History
Along the lower western flanks of the hill entrepreneur, John Christie ran the Brecon Forest Tramroad in the early part of the ninenteenth century. Two lines of this can be seen to diverge from near their crossing of the Nant Gyhirych on the northern side of the hill. Subsequently the Neath and Brecon Railway was constructed following the lower tramway route in part. This line closed in the 1960s.
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