Brecon Beacons (Bannau Brycheiniog)

A mountain range holding the highest ground in south Wales, Pen y Fan at 886 metres, its twin summit Corn Du at 873, and Craig Gwaun Taf at 826. The Welsh name, Bannau Brycheiniog, is simply the peaks of Brycheiniog, the early medieval kingdom that covered this country; the English name derives from it and first appears in the eighteenth century. John Leland described the hill in his Itinerary of Wales between 1536 and 1539, reporting a fair wellspring on the very top and a clear-day view of « a part of Malvern Hilles, and Glocestre, and Bristow, and part of Devenshir and Cornwale ».