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Name:Hay Bluff
Hill number:2247
Height:677m / 2221ft
Parent (Ma):2242  Black Mountain
RHB Section:32A: Llandovery to Monmouth
Nuttall/Wainwright area:Black Mountains
County/UA:Powys
Catchment:Wye
Class:Bridge, Deleted Nuttall
(Bg,xN)
Grid ref:SO 24434 36633
Summit feature:trig point
Drop:11m
Col:666m  SO250361  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 161
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Ascent from Gospel Pass Stone circle en route to Black Mountain. Prominent trig point surrounded by a moat! Cold, but bright and good visibility. Great views of the Black Mountains and Pen y FanCumbriancyclist16/10/2023
Mega 23 and a half kilometer walk one way traverse with Dave Ballinger from pass at 550m all the way back to his car at 141mvegibagger12/10/2023
12 mile loop with Adam and Peggy, start from Black Hilldavecnash11/08/2023
Sarah and Tim PolkRob Rees26/04/2023
Solosimon and co20/02/2023
Parked at Gospel Pass. Up to Twmpa, along the Darren Lwyd ridge and down to Capel y ffin, before climbing back up to ODP on the ridge and Black Mountain South top, Black Mountain and Hay Bluff. Very windy and in & out of the cloud on the ridges but largely dry. With Gillian. One of my very first wild camps was on Hay Bluff, many years ago.richard6904/01/2023
New year's day walkJazDisney01/01/2023
Parked at Black Hill car park, Descended to Olchon Valley before trudging to the top of the ridgeline, took in Pen-y-Garn Fawr and then North Daren before doing a U-Turn and heading back over to Black Mountain South Top, Black Mountain and Hay Bluff, before heading back round to Black Hill and descending over The Cats Back, great day if you ignore the icy padstones and boggy start!lboutside19/11/2022
Loop from hay bluff car park, along the cat's back and back low level through the woodlandsNicky C16/10/2022
Capel-y-ffin > Black Mountain South Top > Black Mountain > Hay Bluff > Gospel Pass > Twmpa > Rhos Dirion > Charwel y Fan > Capel-y-ffin.Winterfloodian30/07/2022
Herefordshire Walking Festival - Olchon Round www.exploringmidwales.co.ukRob Rees20/06/2022
Nuttall walk 12.1 but started and finished at Gospel Pass, with R.Dan Baddeley30/04/2022
With IT and PTgarth8719/04/2022
Worth detour regardless of lack of relative height, since with Black Hill (also unclassified) had the best viewsNick Canute02/04/2022
Walked up from the stone circle car park, it was steep! Then on to Twmpa.SootAndShale26/03/2022
O maes paecio Hay Bluff. Gyda Rhiannon.sionbrit11/12/2021
Peak - 677m. Hike Stats: 15km; 5 hours; 726m ascent. Up the Cat's back to Hay bluff. Was during storm Arwen, low wind chill factor - clear and dry, but WINDY! Very cold. Icy.complicatedaussie27/11/2021
Up from Carpark then along to Cats Back and off via Offas DykeSimo9428/10/2021
Did Hay Bluff's Summit as part of the Black Mountain Route for Herefordshire's County Top on that day with my cousin.DavidHiner27/10/2021
Up from Gospel Pass on the way to Black Mountainsebastiencale17/10/2021
Steel ascent beautiful views of Wye valleyPounds318/09/2021
Circular hike from Stone Circle car park on Gospel Pass - Hay Bluff (marked by a trig point), Ffynnon y Parc - Twmpa (cairn marker on summit) - Rhiw Wen - Caemarchog - Three Rivers Ride route - Gospel Pass. Plenty of space at car park (HR3 5RJ)manilena05/09/2021
A squirrel lives up here! Part of Black Mountain walk from Stone Circle car park.Nick31/08/2021
Short, sharp ascent from the stone circle car parkjedthehumanoid08/07/2021
Welsh dragon trig point!freethehilltops03/06/2021
With CathyS & JackW. From car park SO 23962 37348masmith30/05/2021
Hike from Capel y Ffin to Black Mountain South top (637.4m), along Offa's Dyke path to Black Mountain (703.6m), Hey Bluff(677m), down to the Gospal Pass, then up to Twmpa (690m). With son, beautiful sunny day, 17.6Km, 589m ascent, 5 hours.VirtualMountain30/05/2021
5/9 - First walk in the black mountains, lovely sunny morning walk up from Llanthony Priory to Chwarel y Fan and Rhos Dirion, then across to Hay Bluff and Black Mountain via Twmpa, finally walking along the Welsh/English border on Offa's Dyke and back to Llanthony. 18 miles in total.JazDisney02/05/2021
Took the steep ascent up to Hay Bluff and followed a route across to Twmpa.thefunkylibrarian18/04/2021
A round of the Vale of Ewyas from Llanthony Priory. With R and B.jenx07/09/2020
G, MyIdris20/08/2020
G, Mymaryjdavies20/08/2020
With GFE. 35km total. Covid-19 escaping. Chwarel y Fan, Black Mountain South Top, Black Mountain, Hay Bluff, Lord Heresford's Knob, Rhos Dirion, Waun Fach, Pen y Gadair Fawr.Fionalevey21/03/2020
With Black Mountain from OD car parkJim T12/08/2019
From the car park on the way to Black Mountain.NormanW18/07/2019
With E. From the car park on the way to Black Mountain.Beeliner12/07/2019
Circuit of Pen Y Garn Fawr (North Daren), Pen-y-Garn Fawr, Black Mountain South Top, Black Mountain, Hay Bluff and Black Hill starting from the car park below Black Darren and following the ridgelines.BobHancock22/06/2019
1/2 With Pete and Joe, parked at hay bluff car park managing to avoid the rain with great sunset views on way back downpenbet14/06/2019
Climbed as one of several peaks walking a route from ‘the mountains of England and Wales’. Camped overnight on the hill. Showers.broser06/06/2019
Hay Bluff and Twmpa (Lord Hereford's Knob)fellowsa11/05/2019
Walked up from Hay side of Offas Dyke path . awful weather on top - very wet .. The day before was glorious sunshine from the other side of this ridgeD SID28/02/2019
Start at Little Black Hill carpark, Offa's Dyke Path walk. Black Hill, Tympa, Hay Bluff, Black Mountain and Black Mountain South Top back to car park. 15.6 miles 2690ft.stephenbuda23/02/2019
A quick up and back from the Hay Bluff car park on the way to Hay for the opening of the Cariads Local Ltd calendar exhibitionclyoung05/10/2018
Lovely walkejjohnstone13/09/2018
Started at car park below Hay Bluff, walked up to summit, then SW to Gospel Pass, across the road and up to Lord Hereford's Knob. Then descended right and returned to car park along Three Rivers Ride. Beautiful wild horses. Very windy chilly day. With AP&J. Have done these hills before for DofE.PiranhaFish27/08/2018
Parked at Hay Bluff carpark, walked to top and on to get Black Mountain.Hippy7702/08/2018
quick walk up from the car park and backdavie10/06/2018
walked from carpark straight to Hay BLuff then on to Black mountain to grab an Historic county top. Fabulous viewsadriane05/05/2018
From hay bluff car parkJanie05/05/2018
Started from Gospel Pass car park.PeakyPete19/04/2018