A mountain in Wales is currently up for grabs and you could get it for a cheaper price than some houses in Liverpool.
Moel y Plâs, in the Clwydian Range, Denbighshire is currently open for offers, with those in excess of £400,000 being invited: that's roughly the same price as a detached home in many areas of Liverpool. Almost 115 acres of pasture is available, with its lowest point at 1,000ft above sea level and its highest 400ft above that.
Moel y Plâs gives stunning views across North Wales to Snowdonia, and across the Cheshire Plain towards Manchester and Liverpool, reports North Wales Live.
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Tom Davies, of agents Morris Marshall & Poole with Norm al 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.
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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