Black Mixen
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| Black Mixen | |
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 Black Mixen and the communications mast from the Rhos Fawr plateau |
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| Elevation | 650 m (2,133 ft) |
| Parent peak | Rhos Fawr |
| Listing | Hewitt, Nuttall, |
| Location | |
| Location | Powys,  Wales |
| Range | Cambrian Mountains |
| Coordinates | 52°16′18″N 3°10′44″W / 52.2718°N 3.1789°WCoordinates: 52°16′18″N 3°10′44″W / 52.2718°N 3.1789°W |
| 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.
[edit] References
- ^ Nuttall, John & Anne (1999). The Mountains of England & Wales - Volume 1: Wales (2nd edition ed.). Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone. ISBN 1-85284-304-7.
- ^ "Pumlumon". http://www.mountains-snowandrock.org.uk/Wales/pumlumon.php. Retrieved 2007-04-22.
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