Tag: wales
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Parc Cenedlaethol Glyndŵr National Park
Choice of name (Glyndŵr National Park) for the new North East Wales National Park, and the Statutory Consultation
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The new Moel Famau cafe, that isn’t
This morning, Denbighshire County Council Planning Committee have approved (by 13 votes to 3) plans to build a visitor hub at the start of the main path to Moel Famau in the Clwydian Range & Dee Valley National Landscape (formerly AONB), at the ‘top car park’ at Bwlch Penbarras. The building will include information displays,…
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Bannau Sir Gâr – the Carmarthenshire Fans
At the western end of Bannau Brycheiniog (the Brecon Beacons), in a very quiet corner reached only by minor roads, there’s a glorious ridge where 4 peaks sit majestically above the glacial lakes of Llyn y Fan Fawr and Llyn y Fan Fach. They’re dissected by the county boundary, so that only 2 of the…
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Mitchell’s Fold, Corndon Hill and Lan Fawr
Welsh speakers have a phrase ‘Mwynder Maldwyn’, which translates roughly as ‘the mildness of Montgomeryshire’, to describe the gently rolling hills that cover most of the old county. On the border between Wales and England though, where they merge with the Shropshire Hills near the Stiperstones, they get a bit rougher round the edges, and…
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Wales’ Sustainable Farming Scheme. Pick a side
Last week, the University of Exeter published the results of a survey for North Wales Wildlife Trust about the re-introduction of beavers in Wales. Around 80% were in favour. But the survey also asked people how much they knew about beavers. 10% responded with ‘nothing’, but that hadn’t apparently deterred them taking part in a…
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Coed Llandegla and Cyrn y Brain
Cyrn y Brain is the 2nd highest point (behind Moel y Gamelin) in the Clwydian Range & Dee Valley AONB.
moel a mynydd - hill & mountain 