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Route description |
Leg 1: Leg distance 0.7 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN697980
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| Have a look around at the attractive scenery around the lonely, isolated platform of the Dovey Junction Station. Then walk down the platform in the Aberystwyth direction to the pedestrian crossing. Follow the crossing and the footbridge beyond to an access track alongside the fenced railway line. Follow the rack for around 1200 yards until you arrive at the A487 trunk road. Turn left along the road and walk the 50 yards or so to an old chapel immediately adjacent to the wall on your left. At this point cross the road and follow the short spur below the magnolia painted bungalow for a few yards to a pedestrian gate alongside a field gate. Disregard the 'Private Access' sign on the tarmacced spur as you are following a public right of way. |
Leg 2: Leg distance 0.6 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN696970
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| Go through the pedestrian gate to follow the track beyond for about 650 yards to a point a point on the right where a path along the grass descends about 70 yards down to a field gate and pedestrian gate. Pass through the gate and proceed downhill on the grassy path to a metalled field gate bordering a tarmacced track and bridge over the afon Melindwr |
Leg 3: Leg distance 0.9 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN694962
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| Go through the metal field gate, turn right on to the lane, go over the bridge and after about 70 yards, just on passing the farm buildings, look for the gate on the left to a path which goes up the hill. Follow the path on a ten minute ascent of the hill, walk along the top with its views and take this opportunity for a refreshment break. Then follow the path as it goes down the hill and reaches a tarmacced lane not far short of a mile from the start of the leg. |
Leg 4: Leg distance 0.7 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN690949
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| Turn left uphill on reaching the lane and in about 70 yards look on the right for a downhill track departing from the lane. Walk down the track and as you pass the cottage follow the path circling right to a footbridge over the afon Einion. Follow the path as it ascends the side of the valley reaching a tarmacced lane after about 300 yards. Turn right on to the lane and after 80 yards or so follow the track going left. Proceed along the track for about a further 300 yards passing, a house entrance track on your right, and approximately 100 yards later look on your right for a pedestrian gate to a path into the woods above a narrow field. |
Leg 5: Leg distance 0.2 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN684946
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| Turn right to go through the pedestrian gate and walk along the path as it goes through the woods and above a narrow part of a larger field. After close to 400 yards the path arrives at a pedestrian gate into an open field. |
Leg 6: Leg distance 0.2 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN683943
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| Go through the gate into the field. The path is now grassy and not conspicuous .Go right under the overhead electricity line towards the woodland boundary. Then walk downhill parallel with the woodland boundary until you see a line of trees in front of you protruding into the field. Walk towards the bottom right of the line of trees and follow the path as it goes down and around a shallow gully. On emerging into a field go half left across the field about 50 yards to a footbridge. |
Leg 7: Leg distance 0.06 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN680942
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| Take care with following the route along this next leg of around 100 yards. Go over the footbridge and cross the 70 yard wide field to a tree lined stream. Walk downwards along the stream until near the end of the field, after about 150 yards, you will see a footbridge over the stream. Go left over the footbridge then through a pedestrian kissing gate and then walk along the fence on your right for 30 yards passing a field gate and almost adjoining it is another pedestrian gate. Go through the pedestrian gate into a dryish stream bed and walk a few yards along a narrow board walk. Then follow the path up the bank to a footbridge which takes you out into an open field with a hedge on your left. |
Leg 8: Leg distance 0.7 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN678941
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| Enter the field and walk along the hedge keeping it to your left. At the end of the hedge see a footbridge just on your right. Cross the footbridge and this time keeping the fence you see in front of you to your right, walk along it to the pedestrian gate to a woodland path, 500 yards from the hedge start. |
Leg 9: Leg distance 0.4 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN676939
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| After following the path for perhaps fifty yards into the wood you will come to a path T junction. Take the path going right and follow it the next 700 yards through the wood until you emerge on to a well maintained track. |
Leg 10: Leg distance 0.5 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN670936
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| Turn left to go up the track and after a few yards look carefully for a path leaving the track on its right. Walk along this path as it goes through woodland, arrives at stream and footbridge then follow the fenced path around the field arriving up hill at a tarmacced lane having gone through the gate short of the lane. |
Leg 11: Leg distance 0.7 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN667933
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| Go directly across the lane on to the forest track. Walk the 400 yards to the end of the track and then look for a continuing downward path. Follow this path 800 yards to turn left after meeting the A487 and walking the few yards left to reach the Community Cafe in Tre'r Ddol.From this location you can catch a bus back to Aberystwyth if you so wish. |
Leg 12: Leg distance 0.1 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN660923
