Sugar Loaf, Monmouthshire Sugar Loaf, Monmouthshire Sugar Loaf, sometimes called The Sugar Loaf ( or ), is a mountain situated north-west of Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales. It is the southernmost of the summit peaks of the Black Mountains, with a height of 1,955 feet (596 metres). The original Welsh name of the hill appears to have been Mynydd Pen-y-fâl. Translated into English, this name means 'mountain of the head/top of the peak/summit' from "mynydd", "pen" and "bâl". The name Sugar Loaf has been popularly applied to numerous hills which have a perceived resemblance to a sugarloaf; the nearest other such hill is the
Bread Loaf School of English John P. Marquand, Wylie Sypher, and Dixie Goswami. The School of English's central location is Middlebury College's mountain campus in Ripton, Vermont, east of Middlebury on a plateau within sight of Bread Loaf Mountain. Between 1860 and 1910, Joseph Battell acquired vast tracts of land and left to Middlebury College upon his death in 1915. The College sold nearly all property to form the core of the Green Mountain National Forest in the 1930s and 1950s, but retained the mountain campus and the rustic summer resort Battell developed. In addition to hosting the School of English and the Bread Loaf