| Name: | Beacon Hill |
| Hill number: | 2183 |
| Height: | 547m / 1795ft |
| County/UA: | Powys |
| Topographical area: | WM03 Pegwn-beacon |
| SMC/RHB section: | 31B: Welshpool to Hay-on-Wye |
| Catchment: | Severn, Catchment Boundaries, Wye |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Dodd (500-599m), Dewey, Clem (Ma,Hu,Tu,5,Dew,Cm) |
| Grid ref: | SO 17647 76799 |
| Summit feature: | trig point |
| Drop: | 179m |
| Col: | 368m SO071842  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 136 148 (1:25k) 214E |
| Survey: | obvious summit |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 255 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From the Dutlas phonebox. | squeegs | 06/09/2024 |
| From the high point and track all the way. | iangalbraith | 22/07/2024 |
| Room for a couple of cars at the road high point to the W at the 406 spot height. Followed the ROW around Stanky Hill and an atv track from the eastern side cross tracks directly to the trig. Limited views with an impending rain shower rapidly closing in. Windy. Solo. | richard69 | 04/06/2024 |
| Stanky Hill, Beacon Hill and Pool Hill. In mist. Mostly good paths. With Jill. Parked at 406m point on minor road to west. | Dangerous Dave | 08/02/2024 |
| Part of a walk from Llangunllo to Beguildy Beacon | satterthwaite | 01/02/2024 |
| Parked by the derelict house by the phonebox at Dutlas (may not be derelict for much longer as being done up). Up bridleway opposite, steep climb onto open access land, then lovely walk on Green grassy tracks to summit. Off path to Fron Barn, below Fron rocks, past Penlan, along minor road then back up B Road to car. 7 miles nice walk. Final Welsh marilyn had prosecco and chocolate orange to celebrate on summit. | JulieB | 04/01/2024 |
| From road at SO 152 765 | JGC | 11/11/2023 |
| From road to west, following good tracks to Stanky Hill, Beacon Hill and Pool Hill. Good view at top. | PeterD | 02/03/2023 |
| Room for two cars at 15278 76502 then immediately accessed the footpath opposite. We went up Black Mountain then Beacon Hill and Fron Rocks before visiting Pool Hill including a detour to visit the source of the river Lugg and then finally Stanky Hill. Easy high level moorland walk with far reaching views. With Bob Sewell. | Peterb | 02/03/2023 |
| Parked in Felindre and walked straight up in the snowy fields. Pub not open unfortunately. With Sally_777 her first Marilyn | Stevooo | 22/01/2023 |
| Parked in Flindre. Took 4 hours up and down, quite snowy ground. Lots of sheep on route and came across a herd af cows, didn't get too close! | Sally_777 | 21/01/2023 |
| Parked on verge next to bw to the west. Grand day and views. Just bagged Stanky Hill but didn't bother across and back to Pool Hill which looks better as a separate walk from south. Plus i had a long drive back home afterwards. | Nick Canute | 10/10/2022 |
| Mountain biked up from Knucklas. | Rob Rees | 27/04/2022 |
| Circular walk from Pennant via Fron Rocks. | Winterfloodian | 27/08/2021 |
| Starting from Pool Hill, I dropped down east to pick up a track. I then forked right on a track that dips and then climbs towards Beacon Hill. Turned left on another track that leads up to the summit trig column. | Amplifier | 09/07/2021 |
| Great day with Stevie n Tay and Yeltzbagger. | ketzster | 09/06/2021 |
| First hill bag walk of 2021! Part of a long loop from the Lawn Brook valley ( verge parking for 3-4 cars at SO 1997 7606 ). Pool Hill - Cynwch Bank - Rhos Crug - Stanky Hill - Gors Lydan - Warren Hill - Ty'n y ddol Hill - Beacon Hill. Glorious weather. | DanMaisieBex | 24/04/2021 |
| 1 x verge parking at SO152764. bridleway ENE to bwlch, Glyndwr's Way to pt477, bridleway ENE to top. | Isbjorn | 16/04/2021 |
| park SO 15300 76443 some signs not to park on bwlch road but verge parking possible, beacon hill, pool hill, stanky hill, back to bwlch, past bwlch gwyn farm which does not look occupied, warren hill, gors lydan return same way 4 hours about 17ks, easy navigation and walking | underhill | 09/12/2020 |
| Black Mountain > Stanky Hill > Beacon Hill [Beguildy Beacon S5209] > Pool Hill from GR: SO 15278 76502 | ronaldo333 | 19/09/2020 |
| Black Mountain > Stanky Hill > Beacon Hill [Beguildy Beacon S5209] > Pool Hill from GR: SO 15278 76502 | Hippster | 19/09/2020 |
