Graig Syfyrddin Explained

Graig Syfyrddin
Elevation M:423
Prominence M:235
Parent Peak:Ysgyryd Fawr
Listing:Marilyn
Location:Monmouthshire, Wales
Range:Brecon Beacons
Grid Ref Uk:SO403210

Graig Syfyrddin or just The Graig, is a 423m high hill near Grosmont in north-eastern Monmouthshire, Wales. The summit knoll is known as Edmund's Tump. The hill consists of an isolated mass of the micaceous sandstones of the Brownstones Formation, a unit of the Old Red Sandstone well known from the nearby Black Mountains, of which it can be considered an outlier in both the geographical and geological sense.[1]

The Three Castles Walk,[2] a waymarked recreational walk in Monmouthshire linking Grosmont Castle, White Castle (Wales) and Skenfrith Castle passes over the hill.

External links

51.8844°N -2.8688°W

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Trig point on Edmund's Tump (C) Philip Halling . geograph.org.uk .
  2. Web site: Ysgyryd Fawr and Sugar Loaf (C) Philip Halling . geograph.org.uk .