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Name: | Graig-wen |
Hill number: | 14444 |
Height: | 406.9m / 1335ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2087 Cadair Berwyn |
RHB Section: | 30E: Bala to Welshpool |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | The Berwyns |
County/UA: | Wrexham |
Catchment: | Dee (Flint) |
Class: | Tump (400-499m) (Tu,4) |
Grid ref: | SJ 24072 37106 |
Summit feature: | large cairn |
Drop: | 53.5m |
Col: | 353.4m SJ 2443 3537 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 126 (1:25k) 240 255 256 |
Survey: | Trimble GeoXH 6000 |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 28 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Forest tracks from Pontfadog and over BWF into summit field. Summit has 2m tall cairn topped by a seducing concrete statue. Fine views despite the blowing snow. Sunshine. Luckily ignored by farmer muck spreading in field to S. | RichardM | 16/01/2023 |
I arrived at the summit, at the same moment as the farmer. Nowhere to hide; luckily he was friendly and proudly told me he had rebuilt the summit feature, added the statue; and said it was a trigpoint, not a cairn, marking 1330ft. | Martin R | 07/03/2022 |
From SE along Lane to gate, alongside forest and then fence before crossing to large cairn | PeterD | 18/06/2021 |
From the lane to the SE. Straightforward and no farmer or bovine incidents. In fact the fields only seemed to have sheep droppings in them. The monument is rather bizarre. | clivevilla | 07/10/2020 |
Parked to the ESE in very rustic farmers lane SJ245369. | David Evans | 18/11/2019 |
Parked round the corner from Plas-newydd. Pleasant walk along lane and up edge of wood and across pasture to unusual and unexplained cairn adornment. | Campbell Singer | 24/10/2019 |
As Aye Jimmy. Parked on grass verge to ESE at SJ 24687 36772 - NW down lane for about 200m to gate - Through gate & up side of wood to top corner of field - Straddled fence where barbed wire has been removed & short walk to very large summit cairn. (S) | gerrybowes | 07/02/2019 |
From lane to ESE, parking just before lane starts to go downhill. Down lane, through gate, field then edge of wood and up to top field. Large cairn and cherub with water jars perched on top. | Aye Jimmy | 01/04/2018 |
Dear Graig-Wen, 
 
You are my most hated tump. Ever since I asked a farmer friend who lives nearby about you, and she told me you were owned by a savage farmer who leaves a wild bull on top of this hill to guard it, and several years ago got his shotgun out to scare away camping hippies, I have feared you. I finally conquered you today, but it was no mean feat. I lost count of the BWFs I crossed and when I thought I had made a cow free journey to the summit, a herd of very large and intimidating bovids crowded into the southern fields, blocking my exit. I had to walk around for an hour to find my way out, as there was thick brambly coppice seemingly on all sides. Your cherub Cairn thing is stupid too, made more so by how seemingly purposely inaccessibly you are. 
 
On the plus side the end of my walk through the Eastern forest was ok, once I was sure I wasn't headed for a trampling, and the farmer I passed seemed ok, so maybe the stories aren't true. At least I got my excercise today. | tumpawumpa | 04/10/2017 |
11/14 (Llanymynech Hill/Mynydd y Bryn/Craig-y-Rhiw/Pen Coed y Bwlch/Mynydd Lledrod/Pen-y-gwely/Craig-yr-hwch/Foel Rhiwas/Spring Hill/Plas-Crogen Wood/Graig-Wen/Careg y Big/Craig-Y-Ddault/Mynydd Y Glyn) | Fergalh | 15/07/2017 |
From SJ250363. Bizarre summit cairn adornment. | summitsup | 05/07/2016 |
From Pontfadog,up forestry track to barn,through gate far side of barn,cross field,through another gate,another field and gate and we reached the cairn.NO NEED TO CLIMB ANY FENCES. | mad max | 01/12/2015 |
Continuation of walk from Grugfryn (Plas-crogan Wood). Continued north-west on B4579, then lanes and bridleway north. At a point just before the track begins to descend took a bracken-covered track beyond a gate, over one barbed wire fence then up over pasture to very prominent summit cairn, complete with a garden statue of a nymph fixed to its summit. Very strange! Returned very much by outward route. With MP on an evening walk/survey. | Man of Kernow1 | 17/07/2015 |
Climbed some time ago but not logged | treborconde | 06/07/2014 |
SJ2307337108 | Anton | 12/06/2012 |
massive cairn topped with quartzite, pasture, nice view. from E, cross pasture | RHW | 21/02/2004 |
estimated date. with an old mate when investigating cairns.. | stig_nest | 01/07/1989 |
Dusty | 19/08/2023 | |
Adrian | 24/08/2019 | |
TK | 28/04/2018 | |
Rob50 | 04/02/2018 | |
andrew brown | 04/12/2017 | |
ngthack | 12/03/2017 | |
RichardJ51 | 16/02/2017 | |
Galvgoon | 09/10/2015 | |
MM | 06/07/2015 | |
Alex C | 24/02/2015 | |
carole engel | 27/10/2012 | |
andrew.allum | 01/01/2000 |