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| Name: | Coety Mountain [Coity Mountain] [Mynydd Coety] |
| Hill number: | 2289 |
| Height: | 578m / 1896ft |
| RHB Section: | 32C: Neath to Chepstow |
| County/UA: | Blaenau Gwent |
| Catchment: | Usk |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Dodd (500-599m), Dewey, Current County/UA Top, Clem (Ma,Hu,Tu,5,Dew,CoU,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | SO 23161 07996 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: grassy rise |
| Drop: | 231m |
| Col: | 347m SO192115  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 161 (1:25k) OL13S |
| Observations: | ground 190m SSE at SO 23257 07831 is about 0.5m lower |
| 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 283 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Parked on carpark at Clapham Terrace, Forge Side (SO 245 084). Up to end of track past Rugby pitch, then on a bearing to the Upper Mine (SO 235 081). Followed fence and across moor to summit. | JGC | 11/04/2024 |
| With Jon, Alex and Paul. Parked at Big Pit, tried and failed to find the alleged path to the WSW of the boundary fence, so endured a tussocky bogtrot up the slope, which led to complaints. If you do this hill, I strongly recommend you take the path that runs up the side of the rugby pitch to the east, which does exist as we descended that way. On the plus side, there were excellent views from the top. | Richard | 29/03/2024 |
| w/Josella | dhulmes | 24/03/2024 |
| Cefn Coch-Coety Mountain-Coety Mountain Boundary-Gwastad-Mynydd James-Mulfran from north. Couldn't say much about first 3 as visibility down to about 30m which made things interesting. Happily cleared for middle part of day. | TK | 09/03/2024 |
| 1/5. Parked near the Big Pit car park in a small area (free) reserved for walkers. Followed the nearby Coity Tips Trail for about 150m before turning L and following the Big Pit boundary fence WSW out onto the open moorland. A small trod continues and joins the old tarmac access road to the upper mine. Turned L here and shortly afterwards R up a steep slope, having passed some crags, onto the top. Wandered around the tussocks and heather for a while looking for the hp. Wonderful sunny morning. Returned the same way. Solo. Thanks to Isbjorn below for the suggested approach. | richard69 | 28/11/2023 |
| After Mynydd Carn-y-Cefn, climbed up from Blaina via head of Tillery Valley, then returned to Winchelstown via flank of Cefn Coch and Mulfran. Top has no marker, but looks slightly higher than rest of summit area. Long walk! | IanHHill | 15/09/2023 |
| Cefn Coch > Coety Mountain > Coety Mountain (boundary) > Gwastad from GR: SO 23981 08680 | ronaldo333 | 17/06/2023 |
| Cefn Coch > Coety Mountain > Coety Mountain (boundary) > Gwastad from GR: SO 23981 08680 | Hippster | 17/06/2023 |
| 5 Hills with Peggy, fire on hill side | davecnash | 14/06/2023 |
| beckybags | 04/11/2022 | |
| A Peckish | 04/11/2022 | |
| From NE parked on rough road just neyond caravan park. Walked up part of way with farmer who was riding an 18yr old horse and was briging sheep down off the hill. Good views, featureless top but dry grass. | Nick Canute | 08/10/2022 |
| Martyn1 | 05/09/2022 | |
| Glenysj21 | 05/09/2022 | |
| dickiewren | 21/08/2022 | |
| Whistle Road car park > Path to ridge > Coety Mountain > Air Shaft > Track > Whistle Road car park. | Winterfloodian | 27/07/2022 |
| Parked at Big Pit mining museum car park, paid for parking but probably could have parked on the road, walk past front of museum and towards town, finally found the path running behind rugby pitch, Up past farm buildings and up to top, then down interesting big hole/mounds then down to abandoned farm buildings for a little explore and return | Tribal2er | 03/07/2022 |
| Revisit 17 years on Run with Pauline from Cwm Tillery lakes dry but heather still there | milejunkie | 29/04/2022 |
| After JK Orienteering held at Pwll Du. Up from Coelty Tip trail. Feet mostly dry. | davechaffey | 17/04/2022 |
| Crawford Lindsay | 17/04/2022 | |
| wintergreen | 17/04/2022 | |
| richwales | 09/04/2022 | |
| Smog | 09/04/2022 | |
| With KeithByTheC. 12.8 mile circuit from Abertillary. Abertillary, Coety Mountain, Cefn Goch (Tump), Cwm Celyn, Mynydd Carn-y-cefn all the way along the ridge to entrance of wood at 203048, then down through wood to Abertillary. | JulieB | 25/03/2022 |
