Fan Hir Fan Hir Fan Hir is a peak at the eastern end of the Black Mountain ("Y Mynydd Du") in the Brecon Beacons National Park ("Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog") in southern Wales. It is a subsidiary summit of Fan Brycheiniog. It falls within the county of Powys and is also a part of the traditional area of Fforest Fawr. Its Welsh name means "long peak", a fitting description, particularly if seen from the east when its steep eastern face is seen to advantage. It is about 2.5 miles or 4 km long and faces east. Its summit is 2490 feet (about
Pen-y-Lan Hall Pen-y-Lan Hall Pen-y-Lan Hall is a Grade II-listed Tudor-Gothic Revival country house located near the village of Ruabon in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The building may have been built in the late seventeenth century, but was remodelled in the mid-nineteenth. The house is said to date from around 1690, but it was remodelled in 1830. It was purchased in 1854 by Thomas Hardcastle of the cotton manufacturing firm of Ormrod and Hardcastle. It was enlarged and altered later in the century, although most of these additions were demolished during the 1950s. The Ormrod family have owned Pen-y-Lan Hall since the