Radnor Forest

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Radnor Forest — Rhos Fawr / Great Rhos

Elevation	660 m (2,165 ft)
Location	Powys, Wales
Range	Cambrian Mountains
Prominence	373 m
Parent peak	Plynlimon
Topo map	OS Landranger 148
OS grid reference	SO182639
Listing	Marilyn, Hewitt, Nuttall, county top (Radnorshire)

Name	Grid ref	Height	Status
Listed summits of Radnor Forest
Black Mixen	SO196643	650 m	Hewitt, Nuttall
Bache Hill	SO213636	610 m	Hewitt, Nuttall

Radnor Forest (Welsh: Fforest Faesyfed) is a rock dome in Mid Wales, and a forest only in the mediæval sense of an unenclosed area used for hunting ^[1]. The highest point is Great Rhos (Rhos Fawr), a broad featureless plateau which reaches 660 m, and a similar plateau adjoining to the east, Black Mixen is the only Nuttall to have a communications mast (a radio transmitter) on its summit ^[2].

According to a legend, the local people built four churches in a circle around the Radnor Forest in order to contain the last dragon in Wales, who lay sleeping in the area. The churches, at Llanfihangel Cefnllys, Llanfihangel Rhydieithon, Llanfihangel Nant Melan and Llanfihangel Cascob, were all dedicated to St Michael, victor over the dragon. Some people believed that the dragon would awaken if any of the four churches were destroyed ^[3].