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Pen y Fan

mountain, Wales, United Kingdom

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Brecknockshire
Pen y Fan, the highest peak in the park, stands 2,906 feet (866 metres) above sea level. Because of its location at the edge of the Welsh highlands along what became the English border, Brecknock has been historically a centre of conflict between the Welsh…
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Pen y Fan, the highest peak in the park, stands 2,906 feet (866 metres) above sea level. Because of its location at the edge of the Welsh highlands along what became the English border, Brecknock has been historically a centre of conflict between the Welsh…
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Brecon Beacons National Park
…Beacons (old red sandstone), including Pen y Fan, the highest peak in the park, with an elevation of 2,906 feet (886 metres). To the west lies the Black Mountain (chiefly millstone grit) of Carmarthenshire county, east of Llandeilo and south of Llandovery. The park offers a considerable variety of scenery…
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…Beacons (old red sandstone), including Pen y Fan, the highest peak in the park, with an elevation of 2,906 feet (886 metres). To the west lies the Black Mountain (chiefly millstone grit) of Carmarthenshire county, east of Llandeilo and south of Llandovery. The park offers a considerable variety of scenery…
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