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Black Mixen

Black Mixen
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Black Mixen and the communications mast from the Rhos Fawr plateau
Highest point
Elevation 650 m (2,130 ft)
Prominence 45 m (148 ft)
Parent peak Rhos Fawr
Listing Hewitt, Nuttall,
Coordinates 52°16′18″N 3°10′44″W / 52.2718°N 3.1789°W / 52.2718; -3.1789Coordinates: 52°16′18″N 3°10′44″W / 52.2718°N 3.1789°W / 52.2718; -3.1789
Geography
Location Powys, Wales
Parent range Cambrian Mountains
OS grid SO182639
Topo map OS Landranger 148

Black Mixen (Welsh: Y Domen Ddu) is a subsidiary summit of Rhos Fawr or Great Rhos in the Radnor Forest. The summit is large peat bog plateau. The summit is marked with a cairn, and is next to a radio transmitter and its building.

Black Mixen is the only Nuttall to have a communications mast (a radio transmitter) on its summit . To the east is Bache Hill, to the south are the Black Mountains, to the west is the Great Rhos plateau.



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