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Vital Statistics:
| Length: | 12mls (19km) | |
| Ascent: | 2,409ft (734m) | |
| Time: | 6.75hrs | |
| Grade: |  | (Hard) |
Route outline for walk dn136:
- Bwlch Penbarras - The Offa's Dyke Path - Moel Famau - Moel Dywyll - Moel Llys-y-coed - Bwlch Arthur - Gronfoel Farm - Cilcain - Y Pentre - Crug Farm - Ffrith - Bryn Fynnon - Moel Famua Country Park - Bwlch Penbarras.
Points of Interest/Notes on this walk:
The Tower on top of Moel Famau was built to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of George III. It was wrecked by a storm in 1862
Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:
 0 Welsh Mountains |
 0 Wainwrights |
 0 Welsh Nuttalls |
 1 Welsh Dewey |
 0 Wainwright Outlying Fells |
 1 Welsh Marilyn |
 0 Bridgets |
The highest point of this walk is Moel Famau at 555m (1821ft). Moel Famau is the highest point in the county of Flintshire. Moel Famau is also known as a Welsh Dewey (78th in Wales, 138th in England & Wales)Moel Famau is classified as a Marilyn (65th highest in Wales, 859th highest in the UK).
For more details about what constitutes a Mountain and Mountain & Hill Classifications see: Peaks & Mountains.
For more details about peak bagging and how to record your achievements see: Peak Bagging.
This walk is on Ordnance Survey Maps:
| OS Explorer Map 265 | |
| 1:25,000 scale (Orange Covers) |
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| OS Landranger Map 116 | |
| 1:50,000 scale (Pink Covers) |
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Some Photos and Pictures from Walk dn136 Moel Famau and Moel Dywyll from Bwlch Penbarras
In no particular order . . .
Foel Fenlli and Bwlch Penbarras from The Offa's Dyke Path
on the summit of Moel Famau
Glyder Fach (centre left), Glyder Fawr (centre) and Tryfan (centre right) from Pen Llithrig y Wrach
The shoulder of Foel Fenlli and a distant Snowdonia from
The Offa's Dyke Path above Bwlch Penbarras
Moel Famau (centre) from the twin summit cairns on Moel Dywyll
on The Offa's Dyke Path
Name plaque in Cilcain celebrating the film of life of renown cellists Jacqueline Du Pre - a number of scenes of which were shot in Cilcain village
. . . load all 26 walk photos from Walk dn136 Moel Famau and Moel Dywyll from Bwlch Penbarras
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