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Name: | Pen-y-coed |
Hill number: | 5188 |
Height: | 220m / 722ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2087 Cadair Berwyn |
RHB Section: | 30E: Bala to Welshpool |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | The Berwyns |
County/UA: | Denbighshire [Sir Ddinbych] |
Catchment: | Dee (Flint) |
Class: | Hump, Tump (200-299m), Clem (Hu,Tu,2,Cm) |
Grid ref: | SJ 22567 41474 |
Summit feature: | no feature: ground by wall |
Drop: | 105m |
Col: | 115.2m SJ 2241 4100 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 117 (1:25k) 255 256 |
Observations: | summit in trees |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 77 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
From Brooke Street. Great paths and short scramble over debris to wall/top. Down via MB trails. 8/9 HuMP | N.Morters | 20/02/2023 |
Followed the red path until just north of the summit. Then a steep clamber over fallen trees, brash and bramble. | summitter | 27/11/2022 |
Parked near entrance to Tyn Dwr Hall. Up FP then track and last few 100m through undergrowth to wall and HP. Not the easiest way, cam back down MTB track to field and redoing path. | PeterD | 25/11/2022 |
https://www.strava.com/activities/7596997648 | Sleepwa1ker | 05/08/2022 |
This is all very easy now- ATB tracks are being developed and one goes off the red-waymarked path from the cross wall, on the S side of the ridge, at 226413 (from map- not a GPS reading), NW along the summit ridge. Not knowing this, we followed red-marked round the N side and went through a gap to a very faint trod getting round the worst of the brash and fallen trees and had a nice surprise of finding the ATB track NW of the top so we traversed the summit. With Pete. | pwheeler | 24/03/2022 |
Street parking in Brook Street. Quick up and down. | PGCE | 05/02/2022 |
As Moorponder but if you go straight up from the end of the wall, you'll end up pretty much at the summit. If anything, you might have to walk a few yards north west. I'm surprised there isn't a path to the summit. 
It's a trip. | Wycombe Wanderer | 25/01/2022 |
family walk | Fabioski | 13/11/2021 |
From Brook street. Up red trail to end of walls then up through felled trees and brambles. At the crest tracked eastwards up to the summit by the kink in the wall. | Moorponder | 16/10/2021 |
Parked in Brook Street, up hill road to fingerpost, following red Woodland Trust waymark posts clockwise round hill to highest point, then struck up into trees to summit. Back down to Woodland Trust poath to complete circuit of hill. With Tim747. | CreakingHiker | 20/08/2020 |
With CreakingHiker | tim747 | 20/08/2020 |
From car park in Brook Street like others. What is up with Llangollen... The Humps feel like tumps and the tumps feel like Marilyns... Very nice area up here. | tumpawumpa | 17/04/2019 |
Cyrn-y-brain, Pen-y-coed | keithouk | 20/01/2019 |
From bottom of Brook Street. Tarmac path forks steeply from pavement, then steep up and a right turn onto woodland path. Found our own way up. There are little trails amongst the trees. Nice woodland walking in the dusk. With B and R. | jenx | 25/11/2018 |
At dusk from Llangollen town, parking in Brook street by garages free. See Jenx notes. Interesting top. | nordicstar | 25/11/2018 |
Parked in Pay & Display car park behind church at bottom of Brook Street - Up road for 100yd & then forked left up Penycoed Road to fingerpost - Followed waymarked path through lovely mixed woodland & about 90 yd from top left path & up through trees to unmarked summit. (S) | gerrybowes | 13/11/2018 |
From roadside parking, steep up tarmac path then good path through woods-easy to miss faint path steep up ridge through woods to top/wall no views at top but some in places. dry, cloud & some sun. | apricorum | 26/03/2018 |
F/p starts about 70m NW of entrance to Tyn Dwr Hall, long zig NW then a zag SE to upper track. Cross this and up wood to summit near a gap in the wall. | Aye Jimmy | 02/02/2018 |
Parked in entrance to Tyn Dwr Hall SJ230415 | carole engel | 10/06/2017 |
From pay & display car park behind church. The red route circumnavigates the hill | jimbloomer | 19/04/2017 |
Small bagging day in the rain after the previous days exertions 9/9 (Cefn Ddu/Moel Tryfan/Mynydd y Cwm/Cefn yr Ogof/Moelfree Isaf/Moel Fodiar/Moel Tywysog/Mynydd Tryfan/Pen-y-Coed) | Fergalh | 16/10/2016 |
