Rhos Fawr map

Rhos Fawr

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662 m

Elevation

Elevation is the altitude of a place
above sea level.

376 m

Prominence

Peak’s prominence is the least
vertical to be covered to get from the
summit to any other higher terrain.

Proportional Prominence 531 m

About

Rhos Fawr is a mountain summit in the Radnor Forest (Mid Wales), a rather isolated dome of hills to the north of the village of New Radnor. The local rocks are sedimentary shales and mudstones with some Silurian limestone. With a height of 660 metres (2,170 ft), it is the highest point in the Radnor Forest and the historic county top of Radnorshire.

The summit is located on a broad heathery plateau, which is separated from Black Mixen: the eastern plateau summit, by the cwm of Harvey Dingle. To the west is Drygarn Fawr and Gorllwyn, to the northwest Plynlimon, to the north Beacon Hill and the Clun Forest (Shropshire), and to the south the Black Mountains.

There is a prominent trig point at the summit, and a very useful landmark for walkers on the broad and featureless summit plateau.

There's a trail leading to the summit.

By elevation Rhos Fawr is

# 52 out of 930 in Powys

By prominence Rhos Fawr is

# 23 out of 3092 in the Wales Mountains
# 4 out of 930 in Powys
# 23 out of 3083 in Wales