Black Mixen

Black Mixen

Black Mixen and the communications mast from the Rhos Fawr plateau
Elevation 650 m (2,133 ft)
Parent peak Rhos Fawr
Listing Hewitt, Nuttall,
Location
Location Powys,  Wales
Range Cambrian Mountains
Topo map OS Landranger 148
OS grid SO182639

Black Mixen (Welsh: Micsen Du) is a subsidiary summit of Rhos Fawr or Great Rhos, in the Radnor Forest. The summit is large peat bog plateau. The summit is marked with a cairn, and is next to a radio transmitter and its building.[1]

Black Mixen is the only Nuttall to have a communications mast (a radio transmitter) on its summit [2]. To the east is Bache Hill, to the south are the Black Mountains, to the west is the Great Rhos plateau.

References

  1. ^ Nuttall, John & Anne (1999). The Mountains of England & Wales - Volume 1: Wales (2nd edition ed.). Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone. ISBN 1-85284-304-7.
  2. ^ "Pumlumon". http://www.mountains-snowandrock.org.uk/Wales/pumlumon.php. Retrieved 2007-04-22. 

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