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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 (1:25k) OL13N |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 514 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
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 Fan | Cumbriancyclist | 16/10/2023 |
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 141m | vegibagger | 12/10/2023 |
12 mile loop with Adam and Peggy, start from Black Hill | davecnash | 11/08/2023 |
Sarah and Tim Polk | Rob Rees | 26/04/2023 |
Solo | simon and co | 20/02/2023 |
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. | richard69 | 04/01/2023 |
New year's day walk | JazDisney | 01/01/2023 |
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! | lboutside | 19/11/2022 |
Loop from hay bluff car park, along the cat's back and back low level through the woodlands | Nicky C | 16/10/2022 |
Capel-y-ffin > Black Mountain South Top > Black Mountain > Hay Bluff > Gospel Pass > Twmpa > Rhos Dirion > Charwel y Fan > Capel-y-ffin. | Winterfloodian | 30/07/2022 |
Herefordshire Walking Festival - Olchon Round 
 
www.exploringmidwales.co.uk | Rob Rees | 20/06/2022 |
Nuttall walk 12.1 but started and finished at Gospel Pass, with R. | Dan Baddeley | 30/04/2022 |
With IT and PT | garth87 | 19/04/2022 |
Worth detour regardless of lack of relative height, since with Black Hill (also unclassified) had the best views | Nick Canute | 02/04/2022 |
Walked up from the stone circle car park, it was steep! Then on to Twmpa. | SootAndShale | 26/03/2022 |
O maes paecio Hay Bluff. Gyda Rhiannon. | sionbrit | 11/12/2021 |
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. | complicatedaussie | 27/11/2021 |
Up from Carpark then along to Cats Back and off via Offas Dyke | Simo94 | 28/10/2021 |
Did Hay Bluff's Summit as part of the Black Mountain Route for Herefordshire's County Top on that day with my cousin. | DavidHiner | 27/10/2021 |
Up from Gospel Pass on the way to Black Mountain | sebastiencale | 17/10/2021 |
Steel ascent beautiful views of Wye valley | Pounds3 | 18/09/2021 |
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) | manilena | 05/09/2021 |
A squirrel lives up here! 
Part of Black Mountain walk from Stone Circle car park. | Nick | 31/08/2021 |
Short, sharp ascent from the stone circle car park | jedthehumanoid | 08/07/2021 |
Welsh dragon trig point! | freethehilltops | 03/06/2021 |
With CathyS & JackW. From car park SO 23962 37348 | masmith | 30/05/2021 |
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. | VirtualMountain | 30/05/2021 |
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. | JazDisney | 02/05/2021 |
Took the steep ascent up to Hay Bluff and followed a route across to Twmpa. | thefunkylibrarian | 18/04/2021 |
A round of the Vale of Ewyas from Llanthony Priory. With R and B. | jenx | 07/09/2020 |
G, My | Idris | 20/08/2020 |
G, My | maryjdavies | 20/08/2020 |
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. | Fionalevey | 21/03/2020 |
With Black Mountain from OD car park | Jim T | 12/08/2019 |
From the car park on the way to Black Mountain. | NormanW | 18/07/2019 |
With E. From the car park on the way to Black Mountain. | Beeliner | 12/07/2019 |
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. | BobHancock | 22/06/2019 |
1/2 With Pete and Joe, parked at hay bluff car park managing to avoid the rain with great sunset views on way back down | penbet | 14/06/2019 |
Climbed as one of several peaks walking a route from ‘the mountains of England and Wales’. Camped overnight on the hill. Showers. | broser | 06/06/2019 |
Hay Bluff and Twmpa (Lord Hereford's Knob) | fellowsa | 11/05/2019 |
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 ridge | D SID | 28/02/2019 |
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. | stephenbuda | 23/02/2019 |
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 exhibition | clyoung | 05/10/2018 |
Lovely walk | ejjohnstone | 13/09/2018 |
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. | PiranhaFish | 27/08/2018 |
Parked at Hay Bluff carpark, walked to top and on to get Black Mountain. | Hippy77 | 02/08/2018 |
quick walk up from the car park and back | davie | 10/06/2018 |
walked from carpark straight to Hay BLuff then on to Black mountain to grab an Historic county top. Fabulous views | adriane | 05/05/2018 |
From hay bluff car park | Janie | 05/05/2018 |
Started from Gospel Pass car park. | PeakyPete | 19/04/2018 |