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Name: | Allt yr Esgair |
Hill number: | 2273 |
Height: | 392.6m / 1288ft |
RHB Section: | 32A: Llandovery to Monmouth |
Nuttall/Wainwright area: | Black Mountains |
County/UA: | Powys |
Catchment: | Usk, Catchment Boundaries, Wye |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Tump (300-399m), Clem (Ma,Hu,Tu,3,Cm) |
Grid ref: | SO 12615 24361 |
Summit feature: | rocky knoll |
Drop: | 199m |
Col: | 194m SO 1424 2252 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 161 (1:25k) OL13N OL13S |
Survey: | Abney level/Trimble GeoXH 6000 |
Comments: | col height determined by LIDAR. Natural col now covered by road/road structure |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 292 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
SOTA | mike.hartley | 24/03/2024 |
With Shaky on a bright, clear day from the large layby off the A40 about 2km W of Bwlch. Followed the track & then bridleway straight up enjoying the big display of snowdrops near the farm. Followed the track along to the summit for a cracking view of Black Mountains, Brecon Beacons, the Usk valley. Not too muddy. Back the same way. | NotReallyABagger | 30/01/2024 |
Very muddy, but beautiful clear views. 
Walked from Bwlch along Beacons Way to Llangorse lake before ascending, then followed the ridge back to Bwlch | JacquiH7 | 04/01/2024 |
Nice hill, well would have been but for the heavy rain and no views. | Alan Caine | 04/11/2023 |
From car park to SW. | JGC | 19/09/2023 |
Walked up from Pennorth. Nice hill except for nettles on path; great views, a little gem, as someone else said. | IanHHill | 12/09/2023 |
From car park to SW, via ridge to NW. KSCFB | Ham and Skate | 28/08/2023 |
Polk tour | Rob Rees | 25/04/2023 |
Easter Day sunrise. He is Risen! | Rob Rees | 09/04/2023 |
www.exploringmidwales.co.uk Tour | Rob Rees | 08/04/2023 |
Parked in the large brown signed layby to the south. Pleasant, if initially muddy, ascent. Great views, especially west with the sun just setting behind the main Brecon ridge. | richard69 | 02/01/2023 |
Wales weekend | chelec | 31/12/2022 |
End of ridgetop good views all around.Walked from Bwlch | freethehilltops | 25/10/2022 |
From Llangasty Village Hall. Dimunitive but fab hill because of the outstanding all round views from the top. | mazz | 29/08/2022 |
Truthfully don't remember much about this one, parked in layby,did a loop | Tribal2er | 13/07/2022 |
Revisit … last time was 2005 … short run up and down from the lay by at SO 129222 … lovely baby mountain | milejunkie | 14/06/2022 |
From village hall to north. Iron age hill fort and some bouldering on summit. Nice views. | Nick Canute | 03/04/2022 |
Donation-parked at Gasty village hall to north. Ascended permitted path on west side of ridge, descended bridleway through woods. All lovely. | Wycombe Wanderer | 14/01/2022 |
From c/p on the A40. Fine viewpoint. Good easy hill over PRoW. | DanMaisieBex | 29/08/2021 |
From Bwlch and then down to Llangors lake | benwloudon | 19/04/2021 |
1 x grass parking at A-C class road junction at SO141225. 'Roman Road', NW from 2nd bend on C class road. | Isbjorn | 15/04/2021 |
With Henry | thefunkylibrarian | 12/04/2021 |
From the hall to the North. Excellent views from the summit. | NormanW | 29/09/2020 |
A great up-n-down from the car park on the A40 below. Superb panorama of the Beacon and Black Mts. | summitter | 20/09/2020 |
Approached from the north. Parked at village hall which is on the road just south of Tymawr Farm. Very nice views of Myndd Llangorse, Myndd Troed and Llangorse Lake on the way. | Pete West | 19/09/2020 |
Part of a 17km circular hike from Bwlch. Also incorporated Mynydd Llangorse and a loop around most of Llangorse lake. Enjoyable afternoon :-) | Gerry the Ranger | 03/09/2020 |
Visit to Welsh Venison farm shop SE near Bwlch. Excellent bacon roll before heading up the track/path more than happy for me to leave car in their car park... and yes another bacon roll for lunch before departing. 2/3 Marilyn, dry but rain coming on just before car. | N.Morters | 27/08/2020 |
