Newydd Fynyddog

About Newydd Fynyddog

Rising above the historic village of Llan, Newydd Fynyddog is a classic mid-Wales hump that offers expansive views of the Dyfi Valley. It’s a modest Marilyn that lacks the jagged ego of Snowdonia but makes up for it with peaceful, albeit frequently soggy, moorland charm.

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• •The hill overlooks the original site of Llanbrynmair, which relocated to the valley floor in the 19th century once the new turnpike road and railway made uphill living fashionably inconvenient.
• •With a summit height of 427 meters and sufficient prominence, it is classified as a Marilyn, proving that size isn't everything as long as you have a decent drop on all sides.
• •The area is crisscrossed by ancient drovers' tracks, which were the primary highways for moving Welsh livestock to English markets long before the A470 existed.
• •From the top, you can survey the vast Cambrian Mountains, a region often called the 'Green Desert of Wales' due to its sparse population and abundance of disinterested sheep.
• •Summiting this fell involves a high-stakes game of 'guess the path,' where every promising trail eventually narrows into a sheep-sized dead end designed specifically to mock your map-reading skills.