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| Name: | Carneddau South Top |
| Hill number: | 14970 |
| Height: | 432m / 1417ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2195 Carneddau |
| RHB Section: | 31B: Welshpool to Hay-on-Wye |
| County/UA: | Powys |
| Catchment: | Wye |
| Class: | Tump (400-499m) (Tu,4) |
| Grid ref: | SO 06628 54075 |
| Summit feature: | large cairn and windshelter |
| Drop: | 41m |
| Col: | 391m SO065545  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 147 (1:25k) 200E |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 64 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| With Jill. Good ATV track through the dead bracken right to the top. | Dangerous Dave | 04/02/2024 |
| Layby on A481 through Llanelwedd Quarry to Caer Fawr, Carneddau S Top, Carneddau SW Top & Carneddau SE Top. All missed in a former life when I just did the Marilyn. Then lanes, etc to Perthi Common and back. | TK | 05/01/2024 |
| From lay-by on A481 to south. Up road past Pentre and Ty Rhiwlasthen then BW to access land. Clockwise round of the Carneddau tops. | PeterD | 29/11/2023 |
| Circular hike - layby on A481 close to junction with B4567 - past Llanelwedd quarries - pass foot of Caer Fawr (392m) - pass standing stone - cairn 1 on South Top (432m) - South West Top trig point (436m) - cairn 2 on Carneddau (445m) - hillfort - Cwm-berwyn - past standing stone - Llanelwedd quarries - layby on A481. Total distance: 9.3 miles | manilena | 25/11/2023 |
| Same parking and route as Mark Jackson below, apart from initial ascent via Pen y waun and Carneddau ascent via Pantgwin. Very pleasant and enjoyable day with good weather. Picked bilberries for later on Aberedw Hill. With Gillian | richard69 | 09/08/2023 |
| Layby at A481/B4567 junction - Rhiw Rhwstyn - Aberedw Hill - Aberedw Hill N Top - Pentre - Carneddau - Carneddau SW Top - Carneddau S Top - Caer Fawr - Maengowan - layby. 11 miles, 4.5 hours. Very hot. | Mark Jackson | 24/06/2023 |
| Bagged on circular route with trig summit and Carneddau Marilyn from the south. | KevPalmer | 27/04/2023 |
| From Rhiwlas to south. No parking in the lane so parked in the large lay by on main road. South Top, South West Top and Caer Mawr. Grass tracks make for fast walking. Lovely morning with temperature inversion. Delightful area. | Campbell Singer | 22/04/2023 |
| Mountain biking | Rob Rees | 24/02/2023 |
| Superb hills, and a grand day.. views to Brecon Beacons, Black Mountain, Great Rhos, Drygarn/Gorllwyn. Good tracks linking all the tops. | Nick Canute | 10/10/2022 |
| A round of Caer Fawr and the three Carneddau 400m P30m tops with AC, DM, RM, TJ, RW and AR, celebrating Alex's 400th Marilyn on the highest. From Builth Wells. 15.1km, with 645m of ascent. | Man of Kernow1 | 19/03/2022 |
| Large cairn on grassy slopes. Breezy and sunny. En route to Alex’s 400 th Marilyn. View of Waun Fach. | Denise | 19/03/2022 |
| 4 Carneddau tops revisited on a sunny windy day, celebrating Alex's 400th Marilyn. From SW, Llanelwedd, P Burger King | RHW | 19/03/2022 |
| Summit topped by large cairn in neat grass. | RichardM | 19/03/2022 |
| 2/5 Parked in lay-by on A481 (SO 074530) and up lane to Rhiwlas for a clockwise tour of the five tops. Lovely walking on springy turf on a very fine day. | milimana | 19/09/2020 |
