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| Name: | Mynydd Castlebythe |
| Hill number: | 5234 |
| Height: | 347m / 1138ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2208 Foel Cwmcerwyn |
| RHB Section: | 31C: South-West Wales |
| County/UA: | Pembrokeshire [Sir Benfro] |
| Catchment: | Cleddau |
| Class: | Hump, Tump (300-399m), Clem (Hu,Tu,3,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | SN 02874 29652 |
| Summit feature: | trig point on tumulus |
| Drop: | 116m |
| Col: | 231m SN058299  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 145 157 158 (1:25k) OL35E |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 62 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Easy parking on road to west. Short walk up hill to summit with Joe and Tom. Nice summit, all around views. | fnem | 30/08/2023 |
| Easy ascent from the road to the west before a ferry crossing to Ireland. We followed easy trails through the heather to reach the summit. Ok views from top but the haze restricted far reaching views. | DanTrig | 10/06/2023 |
| Parked west. Easy walk up to tumuli and trig surrounded by short heather. From the top I saw a fox hopping through the heather. Nice clear and calm morning. | Herbert Anchovy | 18/04/2022 |
| In heavy rain and strong winds. Not much visibility so chose to follow the first track sheep track I found, heading due South from start of access land when approaching from Vaynor Isaf. Part of a circular walk from New Inn. | AdSonic74 | 24/12/2021 |
| Easy parking on wide verge with some hardstanding to W. at SN 0207 2979 - Faint path/sheep trod up wide grass strip between areas of bracken, rough pasture & heather to trig point on tumulus. (S) | gerrybowes | 18/07/2021 |
| As nordicstar: from minor road to NW. Good off road parking near gate then cut line up through heather and grass leads to near summit trig. | PGCE | 18/07/2021 |
| With Jenx and Bryher up from minor road to NW. good off road parking near gate then cut line up through heather and grass leads to near summit trig. Another fine viewpoint, just as rain started to return | nordicstar | 03/04/2019 |
| Good parking spot and easy mown way to the top from 251 spot height. | jenx | 03/04/2019 |
| From Castlebythe, up via narrow strip of access land (not a good idea) and back down main access area. | rhalstead | 09/03/2019 |
| Seems like a fine hill, shame it was the middle of the night so I couldn't appreciate the view. | Alex C | 09/02/2019 |
| From the 251m spotheight. In mist and very light drizzle but good underfoot. Solo. | bolton | 01/01/2019 |
| From 02070 29808 as tim747. There is a clear path straight up to within a few yards of the summit trig. | clivevilla | 16/07/2018 |
| Easy stroll east over cut Heather from gated moorland road with free range pigs! trig on one of several tumuli . Nice views over surrounding very green fields in valley. | Denise | 21/09/2016 |
| An easy ascent on moorland track from unfenced road. | RichardM | 21/09/2016 |
| Noted this fitted in with driving/bagging between Garn Fawr and The Gower. Parked at 251 m. spot height on narrow road between Castlebythe and Rosebush. Then straight up, following mown strip, to trig point/ summit. | pwheeler | 29/04/2016 |
| circular day walk from Rosebush from road NW on to Cilciffeth | underhill | 07/08/2015 |
| Second visit but Chris's first. Very easy along grassy track from minor road to west | Colin Crawford | 28/06/2015 |
| Same route as Tim. Nice grassy stroll right to the trig. | chriswatson | 21/05/2015 |
| Parked by gate at 0207029808. Followed the mowed bits to avoid the freshly burnt areas. | tim747 | 28/04/2015 |
| 6/7 drive past Mynydd Castleblythe to west, follow narrow road to where there is parking. than follow freshly cut track through heather. At crossroads in track turn left to trig pillar at top | Fergalh | 27/01/2015 |
| From highest point on minor road to W, then almost due E over rough heather, gorse, long grass to higher of 2 barrows at summit, topped with a trig pillar. | jonglew | 31/08/2014 |
| park to NW of hill at a place where there is a large area off the verge of the very narrow road. up over moor to the column which appears to be built on a mound. | arranc | 12/09/2013 |
| Parking by gate to W. Narrow footpath through bracken then indistinct through gorse and long grass. | destaylor | 12/11/2011 |
| Parked as others. | chrisbien | 11/05/2011 |
| Parking at 251 spot height. Top has been burnt off making walk to top unpleasant. | PeteF | 22/07/2010 |
| Visiting pillar | Dusty | 04/07/2010 |
| Parked in small area to the north west. No proper path so best to do early in the year when the heather is still low. | andrew brown | 26/04/2010 |
| Direct from SN 021 298. No path. Not grazed for a long while so heather deep and difficult. | summitsup | 22/09/2009 |
| TB testing at Griffiths, Parc-Y-Delyn, so romped up heather and snow from west after doing TT1. On detached duty at Carmarthen | Dugswell2 | 10/02/2009 |
| pleasant hill & view. cross deep heather e.g. from road to WNW | RHW | 05/09/1998 |
| Halfdecent | 17/06/2023 | |
| malcorbett | 04/09/2022 | |
| BaggerGutt | 28/02/2022 | |
| Rob50 | 20/10/2021 | |
| Adrian | 12/06/2021 | |
| Lucky | 09/10/2019 | |
| maknipe | 09/10/2019 | |
| thenomad | 26/09/2018 | |
| TREBORK | 05/07/2018 | |
| abbo0001 | 12/06/2018 | |
| GaryJones | 18/09/2017 | |
| MM | 05/05/2017 | |
| Neil Haslewood | 23/10/2016 | |
| Chris Peart | 28/06/2015 | |
| carole engel | 17/05/2015 | |
| AndyS | 02/01/2015 | |
| Alan Whatley | 23/08/2014 | |
| Cas11235 | 18/07/2014 | |
| Hetty | 22/06/2014 | |
| Rob Pen y Garn | 12/05/2014 |