Castell y Gwynt (in middle-ground) from Glyder Fach summit plateau, with Glyder Fawr behind (extreme right)
Highest point
Elevation
972 m (3,189 ft)
Prominence
16 m (52 ft)
Parent peak
Glyder Fach
Listing
Nuttall
Naming
English translation
castle of the wind
Language of name
Welsh
Geography
Location
Snowdonia, Wales
Parent range
Glyderau
OS grid
SH656583
Topo map
OS Landranger 115
Castell y Gwynt is a top of Glyder Fach in Snowdonia, north-west Wales. It has the merit of being the only 3000 ft Welsh summit classed as only a Nuttall, hence it is not included in the Welsh 3000s. It has a prominence of 15.7 m (51.5 ft), and was only included on the Nuttall's list after re-surveying in 2007. The top is more famous as a feature than a summit.
"Castell y Gwynt" and the "Cantilever Stone" featured in Walt Disney's Dragonslayer.[1]
^Nuttall, John & Anne (1999). The Mountains of England & Wales - Volume 1: Wales (2nd edition). Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone. ISBN 1-85284-304-7.
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Another notable feature, west of the summit, is CastellyGwynt, a spiky rocky outcrop. Bristly Ridge (Welsh: Y Grib Bigog) is a scramble in Snowdonia. It...
their traverse. There is also an option to include a sixteenth top, CastellyGwynt in the Glyder range, which has been reclassified as a Nuttall since...
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metres (912 ft) and the B4329 NE-SW, reaching 404 metres (1,325 ft) at Bwlch-gwynt (translation: windy gap). These, and a number of other minor roads and lanes...
and a modern slate roof, which was much altered in the 19th century. Bryn Gwynt and Pen yr Ogof, examples of 'Moonlight Cottages'. In the 17th and 18th...
overlooks the village. Plas Tan y Bwlch has its own halt - Plas Halt - on the Ffestiniog Railway, and nearby Tan-y-Bwlch railway station is the railway's...
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