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| From the the Cletwr Community Caf� walk 200 yards along the village road in the direction of Aberystwyth, go over the stream bridge, to a point just short of an old chapel now converted into a dwelling. |
Leg 13: Leg distance 0.25 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN659922
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| Turn left along what starts as a track then behind the chapel and upwards for 400 yards along a path. Keep going straight upwards, passing through two metal gates, until you arrive at a path junction just after the second metal gate. |
Leg 14: Start of leg GR: SN663920
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| At this second metal gate turn right along the level footpath which goes along the edge of the wood. Follow the footpath for a hundred yards or so until it emerges into a forest track. Do not follow the track but look for the path which goes down to the right along the fence. |
Leg 15: Leg distance 0.4 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN662919
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| Follow the path on the right as it goes down mostly alongside the fence. Do not take any diversion on to the forest road. After 700 yards the path turns right . About 50 yards after this turn you will see a stile on the left with a map on it, just before you reach a house entrance. |
Leg 16: Leg distance 0.3 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN659914
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| Cross the stile and walk carefully through the field. This part of the route is not a public right of way but a permissive path arising from the Tir Gofal agricultural grant scheme.Keep dogs on a lead. Make sure you close and retie any temporary gate which may be in place. Aim for the far end of the field and as the field narrows to a grassy neck keep to the bottom end emerging through a patch of trees onto an old track just below a ruined house. |
Leg 17: Leg distance 0.2 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN656910
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| Turn left on to this track. It may have the odd windblown tree lying across it which you will need to circumvent. After 200 yards or so you will see a stile ahead of you. Cross the stile and proceed along the upper edge of the pasture for another 100 yards to a stile on your left which will take you on to the forest road. |
Leg 18: Leg distance 0.2 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN654906
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| Cross the stile and turn right on to the forest road. Follow the road downwards and skirting around the Nant Llain Isaf house you will see a field gate in front of you, after 400 yards. (At this point if you so wish you can carefully walk along an appropriate side of the busy A487 road for 400 yards until you come to the Maes y deri housing estate after which you can walk along a pavement safely into Talybont, taking three quarters of a mile in all. )The described alternative is of one and a quarter miles in length and takes you through good views and an interesting route. |
Leg 19: Leg distance 0.2 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN655903
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| Go through the gate and follow the track upwards for about 300 yards past another house on your left. When there is a break in the gorse on your right look for a stile on your right, about 40 yards away. Go to the stile. |
Leg 20: Leg distance 0.4 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN657903
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| Cross the stile and follow the track up the hill until it leaves the fence for a large open field. Ahead there is a solitary tree, make for the tree and then work left around the slope gradually descending to a stile at the roadside corner where the field adjoins a mainly coniferous woodland. |
Leg 21: Leg distance 0.5 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN660900
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| Turn right on to the lane and follow it down 200 yards to a a left hand junction, turn to the left, cross the small bridge over the afon Ceulan and after 600 yards emerge at another junction by a pair of attractive Victorian houses. |
Leg 22: Start of leg GR: SN657893
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| Turn right and walk the short distance down the road to Talybont Green and refreshment at the White Lion. There is an hourly bus service from this location to Aberystwyth or back to Tre'rddol |
Leg 23: Start of leg GR: SN655892
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| At the green in Talybont, with your back to the Black Lion hostelry, you will see a lane across the busy A487. Carefully cross the road and walk up the lane keeping left as you pass another lane to your right. Pass the impressive Victorian Coertmor property on your right. Continue until you come to metal gates at the edge of the woodland. |
Leg 24: Leg distance 0.2 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN651892
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| Turn left after the gate and walk up the path until after around 300 yards you meet a forest road, looking like a track. |
Leg 25: Leg distance 1.0 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN648891
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| Turn left on to the forest track. Walk along the pleasant track for a mile until you arrive at a gate into a field. Whilst walking in summer look out for the American Red oak trees with large oak like leaves. |
Leg 26: Start of leg GR: SN640881
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| Go through the gate at the end of the woodland track and walk on for about 400 yards, across the field along a just discernible path, following it as it goes into a track through a neck of woodland, then over the next field to the Fron-goch farmhouse ruin you will see in front of you. |
Leg 27: Leg distance .2 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN637881
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| Walk around the front of the ruin and adjacent to the corner of the barn below you there is a metal pedestrian gate. Go through the gate and follow the path for 400 yards as it goes down through the woods and arrives at a footbridge over the afon Leri. |
