Morphology: pen+y+ban
Phonetic: pen-uh-van
A common name across Wales, meaning literally "the summit" – "ban" being a Welsh word for peak or summit of a hill or mountain – the Brecon Beacons in Welsh are Bannau Brycheiniog for example. In Caerphilly county borough it is the location of a few scattered houses, between the villages of Pentrapeod, Croespenmaen and Man-moel, an industrial estate and Pen-y-fan Pond, a small leisure facility that is one of the last remaining canal feeder reservoirs in Wales.