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Name:Gwastedyn Hill
Hill number:2189
Height:477m / 1565ft
RHB Section:31B: Welshpool to Hay-on-Wye
Nuttall/Wainwright area:Central Wales - Elan Valley
County/UA:Powys
Catchment:Wye
Class:Marilyn, Hump, Tump (400-499m), Clem
(Ma,Hu,Tu,4,Cm)
Grid ref:SN 98683 66150
Summit feature:cairn
Drop:242m
Col:235m  SN993686  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 136 147
(1:25k) 200W
Observations:higher than hill 2190 at SN 98203 66310 by 1.4m
Survey:Leica Runner 20
Surveying Gwastedyn Hill and Rhiw Gwraidd Final.doc
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 219 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all)ByDate of Ascent
Room to park one car by the gate to the start of the bridleway at the bend on the A470. Cut across a few non-A/L fields with one b/w fence to cross before reaching the summit cairn. Nice walk across to the Silver Jubilee cairn on the West Top. With Jill.Dangerous Dave05/02/2024
Jill Robertson05/02/2024
Route as richard69. Bracken now horizontal rather than vertical.JGC13/01/2024
abbo000110/10/2023
From Pt 208 on the A470. Up right of way to the edge of the trees, where insane red arrows direct you who knows where. Struck straight up the hill to the summit. Fences, but handily placed gates. Top surrounded by lots of gorse and bracken but quite a few animal/people trods through this mess.iangalbraith17/08/2023
Parked in Nant-glas at the start of the bw into the woods. Up the road to Pen y ffynnon and the bw. Followed fence boundary up to the ridge and across to the hp. Fight much of the way through wet chest high bracken. A top for the winter perhaps on this approach. Damp low cloud. With Gillian.richard6908/08/2023
Bag200001/06/2023
jabbott196822/05/2023
tomedlewis20/05/2023
From main road to NW up good path. From the fence corner at the start of the access land a good path heads up to the top. Great views and plenty of kites. Back via the west top beacon.PeterD14/02/2023
After the W top & ascended via the PRoW from the A470. Good views.DanMaisieBex23/10/2022
Cycled from Llandrindod the via the narrow metalled road leading from Nant Glas to the Pen-y-ffynnon farm. Impressive cairns.davechaffey05/09/2022
Elan Valley Way: Bagged from the Nant Glas approachPhilipChaston11/08/2022
dave g27/07/2022
fionnag27/07/2022
richwales07/07/2022
Nant Glas straight up, nice viewsStevooo17/06/2022
Route as per NormanW. Couple of bwfs to negotiate. 2.5 miles, just over an hour.JulieB26/05/2022
beckybags22/05/2022
A Peckish22/05/2022
Martyn117/05/2022
Glenysj2117/05/2022
M G Followed route by GmacTmaryjdavies29/09/2021
G, MyIdris29/09/2021
Up from the 208m spotheight path on the bend in the road to North. Up the path through the trees in the dusk at 6.30 and out into the dawn. Across the summit meadows to the beacon and 1977 silver jubilee cairn then across to the summit fuji the east. Involved tricky getting over barbie. Low level gorse covering part of the summit area.vegibagger14/10/2020
AlanD14/10/2020
Nant Glas to SE, walked up road to Pen-y-ffynnon. Followed well appointed track off to right where there is a footpath sign just inside gate of house directing steeply avoiding conflict. Meets a grassy track, rising to right. Exit into fields over barbed wire fence. Main summit first the the monument and beacon. 2/3 Rhayader MarilynN.Morters29/09/2020
From the small layby to the NW to the high point then to the large cairn and beacon on the way down. My 1500th Marilyn but nobody lit the beacon.NormanW25/09/2020
Room for a van or car at the start of the footpath from near Pt.208 on the A470, just south of the Kite Centre. We startled about 50 Red Kites as we progressed up hill, but the many sheep seemed rather relaxed in comparison. Did the West Top - clambering to the big cairn summit - before the main summit, just a touch of bracken and gorse near the summit slowing our pace.summitter16/09/2020
as ger 2 bwfs to hopunderhill17/07/2020
ketzster08/05/2020
Barry Smith28/01/2020
2/4: From Nant Glas to SE. Walked up road to Pen-y-ffynnon and then through fields. Misty, very still, cleared a little on descent. Rounsfell27/12/2019
Clachaig07/12/2019
Andy West26/08/2019
With Zoe and Charlie :Dfantango19/08/2019
Gwastedyn Hill from near Nant Glas. Warm and humid. A fight through the bracken and nettles. 4km with 300m ascent in 1h15m.silveracorn_alan03/08/2019
Philshills20/04/2019
P at little lay-by next to start of bridleway to NW of summit. Pleasant ascent. The prominent commemorative cairn (ER 1977) & the beacon, are not on access land & there is no ROW to them, but they are clearly visited.ger13/04/2019
outlawcatcher10/10/2018
davefh21/06/2018
Small lay by SN980672. Just past a small scree patch took vehical track visible in the grass. This lead to a gate. Had to step over feance to get to summit. 1 hour 30 walking slowly.rogreeves29/05/2018
CodyleCoyote29/05/2018
From road to south. Hard steep slog up and back. New bracken not an obstacle yet but old dead bracken added to the effort.ijpowell25/05/2018
Break in journey home.Dusty12/05/2018
Marilyn #500 on first day of three in Wales with Smithy & Shaky & last of hot, sunny April spell. Quick evening ascent from small layby on A470 2km SE of Rhayader. RoW not signposted but there is a strip of yellow tape on the gate... Lack of signage generally & other two got sidetracked by a nice circular signposted walk in adjacent field that someone has obviously gone to a lot of trouble with: good views over town from various benches but not where we wanted to go, so back to RoW which we followed to edge of open access land & then over short tufty grass to the summit. No bracken to contend with in April. Good viewpoint. Back by same route for Saturday evening's entertainment in Rhayader! Recommended!NotReallyABagger21/04/2018
Vertigo17/02/2018
nickywood130/11/2017
From small parking spot on A470 South of Rhayader and via good path to ridge, we went direct to west top and then to main top. There is gorse and bracken to negotiate but in the main this can be bypassed using animal tracks. With TJB. Enjoyable hill.trimarc217/08/2017
Tony Wilson18/04/2017