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| Name: | Caer Estyn |
| Hill number: | 14780 |
| Height: | 154m / 505ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2051 Mynydd y Cwm [Coed Cwm] |
| RHB Section: | 30C: Llandudno to Wrexham |
| County/UA: | Flintshire [Sir Fflint] |
| Catchment: | Dee (Flint) |
| Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
| Grid ref: | SJ 31391 57465 |
| Summit feature: | mossy stones in birch wood |
| Drop: | 58m |
| Col: | 96m SJ317582  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 117 (1:25k) 256 |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 41 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Parked in free parking to the Nw of the hill and took fp that climbs up to the North. I could not resist entering the wood so increased the difficulty as there are good paths however it was nice meandering through the mixed woodland, lots of holly, birch, bilberry and the like. High point in brambles not far from path. Descended West using some paths and at times a wilder descent to reach fp following it out to reach the road and then heading over to Caergwrle Castle... | Dazingdale | 11/02/2024 |
| Good track from SE. A fire pit at summit | cjo | 28/08/2022 |
| Parked to ESE and up FP and good track to top. | PeterD | 11/04/2022 |
| Parked in the very large car park at Hope Health Centre (E. side of A550 at SJ 3100 5766) - Short walk S. & then E. along RoW & path just inside wood for about 300m before heading up a decent path to the mossy summit stones; these lie in bramble close to path junction. (S) | gerrybowes | 07/02/2022 |
| Ascended by torchlight from N on a myriad of wooded paths. HP unmarked and indistinct in area of bramble and fortifications. Continued back to Caergwle. | Denise | 29/01/2022 |
| From the N. Lots of good 'locals paths' through the brambly birch woods. High point mossy rocks in brambles a few metres to S of summit path. | RichardM | 29/01/2022 |
| Caergwrle - Caer Estyn - Caergwrle Castle - Hope Mountain - Caergwrle. | Mark Jackson | 05/12/2020 |
| As David Evans. Straightforward. | clivevilla | 21/05/2020 |
| Parked in the old quarry entrance road to the east. Along very slippy duckboards and fp for 150 mts then into wood with plenty of fp options. Nice easy start to the day | Campbell Singer | 05/11/2019 |
| Nice woodland walk up ROW from road to east with easy parking buy houses | Mark Sims | 09/07/2019 |
| From Road to South, walked public footpath around boggy snow covered fields. Several Exciting false summits from N including large Rocky outcrop, but summit is deeper into the wood and actually a very nice spot with lots of little paths darting here and there. Finding the way down a little more troublesome - ended up possibly going through a private driveway? On to Caergwrle castle - with Nwormgage and Paletta | tumpawumpa | 29/12/2017 |
| From ESE at sign saying Rock Lane - leading to Bryn-yr-Gaer woods. Round left as soon as woods entered, past old quarry and reservoir. Summit of mossy stones in birch trees. | Aye Jimmy | 19/11/2017 |
| from NE up across what looks like re;landscaped fromer quarry to the higher part of hill to the west | vegibagger | 19/06/2017 |
| Parked: Hope Medical Centre Carpark SJ 31022 57632. Footpath starts 50 yards to south. | David Evans | 23/01/2017 |
| Accessed via FP now part of the new Wales Link path connecting the ODP at Llandegla with the AWCP at Saltney Ferry. Nice birch wooded hill - would probably never have climbed it until finding this web site last month ! | JohnIvor | 16/01/2017 |
| Continuation of walk from Caergwrle Castle. Returned to A 541 and headed east under railway bridge, crossing the River Alyn by the road bridge. Then took RoW east past Rhyddyn Farm to its highest point, diverting south on overgrown RoW up to top of the woods. Found a small path from RoW leading SW up to summit area. Returned by outward route. Solo. | Man of Kernow1 | 02/09/2016 |
| Following Hope Mountain. Returned to Caergwrle. Then via Rhyddyn Hill to SJ317574. FP to summit area. Interesting outcrops in bushes 30m E of HP. Followed path down to SJ312575. Made it back to car park at Caergwrle just before a heavy shower came over. | Richard Gunn | 15/06/2016 |
| Small mound in open wood just south of path. Brink of quarry to East feels as high although gps says 10m lower. Path from ESE | RHW | 19/12/2015 |
| Roadside bagging with Dugswell. | Smudge | 13/11/2015 |
| Parked on minor road to the ESE then used footpath to gain access to wood and then summit with Smudge. | Dugswell2 | 13/11/2015 |
| On an exploration of Caergwrle from the railway station - Caer Estyn and Caergwrle Castle. | summitsup | 29/08/2015 |
| Pleasant tracks through the wood from the ESE | GordonAdshead | 04/07/2015 |
| Parked at S end of ROW at western end of Rhydyn Hill road. Up ROW and into nice woodlands to top. | PeteF | 18/08/2013 |
| Caergwrle circular walk. | mad max | 13/06/2013 |
| Not far from home but have this date logged elsewhere | Bellebow | 10/04/2012 |
| Date estimated. | TK | 01/01/2009 |
| With Claire. | MickyRoss | 06/07/1997 |
| With Caergwrle Castle | malcorbett | blank |
| Dusty | 27/03/2024 | |
| Matt | 02/12/2022 | |
| Halfdecent | 06/11/2022 | |
| Martin R | 18/11/2021 | |
| johnbarnard25 | 20/01/2020 | |
| carole engel | 20/11/2018 | |
| MM | 24/05/2018 | |
| ngthack | 20/12/2017 | |
| Rob50 | 13/08/2017 | |
| andrew brown | 03/04/2017 | |
| stevent0809 | 21/08/2016 | |
| Alan Caine | 02/08/2016 | |
| Alex C | 21/11/2015 |