 |
| From church. Couldn't find path by sec barrier. Too overgrown. | ngthack | 22/07/2017 |
| As others from factory road, once on ridge followed faint path that passed near orange marks on trees, which led to Comms tower. Mound near Comms tower is man made. | PeterD | 19/02/2017 |
| As per jonglew | arranc | 11/01/2017 |
| Pasture edge by comms mast, ST 36397 89348. Mound housing water tank 2ft higher but man made. From sw as others, path starts c30m from barrier | RHW | 16/10/2016 |
| Parked on Howe Circle. Found path just prior to factory security barrier - not easy to spot as vegetation high this time of year. Up through woodland, sometimes following a track, often not. Broke out into field of barley and followed field bdy to mast. HP seemed to be a small mound immediately to E of the southmost of 3 comms masts. | jonglew | 23/06/2016 |
| Went up from factory road to west. Found no path and stumbled up through thick undergrowth to field edge and on to summit at mast. Stumbled down again by slightly different route equally overgrown. | Campbell Singer | 18/05/2016 |
| Parked at small church to east. Church has cut mark. Easy route with just a couple of gates. | Dusty | 28/02/2016 |
| A48 use factory road, just before security gates there is path on RHS which goes up to the ridge. HP close to mast and small reservoir. | Adrian | 18/10/2015 |
| Short climb from A48 through wood to ridge. | Ramblingpaul | 08/02/2015 |
| Easy access through fields from the East | Tony J | 05/11/2014 |
| DC11main | 24/06/2023 | |
| Matt | 01/05/2023 | |
| andrew brown | 07/12/2020 | |
| stevent0809 | 22/03/2015 |