Waun Fach is the highest mountain

Mountain

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 in the Black Mountains

Black Mountains, Wales

The Black Mountains are a group of hills spread across parts of Powys and Monmouthshire in southeast Wales, and extending across the national border into Herefordshire, England. They are the easternmost of the four ranges of hills that comprise the Brecon Beacons National Park, and are frequently...

 in south-eastern Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

. It is one of the three Marilyns

Marilyn (hill)

A Marilyn is a mountain or hill in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland or Isle of Man with a relative height of at least 150 metres , regardless of absolute height or other merit...

 over 600m that make up the range, the others being Black Mountain

Black Mountain (hill)

Twyn Llech also known as Black Mountain is a mountain in the Black Mountains . It is the only Marilyn to fall exactly on the Welsh-English border, straddling Powys and Herefordshire...

 and Mynydd Troed

Mynydd Troed

Mynydd Troed is a hill in the Black Mountains of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Powys, south Wales. It lies 3 miles south of Talgarth and 2 miles northeast of the village of Llangors on the western side of the range...

. To the north Rhos Fawr

Rhos Fawr

Rhos Fawr or Great Rhos is a mountain in Mid Wales, and is the highest point on the Radnor Forest rock dome.The summit is located on a broad heathery plateau, which is separated from Black Mixen: the eastern plateau summit, by the cwm of Harvey Dingle...

 and the Radnor Forest

Radnor Forest

Radnor Forest is a rock dome in Mid Wales, and a forest only in the mediæval sense of an unenclosed area used for hunting . The highest point is Great Rhos or Rhos Fawr, a broad featureless plateau which reaches , and a similar plateau adjoining to the east, Black Mixen is the only Nuttall to...

 can be seen.

It is situated at the head of the Grwyne Fechan valley, above and to the west of the Grwyne Fawr reservoir http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/135959. It has an undistinguished (and almost indistinguishable http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/23972) rounded summit http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/23971. The nearby tops on the ridge, Pen Trumau and Pen y Gadair Fawr

Pen y Gadair Fawr

Pen y Gadair Fawr is a subsidiary summit of Waun Fach and the second highest peak in the Black Mountains in south-eastern Wales. Pen y Gadair Fawr is a much more distinguished top than its parent....

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/327184, although lower, are very much more recognisable.

External links

• Computer generated summit panoramas Waun Fach Index
• www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Waun Fach and surrounding area