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Name: | Hirfynydd East Top |
Hill number: | 15697 |
Height: | 318.4m / 1045ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2277 Hirfynydd |
RHB Section: | 32B: Carmarthen to Vale of Neath |
County/UA: | Neath Port Talbot |
Catchment: | Neath |
Class: | Tump (300-399m) (Tu,3) |
Grid ref: | SN 86812 08805 |
Summit feature: | ground by track |
Drop: | 30.1m |
Col: | 288.3m SN 8586 0893 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 160 (1:25k) OL12W |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 16 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
From same overnight sleep spot on the grass just 150 metres past southern road and in Banwen via maze of tracks. Worth reading the ever fascinating account from Chris Pearson, below. | vegibagger | 20/06/2022 |
Rhedeg o Banwen. | sionbrit | 03/01/2022 |
Banwen - Hirfynydd - Hirfynydd East Top - Banwen. | Mark Jackson | 10/07/2021 |
Visited both high points, got 2m higher on gps same as Jon G. | Adrian | 18/10/2020 |
From Banwen following tracks and footpaths. | Ramblingpaul | 06/09/2020 |
From Roman Road in Banwen. Good tracks all the way. Massive wind farm infrastructure everywhere particularly near top.. Biggest lorry park in Wales. Still much rubbish left around after previous week’s infamous rave. Neath and Port Talbot completed. Very pleasant county. Lots of character. | Campbell Singer | 06/09/2020 |
A week too late. Missed the rave but still in time to view the rubbish left behind. Also missed Ramblingpaul. | Jemma Singer | 06/09/2020 |
4 hr walk with L - taking In a small stretch of the Sarn Helen roman road running the length of Wales from Neath to Caernarfon along which here has been built the (famous)unusual single terraced street of Banwen, a former mining village where in 1987 Comic Strip filmed the award winning The Strike. ( with Alexi Sayle and Robbie Coltrane et al). A plaque also announced St Patrick was born here with fledgling projects underway e.g , info trail, stone wall and mosaic to boost the tourism potential of this fact. Forest tracks wove a way eventually to summit amongst the 15 turbines of the Maesgwynn Wind Farm which together can produce 45MW of UK's renewable target of 1250MW, and surprisingly only have a life of 25 yrs before planned removal. Community donations from the wind farm co. have included a new piano for the male voice choir and homing pigeon tagging equipment! 
 
Car rallies are often held on these tracks,and off-roading (Walter''s Arena) despite the maze of row | Chris Pearson | 07/08/2018 |
After Hirfynydd trying to pick way through a myriad of tracks. HP by track junction overlooking open cast area. No one around on a Sunday. | PeterD | 10/06/2018 |
Open cast mine, extraction continues on a small scale; wind farm; car rally circuit - it's all here. Went to SN 87048 08546 as looked likely candidate for HP, but agree with RHW it's most likely at SN 86809 08803 where GPS gave 2m higher, and it looked higher. | jonglew | 14/02/2017 |
From nw, Banwen. Former opencast. Hp is bank of shale at track junction. Arrived just after a car rally stage so had all of the mud and none of the excitement. On off drizzly day | RHW | 16/07/2016 |
big day walk of Crynant and seven sisters | underhill | 04/07/2015 |
Missing pillar to the NE of this location. At the time I was looking for a high spot where I might find the pillar. New to this game at the time. Landscape changed because of opencast and then forestry and now turbines. | Dusty | 29/12/2007 |
outlawcatcher | 10/10/2018 | |
stevent0809 | 07/08/2017 | |
andrew.allum | 01/01/2000 |