Black Mountain
704 m in Herefordshire and Powys. The nearest trig pillar stands on Hay Bluff, 1.7 km away.
- Height
- 704 m
- Drop
- 155 m
- Position
- 52.01188, -3.08659
- DoBIH number
- 2242
The hill
836th of 2,342 by height.
704 m, with 155 m of drop — 1465th most prominent of the 2,342 hills on a list here. It is tall but not especially prominent: a high point on a bigger ridge rather than a hill standing alone. Classed as Marilyn, HuMP, Simm, Hewitt, Nuttall, historic county top, current county top and administrative county top.
On the ground
In the log book · page 73
The page for your Black Mountain day is already printed.
The contours around it, the historic county, height and rank, the three nearest county tops with their distance and bearing, and the lines to fill in: the date, companions, route, times and weather. One page for each of the 85, in a book that stays on the shelf long after the round is done.
A5 paperback · 85 top pages · A gift for anyone with a few tops done
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Summit pillar
No pillar on this summit.
The nearest stands on Hay Bluff, station SN94/40, 1.7 km away.
Pen-Y-BeaconAlso on
6 lists.
Nearby
Twelve pillars within ten kilometres.
- Pen-Y-BeaconSN94/40 · standing · 677 m1.7 km
- CraswallSO52/2 · standing · 641 m2.0 km
- Rhos DirionSN94/T57 · standing · 713 m4.8 km
- North DarenSO52/T50 · standing · 611 m5.3 km
- BonnylandsSO45/T6 · standing · 432 m5.4 km
- Urishay CommonSO52/T61 · standing · 329 m5.8 km
The six nearest are listed.