| Walked up from Dutlas following paths and tracks. Lovely hill. | Ramblingpaul | 30/08/2020 |
| Easy walk from the high point of the road to the West | prwild | 24/08/2020 |
| 3/5 Dewey walk across these straightforward but pleasant hills using the many good tracks; from the road summit at SO 152 795(very limited roadside parking. Visited Stanky Hill, Pool Hill, Rhos-crug (Sub Dewey),Beacon Hill, Warren Hill and Gors Lydan. Took in Tylcau Hill on return. 25km with 700m ascent in 6 hours. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 01/08/2020 |
| From high point west on minor road. Up tracks, linking to Glyndwr Way then path to summit trig. 2/2 fine clear, and dry wind picking up just before storm. | N.Morters | 08/02/2020 |
| From the West on a horribly muddy bridleway, then Glyndwr's Way, and a grassy track to the summit. | NormanW | 04/10/2019 |
| Trig S5209 very gentle breeze, high very thin clouds | vegibagger | 30/04/2019 |
| Trig visit. | chalky1953 | 23/09/2018 |
| Steady climb along a good track partly following part of Glyndwr;s Way. Started from a small road to the west of the hills | granddadscott | 09/08/2018 |
| 6/6 Marilyn day. Beacon Hill from the road summit to the west at the end of a long Marilyn bagging day. Also visited Deweys Stanky Hill and Pool Hill enroute. 9km in 2 hours. (S) | silveracorn_alan | 08/08/2018 |
| From the col SO152764 on the Crossways - Felindre road. Roadside parking. Track all the way to the summit with Elizyanne | GmacT | 18/07/2018 |
| Straight forward track leads you up. | elizyanne | 18/07/2018 |
| Second Dewey of five starting from the lay by outside Llangunllo station, route also took in Pool hill, Stanky hill, Warren hill, Gors Lydan, 19.5 mile in just under seven hours. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 07/07/2018 |
| Showery day so avoided Pool Hill, but watched the hunt as they were out for a ride today. On the way home from South Wales | nickywood1 | 02/12/2017 |
| From Dutlas, a round of Beacon Hill, Stanky Hill and Pool Hill. | rhalstead | 07/10/2017 |
| With: hb; Followed the bridle track from layby at SO210776 on B4355 at Dutlas. Steep pull up then lovely path through bracken and heather all the way to the summit trig. 600th Marilyn summit and our third today. Fantastic 360 views in glorious sunshine. Met owners of the pub in Felindre on top. Returned by same route. | Ian Baines | 28/08/2017 |
| With: ib; | Helen Baines | 28/08/2017 |
| A pleasant and spacious round of Beacon Hill, Pool Hill and Stanky Hill from the col on the Crossways - Felindre road. | Nick Down1 | 04/06/2017 |
| Bridleways from the west. Trig point obvious summit. | Topographer57 | 07/04/2017 |
| Parked at The Farm to the east and nice steady plod up. | Alan Caine | 25/03/2017 |
| Could just about see the whole of Mid Wales from the trig on this delightful spring morning. | Alex C | 25/03/2017 |
| A perfect sunny day in excellent company (Steve and Alex). Parked at Ty'n-y-Rhos, bridleway to Rhydhir, then direct to Pool Hill (friendly farmer). Beacon Hill, Stanky Hill, Cefn Pawl, then down to Llanrhys. Short road bash then Warren Hill and Gors Lydan. Short heather bash to track and road, then via Newhouse Farm to Tylcau Hill. 21 km, 840 m and wonderfully easy going makes an easily do-able round | Gill | 25/03/2017 |
| Plus the two deweys from the west. | cjo | 25/03/2017 |
| 2 of 7 from Ty'n-y-rhos with Gill and Alex | SteveG | 25/03/2017 |
| The farmer to the East kindly allowed us to park near the bridge from where its a pleasant walk up to this Marilyn top and trig. In the equally pleasant company of Duncan. Bumped into some fellow baggers near the top as we were exploring an alternative way down. | Father Ted | 25/03/2017 |
| From minor road to W. Good tracks. Combined with Stankey and Pool Hills. | jonglew | 24/03/2017 |
| KJF from road summit to West | crazy | 28/10/2016 |
| From Cefn Pawl to the north. On to access land and to the top. Down west to Glyndwrs Way | Alan Moore | 17/08/2016 |
| With Trefor. From West. First of 5 Marilyns today. | mike.hoult | 12/05/2016 |
| 2/13 Second of thirteen on misty and sunny day (Stanky Hill/Beacon Hill/Pool Hill/Cynwch Bank/Rhos-Crug/Warren Hill/Tylcau Hill/Gors Lydan/Cefn Pawl/Ty'n-y-ddol/Pen Cnych Mawr/Crugn Lywyd/Domen-Ddu) | Fergalh | 07/05/2016 |