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Brecon Beacons National Park sign. The Brecon Beacons National Park was established in 1957, [27] the third of the three Welsh parks after Snowdonia in 1951 [28] and the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in 1952. [29] It covers an area of 519 square miles (1,340 km 2), which is much larger than the Brecon Beacons range.
The Brecon Beacons National Park was established in 1957, [15] the third of the three Welsh parks after Snowdonia in 1951 [16] and the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in 1952. [17] It covers an area of 519 square miles (1,340 km 2), which is much larger than the Brecon Beacons range.
The area gained national park status in 1957 with the designated area of 1,344 km 2 (519 sq mi) including mountain massifs to both the east and west of the Brecon Beacons proper. The geology of the national park consists of a thick succession of sedimentary rocks laid down from the late Ordovician through the Silurian and Devonian to the late ...
Corn Du is a summit of the twin topped Pen y Fan and the second highest peak in South Wales at 871.5 m (2,864 ft), situated in the Brecon Beacons National Park.The summit itself is marked by a well structured Bronze Age cairn with a central burial cist like that on nearby Pen y Fan.
The National Park stretches across parts of seven separate principal areas (counties or county boroughs of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Carmarthenshire, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Powys and Rhondda Cynon Taf) and there are SSSIs within the National Park sectors of each of them except for Caerphilly. A few SSSIs straddle the boundaries between ...
Llyn Cwm Llwch (Welsh: [ɬɪn kʊm ɬuːχ]) is a small lake or pool in the Brecon Beacons National Park in Powys, Wales.It is between 1 and 2 acres: much smaller than the two glacial lakes in the west of the Black Mountain (range): Llyn y Fan Fawr and Llyn y Fan Fach, and one of the few natural bodies of water in the park.
Mountain passes of the Brecon Beacons National Park (1 P) Mountain ranges of the Brecon Beacons National Park (4 C, 4 P) Mountains and hills of the Brecon Beacons National Park (4 P)
Brecon Beacons National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog) – founded in 1957, stretching from Llandeilo in the west to Hay-on-Wye in the east, covering 1,344 square kilometres (519 sq mi) [4] and encompassing four main regions – the Black Mountain in the west, Fforest Fawr and the Brecon Beacons in the centre, and the Black ...