Caety Traylow

Rising above the quiet Radnorshire countryside, this rounded, grassy moorland summit offers a sense of isolation typical of Central Wales. Its broad, windswept plateau provides an excellent vantage point over the Radnor Forest massif, overlooking the deep valleys and conifer plantations that define this understated and infrequently visited upland area.

• •The name is a derivation of the Welsh Cae-ty-trelo, which translates as 'the field of the house of Trelo,' suggesting the site of a long-abandoned upland farmstead or shepherd's cottage.
• •It sits within the Radnor Forest, a region that served as a Royal Hunting Forest in the Middle Ages; at the time, the term 'forest' referred to a legal hunting preserve rather than a landscape necessarily covered in trees.
• •From the summit, the view stretches across the rolling mid-Wales hills to the distinctive flat-topped ridges of the Black Mountains in the southeast and the remote, water-carved plateaus of the Elan Valley to the west.
• •While the nearby Radnor Range is used for ballistics testing, the most explosive thing a walker is typically required to navigate is the occasional disgruntled red grouse launching itself from the heather.