G, My | Idris | 22/08/2020 |
G, My | maryjdavies | 22/08/2020 |
Lovely hill. From the hall to the north. Had an early lunch on the top. Lots of wall brown butterflies. | Herbert Anchovy | 01/08/2020 |
2 hours- good views | hill_walker | 18/03/2020 |
A40 near Tretower - Myarth - Buckland Hill - Allt yr Esgair - Bwlch. | Mark Jackson | 20/02/2020 |
Short circular walk from a cottage we are staying at over new year. First walk for a long time and hopefully getting back into it. | atreides7887 | 02/12/2019 |
From village hall to the north. Just says Hall on OS map and it is not in a village. Lots of free parking. | ijpowell | 29/08/2019 |
from village hall good views | underhill | 21/07/2019 |
Fron A40 toilets. Lovely late afternoon. After Pen y Fan etc. Walked up and ran down. | Rounsfell | 28/04/2019 |
Easy walk from the closed public convenience. The paths were muddy and in places carried a stream. Would guess in Summer this wouldn’t be the case. Once on the higher ground it was much drier and very pleasant. Summit was small rocky knoll near the plaque and sign board. Views were decent with a dusting of snow on the higher peaks. Returned by same route. Time taken 45 minutes for 2.6 miles. | isabelle | 17/03/2019 |
Parked at the car park on the A40 with WC sign, took bridleway straight up onto ridge then very pleasant walk along ridge with good path to summit. Surprised to find a field of friendly deer en route. Great views over all the Brecon Peaks from here. | JulieB | 02/01/2019 |
From village hall from where ancient footpath leads up the hill which was an Iron age fort. Allt in Welsh means wooded slope of the ridge just in case you like me were thinking Scottish & wondering where's the stream. Took about 45 minutes, good views. | rogreeves | 23/10/2018 |
done | outlawcatcher | 10/10/2018 |
From north starting at village hall at Pt202. Path all the way. A delightful hill, Beacon views all round, which well illustrates the case against height limits. | Topographer57 | 26/09/2018 |
Walked up from the lay-by on the A40 - toilets closed. A lovely little hill with splendid views to the Brecon Beacons to the S and Langorse lake to the N. A real summit achieved with little effort on good grassy paths. If this top was in the Lakes it would be thronged. | climbingkershaw | 15/09/2018 |
From layby on A40 following bridleway. Great views from the top. | Ramblingpaul | 20/07/2018 |
2/4 Marilyn day. The ascent of Allt yr Esgair from the tea shop lay by on the A40. A nice ridge walk with good views on a cloudless morning. A round trip of 4.4km in 1h15m. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 14/05/2018 |
With Shelagh and Maisie from the lay-by to the south. Took the bridleway through the woodland to the reservoir then back over the summit. Super walk with great views. | SteveG | 07/03/2018 |
A nice enough walk, starting up the sunken bridleway from the village hall, so no views until near the summit, but worth the wait. | Gill | 25/02/2018 |
2.5 mile out-and-back walk from layby with tea van south, easy well defined well signposted paths up to summit, this hill was a lot better than we were expecting, not bad summit and great views of the Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains. Lovely clear and sunny but cold. Earlier that day bagged May Hill, Gloucestershire, Waun Fach and Pen.Y.Gadair-Fawr again and later on bagged Craig Syfyrddin. | DanTrig | 23/02/2018 |
From the south. Parked just off the A40 at the turning for the venison farm. Very muddy footpath until onto the open hillside. Fantastic views from a lovely summit. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 21/01/2018 |
Fine views of Brecons, felt like sat in middle of them | nickywood1 | 29/11/2017 |
A pleasant stroll from the layby on the A40 just south of Talybont along the slopes and Llangors lake, returning over the summit. Mostly clear & sunny, no wind, a gorgeous day. | mickdavidson | 19/11/2017 |