It has one of the more colourful names of any British mountain, translating as slippery peak of the witch, perhaps in reference to the boggy conditions underfoot, or because of the resemblance of its pointed profile to an archetypal witch's hat.
It is an outlier of the Carneddau, the higher peaks of which can be reached from Pen Llithrig y Wrach via Pen yr Helgi Du. On its eastern side, the mountain slopes steeply down to Llyn Cowlyd.
llithrig, wrach, slippery, head, witch, mountain, peak, snowdonia, north, wales, four, marilyns, that, make, carneddau, range, east, creigiau, gleision, another, marilyn, while, west, helgi, carnedd, llewelyn, craig, eigiau, llyn, eigiau, seen, north, while, g. Pen Llithrig y Wrach Slippery Head Top of the Witch is a mountain peak in Snowdonia North Wales It is one of the four Marilyns that make up the Carneddau range To the east is Creigiau Gleision another Marilyn while to the west are Pen yr Helgi Du and Carnedd Llewelyn Craig Eigiau and Llyn Eigiau can be seen to the north while Gallt yr Ogof Glyder Fach and Tryfan can be viewed to the south Pen Llithrig y WrachPen Llithrig y wrach seen across Llyn Cowlyd from Creigiau GleisionHighest pointElevation799 m 2 621 ft Prominence180 m 590 ft Parent peakCarnedd LlewelynListingMarilyn Hewitt NuttallNamingEnglish translationslippery peak of the witchLanguage of nameWelshPronunciationWelsh pɛn ˈɬɪ8rɪɡ e ˈwraːx GeographyLocationConwy WalesParent rangeSnowdoniaOS gridSH716623Topo mapOS Landranger 115Pen Llithrig y Wrach from ConwyIt has one of the more colourful names of any British mountain translating as slippery peak of the witch perhaps in reference to the boggy conditions underfoot or because of the resemblance of its pointed profile to an archetypal witch s hat It is an outlier of the Carneddau the higher peaks of which can be reached from Pen Llithrig y Wrach via Pen yr Helgi Du On its eastern side the mountain slopes steeply down to Llyn Cowlyd It may be climbed from the southern side from Capel Curig or the A5 or from the north east from Dolgarrog or Tal y bont in the Conwy valley 1 2 3 It is quite prominent when viewed from the north near Llandudno References edit Marsh Terry The Summits of Snowdonia London Robert Hale 1984 Marsh Terry The Mountains of Wales London Hodder and Stoughton 1985 Nuttall John amp Anne 1999 The Mountains of England amp Wales Volume 1 Wales 2nd edition ed Milnthorpe Cumbria Cicerone ISBN 1 85284 304 7 External links editwww geograph co uk photos of Pen Llithrig Y Wrach and surrounding area53 08 32 N 3 55 16 W 53 14233 N 3 92108 W 53 14233 3 92108 nbsp This Conwy County Borough location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Pen Llithrig y Wrach amp oldid 1198255468, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
