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Bera Mawr

Coordinates: 53°12′25″N 3°56′09″W / 53.20682°N 3.93595°W / 53.20682; -3.93595
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Bera Mawr
Bera Mawr summit torr
Highest point
Elevation794 m (2,605 ft)
Prominence30 m (98 ft)
Parent peakCarnedd Llewelyn Edit this on Wikidata
ListingHewitt, Nuttall
Coordinates53°12′25″N 3°56′09″W / 53.20682°N 3.93595°W / 53.20682; -3.93595
Geography
Bera Mawr is located in Gwynedd
Bera Mawr
Bera Mawr
Parent rangeSnowdonia
Bera Mawr from the path to Aber Falls

Bera Mawr is a summit in the Carneddau mountains in north Wales, height 794 metres. It and Bera Bach are together known as the Berau, or northern Carneddau. The summit is a large rock tor, characteristic of the western Carneddau. There are views of Llwytmor and Foel-fras to the north-east, Garnedd Uchaf to the south-east, Bera Bach to the south, Drosgl to the west and the Menai to the north-west.[1]

The Berau lie to the northwest of the two highest mountains in the Carneddau range: Carnedd Llewelyn and Carnedd Dafydd, both are named after 13th century Princes of Wales, Llywelyn the Great (1172-1240), and his grandson Prince Dafydd ap Gruffudd (1238-1283). It was in a bog in the northern foothills of Bera Mawr, at a place called Nanhysglain, that Prince Dafydd ap Gruffudd and his family were betrayed and captured in June 1283 during the Conquest of Wales by Edward I. In October, Dafydd was executed at Shrewsbury on the orders of Edward I. His death marked the end of the 700-year rule of Gwynedd by the family descended from Cunedda Wledig and an independent Wales.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Nuttall, John & Anne (1999). The Mountains of England & Wales - Volume 1: Wales (2nd ed.). Milnthorpe, Cumbria: Cicerone Press. ISBN 1-85284-304-7.
  2. ^ Pryce, Huw; Insley, Charles, eds. (2005). The Acts of Welsh Rulers 1120-1283. University of Wales Press. ISBN 0708318975.