| Up the quarry track then footpath to Caer Fawr, taking a re-route around Maengowan Farm due to Covid-19 request from owner. From here a clockwise circuit of Carneddau South Top, SW Top, Main Top and SE Top, returning along the main footpath through these lovely and easy underfoot hills. | summitter | 17/09/2020 |
| Circular hike - layby on A481 close to junction with B4567 - past Llanelwedd quarries - pass foot of Caer Fawr (392m) - pass standing stone - cairn 1 on South Top (432m) - South West Top trig point (436m) - cairns 2 and 4 on Carneddau (445m) - hillfort - Cwm-berwyn - Caer Einon - past Llanelwedd quarries - layby on A481. Total distance: 9.4 miles | manilena | 30/08/2020 |
| parked by gate n of the banks as per Gill, Marilyn. fort, se top, s top, cae fawr return via sw top/trig | underhill | 23/08/2020 |
| see main summit entry | Neil Midgley | 29/07/2020 |
| Climbed from the Cwm Berwyn footpath (to the north east). Stunning views and a marvellous summit even though it has neither the trig point or the highest point, this feels like the summit of the Radnorshire Carneddau. | Rob Rees | 04/12/2019 |
| Parked at SO 08142 53964 on the bend on the verge on the minor road. Did a circuit of Carneddau SE Top, Carneddau S Top, Carneddau SW Top and Caer Fawr. About 1 hour 45 mins. All fairly straightforward with no difficulties. | clivevilla | 05/03/2019 |
| from SE top, easy walk along tracks worn by scramble bikes. | DanMaisieBex | 17/02/2019 |
| Fourth summit. Anticlockwise walk with Iain Brown over Carneddau plateau of 5 tumps | vegibagger | 31/12/2018 |
| Parked at SO05205193 (could have parked further up the track).Pleasant amble round Caer Fawr (first) then Carneddau South Top, Carneddau SW Top and finally Carneddau SE Top. Finished off with Caer Einion P15+. Delightful. | summitsup | 29/10/2017 |
| From Caer Fawr. Nice stroll. | Moorponder | 07/10/2017 |
| Along from Caer Fawr. Nice views along the hill top. | Andrew Pearson | 23/04/2017 |
| From the Marilyn and then on to the trig. | Herbert Anchovy | 20/02/2017 |
| 1/7 First of great snowy day's walking (Carneddau South Top/Carneddau South West Top/Whimble/Bache Hill/Great Creigau/Black Mixen/Great Rhos) | Fergalh | 22/11/2015 |
| From Caer Fawr. | JohnStoneham | 06/09/2014 |
| SO0663054082. Made the top in the middle of the 2 man made structures. | Anton | 12/03/2014 |
| With: hb sb ab; We approached from the E via Cwm Berwyn and the bridle track then along the ridge. We returned by the same route. | Ian Baines | 06/08/2006 |
| With: ib sb ab; | Helen Baines | 06/08/2006 |
| fine summit;large tumulus;lovely view. FP & common land from E | RHW | 12/04/2003 |
| Circular hike - layby on A481 close to junction with B4567 - past Llanelwedd quarries - pass foot of Caer Fawr (392m) - pass standing stone - cairn 1 on South Top (432m) - South West Top trig point (436m) - cairn 2 on Carneddau (445m) - hillfort - Cwm-berwyn - past standing stone - Llanelwedd quarries - layby on A481. Total distance: 9.3 miles | manilena | blank |
| David S | 19/03/2024 | |
| Jill Robertson | 04/02/2024 | |
| Ben Rinnes | 16/08/2023 | |
| thefunkylibrarian | 15/04/2023 | |
| Rob Rees | 15/04/2022 | |
| Man of Kernow2 | 19/03/2022 | |
| Adrian | 19/03/2022 | |
| Alex C | 19/03/2022 | |
| asbown | 16/03/2022 | |
| Andy West | 01/06/2021 | |
| Steve Q | 18/04/2021 | |
| Rob Rees | 13/03/2020 | |
| Dusty | 03/11/2019 | |
| fantango | 07/04/2019 | |
| iaindbrown | 31/12/2018 | |
| outlawcatcher | 10/10/2018 |