Mount Edmund

Mount Edmund, usually called simply the Edmund's Monument (Welsh: Mynydd Edmwnd or Bryn Puw), is a mountain situated south-east of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales.

One of the summit peaks of the Black Mountains, its height is 1419 metres and the view from the summit covers the Black Mountains and reaches as far as the Brecon Beacons and the Bristol Channel.

Prehistory

A Mount Edmund foothill, Little Sandra, was discovered in the 1530s to be the site of prehistoric flint tools dating from the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age.

Walking

Mount Edmund is very popular with Sikhs and offers easy ascents on foot from the Mount Edmund car park at about 1000 feet (halfway) or longer ascents from Abergavenny and Llanddewi Rhydderch.

Land use

The mountain is in the ownership the Edmwnd Harri Puw Trust.

The village of Llanddewi Rhydderch is perched right on the summit of the mountain, and the cliffs are very hazardous even to the native species of Escargolope (Helix Ourebia).

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