Wales
Walks and hills in Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons)
Sweeping grassy escarpments, waterfalls and the highest ground in southern Britain.
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Table Mountain and Pen Cerrig-calch from Crickhowell
Crickhowell
15.2 km · 730 m · 4.5–6.5 h
Guides featuring Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons)
All guides- Guide · 8 walksWalks near Cardiff you can do by trainEight walks from the capital with a station or a bus stop at the start, from the Taff to the top of Pen y Fan.
- Guide · 5 walksThe best waterfall walks in WalesWales has more good waterfalls per mile than anywhere in Britain. These five walks take in the finest, from Waterfall Country to the source of the Severn.
- Guide · 10 walksWinter walks that don't need an ice axeTen hills that give you a proper winter day, big skies, frost and all, without the snow and ice that turn walking into mountaineering.
Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) at a glance
28 routes and 26 Hewitts, with Pen y Fan the highest at 886 m.
Good first walks
- Twmpa from Darren Lwyd · 2.7 km · 150 m
- Chwarel y Fan from Yr Eithen · 2.8 km · 260 m
- Fan Gyhirych from A4067 lay-by · 2.9 km · 350 m
By train, bus or ferry
- Pen y Fan from Pont ar Daf · 6.5 km · 450 m
- Table Mountain and Pen Cerrig-calch from Crickhowell · 15.2 km · 730 m
- Rhossili and Worm's Head · 7.2 km · 320 m
Big days out
- Table Mountain and Pen Cerrig-calch from Crickhowell · 15.2 km · 730 m
- Pen y Fan and Cribyn from the Taf Fechan · 14.7 km · 700 m
- Fan Brycheiniog and Picws Du from Llyn y Fan Fach · 8.8 km · 560 m
Highest hills
- Pen y Fan · 886 m
- Waun Fach · 811 m
- Twr y Fan Foel (Fan Brycheiniog) · 803 m
- Pen y Gadair Fawr · 800 m
- Cribyn · 794 m
26 hills in Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons)
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- Pen y Fan886 m
- Waun Fach811 m
- Fan Brycheiniog - Twr y Fan Foel803 m
- Pen y Gadair Fawr800 m
- Cribyn794 m
- Waun Rydd769 m
- Fan Hir760 m
- Bannau Sir Gaer - Picws Du749 m
- Fan Fawr734 m
- Fan Gyhirych726 m
- Pen Allt-mawr720 m
- Black Mountain704 m
- Pen Cerrig-calch702 m
- Twmpa689 m
- Chwarel y Fan679 m
- Fan Nedd663 m
- Mynydd Llysiau662 m
- Drygarn Fawr644 m
- Garreg Las634 m
- Fan Llia632 m
- Craig Cerrig-gleisiad629 m
- Fan Frynych628 m
- Cefn yr Ystrad617 m
- Garreg Lwyd616 m
- Gorllwyn613 m
- Pen y Garn611 m