| Name: | Halkyn Mountain |
| Hill number: | 14613 |
| Height: | 293.8m / 964ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2051 Mynydd y Cwm [Coed Cwm] |
| County/UA: | Flintshire [Sir Fflint] |
| Topographical area: | WN07 Gamelin-famau |
| SMC/RHB section: | 30C: Llandudno to Wrexham |
| Catchment: | Dee (Flint) |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
| Grid ref: | SJ 19574 71926 |
| Summit feature: | ground 2m south of trig point |
| Drop: | 31m |
| Col: | 262.8m SJ 2036 7085  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 116 (1:25k) 265 |
| Observations: | ground 100m SE is lower |
| Survey: | Leica NA730/Leica GS15 Survey of Halkyn Mountain.pdf |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 65 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| En route to Dinorwic. Lovely hill. | Alfa1M | 17/08/2024 |
| Primarily came here for trig point, although it's not on the OS map. | desperate dan | 02/05/2024 |
| Revisit whilst bagging sub-tumps in the area. Very windy. | Richard Gunn | 15/04/2024 |
| 4th hill of 6 on a traverse from Mold to Holywell. After Moel Y Gaer I continued Nnw past various relics from quarrying, heading West of the Wireless station and passing just West of the hamlet of Windmill. I headed Nw not far from there to climb upto the Trig pillar and top nearby. I descended to an area that is called Shafts on the OS map and had a food and coffee break before continuing for Cefn... | Dazingdale | 10/02/2024 |
| An interesting hill with lots of fenced off mine shafts. I would have been surprised to find a trig point if I hadn't read the other blogs beforehand, as it isn't shown on my maps. | Alan Moore | 07/02/2024 |
| 2/8 (Cefn/Halkyn Mountain/Elysian Hill/Hawkstone Hill/Grotto Hill/Chirk Green Hill/Caergwrle Castle/Moel Y Park) | Fergalh | 17/09/2023 |
| Parked on grass to NE up track and then across to trig and HP. Good views. | PeterD | 12/08/2022 |
| I parked near the quarry at SJ 20830 70026, and took a track west up to the summit of Copa'r Frân, then various tracks across the heath and up to the summit of Halkyn Mountain. Returned much the same way. Hot & sunny, with a refreshing NW breeze. Solo. 5.1km, with 75m of ascent. | Man of Kernow1 | 22/06/2022 |
| Fine viewpoint in short grass and gorse, short walk from road with parking on un fenced grass. Surprised to find unmapped trig. | Denise | 10/04/2022 |
| A short walk from the road to NE. Easy parking on unfenced road. Short grass and gorse in area of old and new quarry/mine workings. Good views. Surprised to find a trig pillar at the summit, for a moment thought we'd gone to the wrong place! | RichardM | 10/04/2022 |
| Parked in lay-by on E. side of junction at SJ 1948 7231 - From junction, grassy track to trig point. Fine viewpoint. (S) | gerrybowes | 20/03/2022 |
| from n with winnie | underhill | 03/03/2022 |
| Orienteering training on Halkyn, called in at summit trig. | JK | 23/08/2020 |
| From nw. Great views. | Campbell Singer | 06/11/2019 |
| From Moel y Gaer strolled across the common with Ed to Halkyn Mountain and back. Pleasant enough but not worth repeating. | John Eley | 07/09/2019 |
| From junction to NW - great views- shame about the pylons | Mark Sims | 30/05/2019 |
| Easy walk from the NW following the pylons. Good views of the Dee Estuary. | clivevilla | 16/05/2019 |
| Parked SJ193722. Short stroll following pylons at first. | David Evans | 30/12/2018 |
| Easy bag from nearby layby. Fine views. | David Bremner | 01/11/2018 |
| Me and Alf. | jrj | 23/01/2018 |
| Parked at crossroads to N, short walk up road towards Windmill then straight up hillside at obvious track. | Aye Jimmy | 26/11/2017 |
| P near T jnct to N. Track virtually to top. | chrisbien | 07/06/2017 |
| Circular walk from the lovely Blue Bell Inn in Halkyn. Spring weather, fantastic views from these modest hills, lots of flowering gorse. Moel-y-Gaer, Moel Ffagnallt and Halkyn Mountain | Lazylizzie | 20/04/2017 |
| Fine morning with good views on common land - part of Westminster estate | JohnIvor | 30/12/2016 |
| Highly enjoyable wander round Halkyn Common,including grand viewpoints of Moel-Ffagnallt and Halkyn Common.With Oscar and Catman. | rosiebridge | 29/10/2016 |
| With Bridget and Catman. | oscarrosie | 29/10/2016 |
| With Oscar and Bridget. | catman | 29/10/2016 |
| Roadside bagging with Dugswell. | Smudge | 13/11/2015 |
| Parked to the NW then walked up the bridleway to bag Billins trig point which isn't shown on the map. | Dugswell2 | 13/11/2015 |
| Short stroll from E | RobertP | 09/08/2015 |
| Parked in Halkyn opposite Bluebell Inn at SJ 20948 70270. Followed B5123 south for 200m, then various tracks NNW over access land past Windmill village to the summit. Visited 290m contour ring to the south-east, which appeared to be lower. Walk continued to Moel y Gaer. Nordic walk, in sunshine but strong south-west wind. | Man of Kernow1 | 28/06/2015 |
| Great hill area: Track from NW to trig point | GordonAdshead | 28/02/2015 |
| From SJ193722. | summitsup | 15/10/2014 |
| If P30s are your quarry... | Martin R | 22/03/2014 |
| limestone pavement, fine views. FP from minor road to N | RHW | 19/01/2002 |
| My father said I have done this! | Play2End | 01/08/1972 |
| With Chester Rambling Club. From Flint along paths and country roads to Pentre Halkyn and then Halkyn Mountain. Through Rhes-y-cae to Moel Ffagallt and Moel y Gaer. On to Rhosesmor and return to Flint. | pwbellarby | 13/05/1962 |
| paulsross | 13/01/2024 | |
| PM | 10/12/2023 | |
| Matt | 05/12/2022 | |
| Halfdecent | 06/11/2022 | |
| Man of Kernow2 | 22/06/2022 | |
| andrew brown | 24/09/2020 | |
| DC11main | 23/09/2020 | |
| Cumbriancyclist | 07/02/2020 | |
| johnbarnard25 | 20/01/2020 | |
| TREBORK | 21/06/2018 | |
| MM | 26/05/2018 | |
| KM | 26/05/2018 | |
| TK | 01/01/2018 |