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Route description |
Leg 1: Start of leg GR: SN579816
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| Continue along the footway out of the castle keep. When you pass out through the castle wall turn right at the toilets and follow the tarmacked path through the gap in the relatively modern wall until you meet the road. |
Leg 2: Start of leg GR: SN579814
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| Carefully cross the road to reach the promenade, turning left along the promenade with the early twentieth century three storey houses of South Parade across the road on your left. Proceed to the end of the terrace. |
Leg 3: Start of leg GR: SN580813
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| At the end of South Marine Terrace cross the road at its junction with an access road to arrive at a small viewpoint with upright cared totem poles, an information board and a view of the Marina |
Leg 4: Start of leg GR: SN580812
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| Follow the access road down the short hill and follow the road and subsequent path around the small circular inlet until you pass the brick built pumping station and come up against the whitewashed brick wall of Rimmer's Wine Bar |
Leg 5: Start of leg GR: SN582814
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| At the white washed wall turn left and follow the short alleyway the few yards until it meets a road. Turn right along the road until after just 30 m. or so you meet the main road at Trefechan Bridge. |
Leg 6: Start of leg GR: SN583814
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| Turn right at the road to cross Trefechan Bridge using the right hand pavement. Take care as the pavement is narrow. Look for the pedestrian gap on your right at the end of the bridge. |
Leg 7: Start of leg GR: SN583813
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| Turn right to go through the pedestrian gap and walk down into a boat storage area. Look to your left and walk the few yards to the old oast house (or hop kiln). |
Leg 8: Start of leg GR: SN582813
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| Walk on from the oast house past the Aberystwyth Justice Centre. Veer right on to the walk way which goes along the side of the Marina with apartments and their front lawns on its left. Walk along this path past the Aberystwyth Yacht Club to the lane. |
Leg 9: Start of leg GR: SN581808
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| Turn right along the lane passing a World War 2 'pillbox' on your right and then walk down to the bridge over the canalised Afon Ystwyth (just before its confluence with the Afon Rheidol) |
Leg 10: Leg distance 1 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN580807
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| From the bridge follow the track on top of the shingle to the end of the beach, just where the coast path starts ascending a steep cliff |
Leg 11: Leg distance 1 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN578796
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| At the end of the beach turn left over the style and proceed inland along the path and track, after a mile turning left on to a tarmac road . Just before the river bridge 200 yards further on, look on the right for the gate to the riverside path which will take you back along the river to the bridge at the north end of the Tanybwlch shingle beach. |
Leg 12: Leg distance 1.2 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN589788
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| Walk along the riverside path to return to the previous bridge over the Ystwyth river |
Leg 13: Leg distance 1.0 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN580800
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| Now retrace your outward route back through the Marina area to the Trefechan Bridge. |
Leg 14: Leg distance 0.3 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN583813
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| At the Trefachan Bridge decide whether to walk back to the castle the way you came, or proceed directly along the main road to the centre of Aberystwyth |
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