Everyone should aim high but what about owning your own mountain?
A mountain for sale in the Clwydian Range is expected to attract interest from landowners looking to take advantage of tree-planting grants. Offers in excess of £400,000 are being invited for Moel y Plâs, near Llanarmon Yn Iâl, Denbighshire.
Some 114.68 acres (46.41ha) of upland pasture is available within a single field parcel that rises from 1,000ft to a maximum height of 1,400ft. With a prominence of 282ft, Moel y Plâs gives stunning views across North Wales to Snowdonia, and across the Cheshire Plain towards Manchester and Liverpool.
North Wales Live reported that Tom Davies, of agents Morris Marshall & Poole with Normal Lloyd, said the land is a useful block of upland pasture but could also interest landowners for other reasons. He said: “This extensive block of Grade 5 agricultural land offers prospective purchasers the potential for forestry and carbon sequestration operations.”
Last week the Welsh Government announced two new grant schemes designed to pump prime tree-planting activity in the country. The administration has made £32m worth of funds available to farmers and landowners over the next 12 years with the aim of planting 43,000ha of new woodland – amounting to 86 million trees – by the end of the decade.
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Money for fencing and gates is also available as Cardiff seeks to honour its pledge to be net zero by 2050. According to climate change minister Julie James, farmers in Wales will be central to these plans.
Moel y Plâs overlooks the Llyn Gweryd fishing lake, renowned for its ghost carp and golden tench. The mountain is crowned by the remains of a Bronze Age burial cairn, measuring 12 metres in diameter.
According to Cadw, the Welsh Government’s historic environment service, the burial mound is of national importance as a “relic of a prehistoric funerary and ritual landscape”. It is said to retain “significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of both intact burial or ritual deposits”.
Collectively, many of the 21 peaks that form the Clwydian Range are of interest to historians. As with many places in the west of Britain, the shadow of King Arthur hangs over the heather-clad hills, many of which are topped by tumuli and cairns. Six have Iron Age hillforts.
Moel y Plâs lies on the Offa’s Dyke Path, though the dyke itself was not built on the Clwydian Range, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. For its owner, a natural water supply is available and roadside access is off an unclassified highway.
- For more details, the sale particulars are on the agent’s website here. Tom Davies can be reached on 01938 552371.
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