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Lake · Wales

Talybont Reservoir

187 m614 ft
Area
1.31 km²
Tonight
6°CCloudy · Wind 21 km/h W

Talybont Reservoir is a lake at 187 m above sea level in Wales, United Kingdom, 1.31 km² in area and 3.3 km long.

All facts
Surface elevation
187 m
Length
3.3 km
Shoreline
7.5 km
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Lake

Talybont Reservoir in numbers

Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.

3.3 km longest1 kmN ↑
Shoreline
7.5 km≈2 h to walk around
3D map

Talybont Reservoir 3D map

Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 5.3 × 5.3 km

Surface
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Topographic map

Talybont Reservoir terrain and contours

20 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 100 mShowing west → east through the centre

Talybont Reservoir elevation profile

West → east through the centre

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Weather

Talybont Reservoir weather

Tonight · Cloudy · 6°C (43°F) · 0.2 mm · Wind 21 km/h W

Talybont Reservoir forecast for about 187 m.

  • Tonight6°0.2 mm21 km/h W
  • Today7°14°28.1 mm41 km/h W
  • Sun7°10°1.1 mm42 km/h W
  • Mon8°15°12.2 mm31 km/h S
  • Tue9°12°3.3 mm29 km/h SW
  • Wed10°14°0.2 mm24 km/h W
  • Thu10°13°0.3 mm13 km/h S
  • Fri10°13°7.1 mm17 km/h SE
  • Sat6°11°0.4 mm13 km/h NW
  • Sun4°8°0.3 mm22 km/h NW

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:18 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Talybont Reservoir

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Talybont Reservoir, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

All mapped places 8
PlaceDistance
Parking0.8 km N
Parking0.9 km NNE
Parking1.2 km SW
Campsite1.8 km NNE
YHA DanywenalltCampsite1.9 km NNE
Wild camping spotCampsite4.0 km W
Pencelli CastleCaravan site6.0 km N
BIrch Hall BothyHut6.3 km WSW
Slope

Slope

Share of the 5.3 × 5.3 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 51% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°
51.0%
Moderate, 15–30°
46.5%
Steep, 30–45°
2.5%
Cliffs, 45° and over
0.0%
Steeper than 30°
2.5% of the 28 km² view
Relief in view
547 m low point 105 m
Land cover

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 55.3%Trees 40.1%Water 4.3%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2.6 km; 107 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6
  • Purple foxglove5
  • European Toad5
  • Fly Agaric4
  • White Wagtail3
  • Eurasian Bee Beetle3
  • European wood-sorrel3
Where it sits

Where Talybont Reservoir sits

Range
Cambrian Mountains19
Region
Wales60United Kingdom371Europe2,143
Protected area
Bannau Brycheiniog National Park4
Nearby

Nearby places

More 1
More in the Cambrian Mountains 6
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Downloads

Talybont Reservoir downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Sources

Data sources

Terrain
Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025 (scene 2025-08-16)
Land cover
© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts
Wikidata (CC0)
Camping & parking, Geometry
© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
Summits
© OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
Wildlife
iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Forecast
Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources
Wikidata · GeoNames · Wikipedia