Crugyn Ci is a hill-top (533m/1743') with a trig pillar, lying 3 miles west of Rhayader, on the broad ridge which separates the Elan and Wye valleys. The hill is scattered with rocky outcrops, and, as it lies on the Elan watershed, with several of the concrete posts which mark the boundary of the land bought by Birmingham Corporation in the 1890s to provide a catchment for its Elan reservoir scheme. This panorama was taken around midday on a calm February day, and an early skylark is all that breaks the silence. Mist still fills the Wye valley, but further to the west in Cwm Elan, the sun has already burned it off. The view encompasses Drygarn Fawr to the south-west, Pumlumon to the north-west, and Radnor Forest to the east, but the main attraction of Crugyn Ci is the feeling it gives of space and peace, and of wild moorland rolling away into the distance on all sides.
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