Pistyll Rhaeadr Is open to the public throughout the year and
there is no charge for access to the falls
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All donations for upkeep of the site are gratefully received,
with a box beside the gate.
Directions
From the village of Llanrhaeadr ym Mochant find Waterfall St
next to Greterex stores and follow this road for 4 miles.
It's a great place for a half-day visit. A walk in the mountains
makes for a fine full day out.
Parking, We make a charge of £2 for the car park There is
an overnight charge if cars are left here.
All revenues go towards conservation projects around the
site.
A short walk from the car park through the gate near the tea
room takes you to the base of the waterfall.
Here there is an Iron bridge that crosses the river which take
you over to the woodland walks and public footpath.
Top of the falls is reached by a public foot path which takes
about 20 minutes .Please note this is a mountaineering environment
and can be difficult in wet weather, best done with good walking
shoes
Keep children and dogs under good control and supervision at all
times, especially at the top of waterfall.
Wales has many waterfalls, including some of the most striking
waterfalls of the United Kingdom.
The highest and most famous waterfall in Wales is Pistyll
Rhaeadr at 240 ft (75 m).
The name of the falls is Welsh for "spring of the waterfall" and
is located near the village of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant. The
waterfall is formed by the Afon Disgynfa river, passing over a
Silurian cliff. At the end of the falls, the river continues and is
known as the Afon Rhaeadr. The falls are counted as one of the
Seven Wonders of Wales
During most of the Silurian Period, Wales was covered by a
narrowing ocean basin. Scotland was joined to part of North America
and separated from us by the Iapetus ocean. The continents on
either side of this ocean had been gradually moving together and
met during the latter part of this period. The sediments in the
lower part of the Silurian in Wales consist of vast thicknesses of
muds, sands and grits. The upper part of the Silurian is
represented by shallow water and deltaic sediments
Much of Central Wales is made up of Ordovician and Silurian
marine sedimentary rocks, deposited in the Lower Palaeozoic Welsh
Basin when Wales, was part of Avalonia, lay beneath a shallow sea
on the SE side of the great ocean of Iapetus. On its far side lay
Scotland and Northern Ireland, both part of the continent of
Laurentia.
The rocks laid down in the Welsh Basin are dominated by
sequences of sandstone, siltstone and mudstone. Many of these
sequences are referred to as turbidites, because they were
deposited from turbulent, sediment-laden submarine currents, which
flowed off the shallower shelf areas onto the deep floor of the
basin.
Volcanic activity took place locally, notably in the Welshpool
and Builth Wells areas. This activity produced basaltic lava flows
and dolerite intrusions, some of which have been quarried for
building stones and aggregates.
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