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Cefn yr Ystrad

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Cefn yr Ystrad tops out at 617 m in Powys. It is one of the 316 Hewitts — hills in England, Wales and Ireland of two thousand feet or more. It stands within Bannau Brycheiniog National Park.

For more of the same, Pen March and Merthyr Common are close by. The nearest railway station is Rhymney, 6.7 km to the south.

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