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| Name: | Gwastad |
| Hill number: | 3535 |
| Height: | 551m / 1808ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2289 Coety Mountain [Coity Mountain] [Mynydd Coety] |
| RHB Section: | 32C: Neath to Chepstow |
| County/UA: | Blaenau Gwent |
| Catchment: | Usk |
| Class: | Dodd (500-599m), Dewey (Tu,5,Dew) |
| Grid ref: | SO 23476 05428 |
| Summit feature: | no feature |
| Drop: | 47m |
| Col: | 504m SO230067  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 161 (1:25k) OL13S 152 |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 96 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| 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 |
| Revisited whilst finding OS Block. | Dusty | 13/02/2024 |
| Rode up from road pass. Dull. | Rob Rees | 27/01/2024 |
| 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 | 16/06/2023 |
| Matt | 07/05/2023 | |
| Run From the Guardian Of The Valleys via most of the Cwm Nant Y Groes fell race route on a stunning sunny frosty day .. top well protected by fierce heather | milejunkie | 08/02/2023 |
| dickiewren | 21/08/2022 | |
| TedCymru | 06/08/2022 | |
| Martin R | 23/07/2022 | |
| davefh | 05/07/2022 | |
| From Rhiw Park, Abertillery. Up track through woods then along whatever tracks I could find, with a bit of heather bashing near the summit. | KeithByTheC | 25/03/2022 |
| Unmarked levelish summit in Heather, just off path on a murky grey day. From Abersychan on farm tracks. | Denise | 23/01/2022 |
| RichardM | 23/01/2022 | |
| Parked at the end of a minor road near West Bank. Up road past the chapel then footpath up hillside. There’s a tiny cairn hidden in the heather at the summit! Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 24/11/2021 |
| Abertillery - Arail - Mynydd Carn-y-cefn - Nantyglo - Cefn Coch - Coety Mountain - Gwastad - Abertillery | davidpettit84 | 19/11/2021 |
| From top of mountain road to S - SO 238033 - easy track then tough heather. | Chris Peart | 14/10/2021 |
| Ben Rinnes | 06/09/2021 | |
| 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 |
| non descript point on elevated area of heather moor SO 234055 | richardrosser | 01/12/2020 |
| Parked in the free car park by the duck pond at SO 21836 06176. Took the lane above the church to near Gwrhyd, then bracken-choked RoW east up the cwm onto the plateau. Then good tracks through the heather sea and pathless 80m to the summit. Returned mainly by outward route, but continued up Cwm Tyleri, and down to the reservoir for downward route. Solo. | Man of Kernow1 | 29/08/2020 |
| Alex C | 15/08/2020 | |
| 2/6 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 |
| andrew brown | 25/01/2020 | |
| DARRENG | 25/01/2020 | |
| Third 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 |
| TREBORK | 30/06/2019 | |
| Parked on the road to the south of the trig point in thick mist and followed the track most of the way north up to the high point. Found I had taken the westerly track instead of the easterly one so had 350m of crossing heather at the end. Very bleak up here today and hardly any visibility. Keppt thinking I was going to loose the dog! Glad I had the GPS with me to identify the high point coords. | Father Ted | 08/04/2019 |
| 3/3 - from CP at 2018109 - in fine weather - headed down track then onto ridge - windy from SW - ended up quite a lengthy ridge stroll - feels airy and is very empty as you head S | wychwood | 19/02/2019 |
| chalky1953 | 20/09/2018 | |
| amarillo-oro-como | 29/06/2018 | |
| Coety Mountain, Coety Boundary Top and Gwastard ( careful how you say that one), with Scout from Big Pit car park; hard walking underfoot at times. Dry weather. | Lou | 12/05/2018 |
| Lots of space for parking at top of mountain road at 241033 – Followed vehicle track to 2339 0552 & then headed SE along a wide cleared area for about 140yd to the high point; this lies a couple of yards S. of the cleared area & is marked by a small pile of stones hidden in the heather. (S) | gerrybowes | 25/09/2017 |
| ngthack | 08/04/2017 | |
| AlanD | 30/03/2017 | |
| Circular route from Cwmtillery taking in Gwastad, Coety Mountain (and boundary 'top') Cefn Coach and Mynydd James. Heathery flat top - one of those where you feel that anywhere inside the final contour ring will do. Lovely sunny spring day, dry underfoot and skylarks above. | milimana | 25/03/2017 |
| Circular from Llanhilleth also taking in Mynydd Coety. | liljonb | 29/08/2016 |
| From Abertillery, up Cwm Nant-y-groes to Byrgwm trig pillar first. Heather-fest. | jonglew | 25/06/2016 |
| From Coity Mountain south along the west side then up through the heather to the summit | Mariana Trench | 03/06/2016 |
| Dusty | 23/04/2016 | |
| Alone Taith Torfaen | Rob Pen y Garn | 09/04/2016 |
| boxblade | 02/04/2016 | |
| REPEAT | Steve Q | 04/03/2016 |
| Circular route from Cwmtillery. Useful car park at 21781 06091: Mynydd James, Mulfran, Cefn Coch, Coity Mountain & Gwastad. All round topped hills. Route via various quad tracks with a fair bit of yomping across heather thrown in. | Cas-gwent | 02/02/2016 |
| mntainman | 12/01/2016 | |
| From the moorland road over to Pontypool from Abertillery. Boggy track with some awful fly tipping. Otherwise, great views. | Campbell Singer | 05/01/2016 |
| Wet track from top of Church Rd above Aberbeeg. Good viewpoint | Jemma Singer | 05/01/2016 |
| nicolajane | 20/10/2015 |