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
Sugar Loaf, New York Hambletonian 10, consideed the sire of all American standardbred horses, was born in Sugar Loaf in 1848. America's first murder-for-hire took place on "Calamity Corners" at the intersection of Pine Hill and Hambletonian Roads. Throughout the remainder of the 19th century, and for most of the 20th century, Sugar Loaf remained a quiet, pastoral hamlet, renowned for bawdy, Apple-Jack saloons. During the Prohibition era, speakeasies were established for the enjoyment of countless jazz-age revelers en route to the Glenmere mansion estate on Pine Hill Road, on Glenmere Lake. For the last half century through today the hamlet has existed as