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Penycae to Black Wood

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Church Street, Trefechan, Penycae, Pen-y-cae, Wrexham, Wales, LL14 2RL, United Kingdom
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Climb Profile

Altitude builds left to right while colour shows gradient severity for each part of Penycae to Black Wood.

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Climb Stats

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Climb categoryCategory 4
Distance4.51 km / 2.80 miles
Elevation gain121.2 m / 398 ft
Average gradient2.7%
Maximum gradient8.5%
Elevation high325 m / 1,066 ft
Elevation low203.8 m / 669 ft
Climb difficulty score12,119.26

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Climb Rank

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🗺

This climb ranks 448,180th out of 2,710,652 worldwide cycling climbs.

🧮

Ranked as the 30,156th most difficult cycling climb of all 332,744 climbs in United Kingdom.

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Places 5,430th out of 26,148 cycling climbs in Wales.

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Ranks 159th out of 939 cycling climbs in Wrexham.

🥈️

This is the second most difficult cycling climb in Pen-y-cae.

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