Lovely area of mixed woodland with nice views from clearings above the tightly packed slate roofed houses of LLangollen. Circular trip from pay and display carpark behind church on A5 to NW of summit. No parking on other narrow streets.1:25 map detail useful.Summit- indistinct, but by crumbling slate wall- appears a little distance to the NW of the OS spot height. | Denise | 14/10/2016 |
From small car park in Brook St. at base of NW shoulder (pay and display, free after 17:00) narrow lanes reach path which crosses pasture and enters mixed woodland (Woodland Trust) Easily up through Oak, Ash and Pines to summit. No views | RichardM | 14/10/2016 |
As chrisbien. Great path from road. Another great path on left well before reaching the walled track - follows line of broken wall shown on 1:25000 map which is actually a retaining wall to support the path - emerges onto higher track from which a very short climb through trees brings you to the wall. Highest point seems to be gap in wall as previously reported. OS map shows high point further along wall to south east and on opposite side of wall, but it is clearly not right. | ijpowell | 17/09/2016 |
from pay and display car park as others. | Rob50 | 26/06/2016 |
With K and RM. From near old youth hostel. More paths on hill than info suggests. | Ashley | 27/05/2016 |
From pay and display. A wood full of birdsong. Little else to get excited about. Could be made into lovely local amenity but is currently very unkempt summit area.no views at top. | stig_nest | 16/03/2016 |
From pay and display car park. Easy through wood. | Alan Caine | 12/03/2016 |
From Tyndwr Adventure Centre. | Chris Peart | 11/03/2016 |
As DesTaylor. Up path then double back at crest and a quick off path trudge to the top. | clivevilla | 20/09/2015 |
From Llangollen, simple ascent, views of abbey on route. | rhalstead | 22/03/2014 |
parked near activity centre. An exercise in navigation through the trees. | JohnStoneham | 22/03/2014 |
Came up with a bottle of cheap wine the night that Andy Murray won Wimbledon. | Alex C | 07/07/2013 |
park in town. signed tarmac path to hill. bear right after 200m over three stiles to where path levels off. straight uphill through scrubby trees to wall | arranc | 02/05/2013 |
Up from the town. Followed the public footpath then a good but unmarked path off to the right (after two styles) almost to the top then cut off through the trees to the right when the short holding wall ends. | simon and co | 03/01/2013 |
Parked in Llangollen and followed A5 to Star Inn, turning S onto lane up past a chapel. Followed lane for 150m uphill, then left up tarmaced path by some houses. Where tarmac ends a sign shows way up hill. Made it unnecessarily difficult by following wall all the way to summit over barbed wire fences. True HP probably under wall but general summit area apparent. Descended NW thorough mixed woodland to pick up path down through kissing gate and down to houses. There is a pay & display car park right under hill by chapel at SJ 2190 4185. | Man of Kernow1 | 09/12/2012 |
Up from Brook Street. A very pleasant wooded hill. I followes the ruined dyke through runnable woodland up and dropped northwards to a substantial path on return. | fasgadh | 04/05/2012 |
3rd and last of the day, Walked from the middle of town,followed path up and the wall back down. | heavyhorses | 18/02/2012 |
As Des, Chris B and Andrew from parking near activity centre and top appears near broken wall near large tree but walked along and around wall. | Dugswell2 | 21/05/2011 |
Parked nr entrance to Activity Centre. ROW then path onto track at 190m. Across track through forest to wall with breaks. Top seems to be beside one of the breaks. | chrisbien | 12/04/2011 |
Tried northern approach but parking was rubbish. Easy parking and good path from east side. Summit impossible to identify with any certainty. | chriswatson | 15/09/2010 |
parked at 230 414. Followed path to within 130m of top then through forest. Top flattish so could be anywhere. probably the wall. Difficult to get reliable GPS because of trees. | destaylor | 08/07/2010 |
From SJ 230 414. Walked along the summit wall to make sure. | summitsup | 10/02/2010 |
I think the highest spot is a large tree next to the wall at grid 2254941479 but there's a good chance I'm wrong because it's in a wood. | andrew brown | 04/12/2009 |
deciduous wooded hill, rather messy ascent, no view. park 229414, FP then steep scrubby climb thru wd, descend via good tk (poss access probs) to 229411 | RHW | 19/01/2002 |
thenomad | 31/01/2024 | |
Dusty | 20/08/2023 | |
Adrian | 10/09/2021 | |
ianwatson | 24/07/2019 | |
PM | 16/12/2018 |