| From Gwastad. Mostly good tracks until fairly close to summit. Bit of tussocky grass and heather. | KeithByTheC | 25/03/2022 |
| phil101 | 25/03/2022 | |
| Low cloud no views, grassy sheep pasture no mark. Penultimate Welsh Marilyn | Denise | 23/01/2022 |
| Circular walk from Blaenavon, fine weather, good walking on paths but off paths is very slow in heather and long grass. Lovely taste of the Welsh countryside. | JazDisney | 16/01/2022 |
| From Forge Side. The highest but least interesting of The Valleys HuMPs/Marilyns. Reminiscent of walking in the wretched South Pennines. | Wycombe Wanderer | 15/01/2022 |
| SOTA | mike.hartley | 09/01/2022 |
| From Big Pit. Boggy ground and a deep water-filled ditch to cross before reaching the hillside. More challenging than I was expecting! Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 23/11/2021 |
| Abertillery - Arail - Mynydd Carn-y-cefn - Nantyglo - Cefn Coch - Coety Mountain - Gwastad - Abertillery | davidpettit84 | 19/11/2021 |
| Nomad Perkins | 05/11/2021 | |
| Ben Rinnes | 06/09/2021 | |
| David S | 03/06/2021 | |
| Solo Blaenavon loop on the hot Bank Holiday. Up from Forge Side via the bridleway then along the ridge following the boundary line. Great long views from the rather featureless summit. Onwards to Cefn Coch-Carreg Maen Taro standing stone-Pen Rhiw Ifor tip-Cefn y Galchen-Carnedd y Defaid cairns-Blaenavon. | thesweetcheat | 31/05/2021 |
| Manuel Pereda | 01/05/2021 | |
| ARC | 30/04/2021 | |
| mntainman | 19/04/2021 | |
| From the confusing and hiddeous mess of roads, buildings and fences that is Big Pit, but really easy peasy to get started. 3-4 free parking spaces set aside for walkers just below Big Pit CP barrier SO2381308957. From these CP places TR N (right), level, past the 'rusty miner' for a few metres to display board, then use adjacent kissing gate on L to start clockwise around Coity Tips Trail. After about 100m at 1st big RH bend and double gates, an unlikely looking tiny path goes straight ahead along outside edge of fence (on your L) and over a stile onto the common land (less than 150m from the CP). Small path, wet at first, leads directly up to old horizontal mine track and, just above that, a tarmac track ascending R to L leads up to a hidden very large metal shed. From E end of this metal shed an obvious scar leads up to a capacious gap in the skyline fence, from where several An Tx lead on, but peter out, in the mass of rough heather. A very direct route. | Isbjorn | 15/04/2021 |
| Parked in Whistle Road car park. Tracks to old mine, then straight up to Coety Mountain. Onward to Gwastad and back to Cefn Coch. Direct return from Cefn Coch. | PGCE | 30/03/2021 |
| SOLO | donmeister | 31/08/2020 |
| From Big Pit, dull summit area but loved the mine, closed due to Covid | N.Morters | 24/08/2020 |
| Bit of a disappointment for a significant hill top like this. Imagine on a fine day the views would more than make up for a somewhat dull walk in. | Alex C | 15/08/2020 |
| geralddavison | 12/08/2020 | |
| Neil Midgley | 27/07/2020 | |
| 3/6 Dewey day. From the end of the small road near the pub at Whistle Halt. Up FP to ridge, then north to Cefn Coch and back to path. Then along rough off road vehicle track along west side of Coity Mountain and up to near summit of Gwastad. Short navigation through heather. Back track to due west of Coity Mtn summit, then short cross country to the top. Descent to mine road and back to Whistle Halt. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 21/07/2020 |
| from whistle stop cp coety mountain block dusty found open 23159 07989, boundry, mynydd farteg fawr tp, gwastad, waen wen, mynydd james, cefn coch, mulfran and back to whistle stop 7 hrs approx 26ks lots of heather no paths to get to tops | underhill | 29/05/2020 |
| 4/5 From Big Pit Museum in thick mist. Terrain at first terrible â tussocks, bog. | Rounsfell | 25/01/2020 |
| Second of three Deweys from the free car park at the start of the road leading to the Whistle Inn 23004 10312. Ten mile done in four hours, route was Cefn Coch, Coity Mountain and Gwastad. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 19/01/2020 |