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Black Mountain

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Historic County Top (CoH): The highest point within (or sometimes on) the boundary of each county.
Historic - traditional list of counties from which people usually take their local cultural identity. In the UK they were never abolished, they just ceased to have administrative function. In the Republic of Ireland, most of the original counties are still real and important.

County Top: Herefordshire Herefordshire (CoH) Hereford & Worcester (CoA)
County: Herefordshire/Powys
Classification: Ma,Sim,Hew,N,CoH,CoU,CoA
Meters/Feet: 703.6/2308
Feature: no feature 12m W of path
Observations: summit 350m S at SO 25560 35023 c.20m W of path is 1m lower
Survey: KR 2x Hand Level/Trimble GeoXH 6000
Source: The Database of British and Irish Hills v18.1 (http://www.hills-database.co.uk)
Copyright: Creative Commons License
Notes: The inclusion of a summit on our site may not always mean the hill is accessible. Some summits may be on private land with no public right of way or open access. Landowner permission must be sought before accessing a hill on private land. Access rights in Scotland are separate from the rest of the UK.

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SO 25520 35385

52.011884, -3.086590

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52°00'42.8"N 3°05'11.7"W

UTM

30U 494057 5762363

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