Geography
Located as it is at the base of one of the paths to the summit of Snowdon, Pitt’s Head was a halt on the original Welsh Highland Railway, also marking the highest point on that railway. The present reconstruction of the railway does not envisage reopening the halt. The rock also gives its name to the Pitt’s Head Bridge, where the railway passes under the A4085, and the nearby Pitt’s Head Cutting.
In the Geology of the region, the rock gives its name to the rock of which it is formed, the Pitt’s Head Tuff. This is an Ordovician acid ash-flow tuff which outcrops on the northern flanks of Snowdonia.
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