Leg 28: Start of leg GR: SN633880
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| Turn left after the bridge and after a few yards, near the site office, turn right,to follow the tarmac road which leaves the caravan site. The last building on your right is the games room. Immediately after the games room turn right along a path which may be difficult to see, crossed the rudimentary footbridge and you will soon arrive at an old rustic looking kissing gate on the right hand edge of the field above you. |
Leg 29: Leg distance 0.5 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN632879
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| From the stile follow the not very distinct path which goes ahead near to the right-hand edge of the field soon crossing another stile. Follow the path and after approximately 600 yards, as you start to overlook the caravan site, the path goes between a recently formed embankment and the boundary fence. Keep close to the fence and as it curves right you will seea a path going down the hill alng wooden steps in a poor state of repair to a stile near the bottom. |
Leg 30: Leg distance 0.3 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN626881
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| Cross the stile and follow the fenced in path until you join the caravan site access road and then the public road. Turn right at the public road, walk over the steep hump back bridge over the afon Leri and up the 300 yards through the village to where you see a lane going left. |
Leg 31: Leg distance 0.56 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN625883
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| Turn left along the lane and walk the half mile or so to the far end of the Lane. At that point Turn left a along a footpath which in 40 yards brings you to a footbridge across the afon Leri. |
Leg 32: Leg distance 0.5 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN618888
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| Turn right past the footbridge and walk along the embankment with the Leri on your right and a caravan site on your left. After half a mile you will arrive at the former Animalarium. |
Leg 33: Leg distance 0.7 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN613894
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| Turn left just before the former Animalarium itself and walk down the lane for 500 yards, taking care at the level crossing, to arrive at the main street of Borth. |
Leg 34:
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| In Borth, look at the buildings along the main street. Some can be recognised as early fishermen's cottages, others of greater apparent affluence and ultimately the ambition which arrived with the railway in 1864. From Borth you can return to Aberystwyth by train or bus. |
Leg 35: Leg distance .6 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN608895
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| At Borth, from the railway station proceed the one hundred yards or so down the road to the concrete sea embankment you will see in front of you. If weather and tide are suitable then descend from the embankment on to the beach and walk along the beach for something over half a mile (1 km) until you see the slipway adjoining the small inshore lifeboat station. Go up the slipway to the road. (If tide or weather prevent you walking the beach then walk along the main street of Borth until you see the small lifeboat station towards the end of the street, on your right) |
Leg 36: Start of leg GR: SN608890
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| From the lifeboat station follow the main road for a few yards and then keep right at the first junction and right again at the second junction to follow the tarmac road which goes more or less alongside the small cliff and the sea. Where the tarmac ends go through the gate and follow the coastal path up the hill to the War Memorial. |
Leg 37: Leg distance 1.9 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN602885
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| From the War Memorial descend to the small cliff lined bay adjoining the caravan site. Follow the coastal path with its ascents and welcoming descents until you reach the house and old quay at Wallog. not a bad point for a break to take your sandwiches. |
Leg 38: Leg distance 1.1 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN590858
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| From Wallog follow the coastal path for a mile or so until you reach the beach at Clarach with its caravan site and refreshment facilities. |
Leg 39: Leg distance .3 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN586841
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| On arriving at Clarach cross the wooden railed bridge in front of you (over the afon Clarach) and continue along the sea front. In season you can take in an ice cream from one of the shops along the front. Continue along the front to where the road turns sharp left and look for the signposted coast path which turns off to the right at this point (just above a private tarmacced road) |
Leg 40: Leg distance 0.6 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN589837
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| Follow the coast path upwards for half a mile or so to the top of Aberystwyth's Constitution Hill. On top of the hill look out for the rounded building which houses the Camera Obscura and an exhibition of Aberystwyth's Past. Worth a look. You may at this point decide to descend the hill on the Cliff Railway. |
Leg 41: Start of leg GR: SN584828
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| If you are walking down take care to keep to the right, almost alongside the cliff. You will see a concrete ramp bounded by two gate posts, go through this to the cliff side. Then follow the zig zag path down the hill, with bridges over the Cliff Railway in two places . Emerge alongside the Cliff Railway Station. Here rejoin any of your party which took the railway down. |
Leg 42: Start of leg GR: SN584825
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| As you emerge from the path turn sharp right to go the few yards on to the promenade. Walk along the promenade the three hundred yards or so to the bandstand where the walk ends. Refresh yourself at one of Aberystwyth's numerous cafes or pubs. |
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