Cerdded Cymru - The Welsh Walks Guide

Aberystwyth Edition


Walks Menu    Aberystwyth Walks    Plas Crug and the banks of the Afon Rheidol (2.5 miles)

Summary 
Distance: 2.2 miles Grade: D
Starting place: 
Weatherspoons Public House at Aberystwyth Railway Station.
Starting place map reference:  SN585816
Parking place: 
Parking in the car park alongside Park Avenue around the corner from the roundabout beyond the taxi rank.
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500 feet
250 m
Image courtesy of Ordnance Survey, © 2024 Microsoft Corporation

Route description

Leg 1:     Start of leg GR: SN585816   
With your back to Wetherspoons and the railway station, turn right, passing bus stops to reach the iron gates at the entrance to Plas Crug Avenue. Turn right into the Avenue and walk up this avenue laid out as a public promenade around 1880 and still remaining a plesant traffic free walk. Walk the 700 yards to reach Plascrug School and one end of the Aberystwyth Rugby Club pitch.

Leg 2:     Start of leg GR: SN590812   
Immediately past school, turn right, cross railway line, then road at traffic lights.

Leg 3:     Start of leg GR: SN590810   
After crossing the road swing left and then follow the joint footpath and cycle track on your right. You will pass houses on your left before getting to the signboard announcing the Parc y llyn Nature Reserve, about 300 yard from when you crossed the road. Immediately before the board there is an earth path going right off the surfaced track.

Leg 4:     Start of leg GR: SN591807   
Turn right to follow the earth track which takes you along a pleasant route through the Nature Reserve and the bank of the Afon Ystwyth. Keep right at all junctions until you again join the cycle track.

Leg 5:     Start of leg GR: SN594804   
Turn right on to the cycle track and walkway. After a few yards turn riight again to go under the bridge, Follow riverside track past University playing fields to a foot and cycleway bridge over the Afon Rheidol.

Leg 6:     Start of leg GR: SN601804   
Cross bridge and follow the joint footpath and cycle track around the cricket field to reach the main entrance to the cricket field and You are now in Coed Geufron.

Leg 7:     Start of leg GR: SN602802   
Just beyond the cricket field entrance, after about 20 yards, turn right off the track to follow a footpath. Cross a small stream, before bending right to reach a track serving a white painted house.

Leg 8:     Start of leg GR: SN602801   
Continue ahead on tarmac track to a hoousing estate to a proper road with adjoining houses. Follow the road to a T junction. Turn right at this junction and walk on until you meet the main road A4120.

Leg 9:     Start of leg GR: SN594802   
Turn onto the pavement on the right and walk down the hill to the steps just beyond the river bridge

Leg 10:     Start of leg GR: SN595803   
Go down the steps, turn right to go under the bridge then turn right to the steps which take you back up to the road. Use the pavement to recross the bridge and just after it turn turn right to go through the gate to the riverside path. This is the opposite side of the river from the one you followed earlier. Follow the riverside path past playing fields and allotments to reach a footbridge over river.

Leg 11:     Start of leg GR: SN590809   
Cross footbridge, and branch left towards road, and go left on the roadside footpath until you see the Aberystwyth Town sign and a footpath with cycleway on your left.

Leg 12:     Start of leg GR: SN588811   
Follow this along joint footpath cycleway along the riverside until you reach s suspension bridge. Do not cross.

Leg 13:     Start of leg GR: SN584812   
Walk along the pedestrian/cycle path past the suspension bridge and follow it around a short distance to emerge from the car park. Continue straight on along the street passing Heol Minafon/Riverside Terrace on your right. Continue the short distance until a footpath or cycleway leaves the road on its left. Either follow the footpath to retrace your earlier route, in the reverse direction, to the promenade and the bandstand. Or keep right on the road to the junction a short distance away and turn right to go into the town.

Leg 14:     Start of leg GR: SN584813   
Continue a hundred yards or so keeping keeping right where a joint footpath and cycleway leaves the road on the left and proceed the few yards to the main road junction.Turn right to go into the town and your starting point

Leg 15:     Start of leg GR: SN583814   
Turn right into Mill Street to go to the railway station and your starting point









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