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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
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Survey:Trimble GeoXH 6000
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 28 users)ByDate 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.RichardM16/01/2023
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 R07/03/2022
From SE along Lane to gate, alongside forest and then fence before crossing to large cairnPeterD18/06/2021
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.clivevilla07/10/2020
Parked to the ESE in very rustic farmers lane SJ245369.David Evans18/11/2019
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 Singer24/10/2019
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)gerrybowes07/02/2019
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 Jimmy01/04/2018
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. tumpawumpa04/10/2017
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)Fergalh15/07/2017
From SJ250363. Bizarre summit cairn adornment.summitsup05/07/2016
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 max01/12/2015
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 Kernow117/07/2015
Climbed some time ago but not loggedtreborconde06/07/2014
SJ2307337108Anton12/06/2012
massive cairn topped with quartzite, pasture, nice view. from E, cross pasture RHW21/02/2004
estimated date. with an old mate when investigating cairns..stig_nest01/07/1989
Dusty19/08/2023
Adrian24/08/2019
TK28/04/2018
Rob5004/02/2018
andrew brown04/12/2017
ngthack12/03/2017
RichardJ5116/02/2017
Galvgoon09/10/2015
MM06/07/2015
Alex C24/02/2015
carole engel27/10/2012
andrew.allum01/01/2000