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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 0.5 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN660923
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| Caf� at Trer-ddol walk along the village lane towards Aberystwyth. Pass an old chapel on your left after 250 yards shortly after which you will be walking along a pavement serving the main A4 87 Trunk Rd. Pass an antiques shop and 100 yards thereafter the pavement stops. Look across the road and you will see a tarmac entrance road serving houses opposite. |
Leg 13: Leg distance 0.1 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN658916
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| Carefully cross the road and walk down the tarmac at road and as it soon turns left look for a grassy path going off right alongside a fenced in old mine shaft.. Follow the grassy path as it shortly joins a tarmac entrance road and then a lane at the bottom of the houses and after 150 yards you will arrive at a T junction with a lane coming downhill from the A487 above. |
Leg 14: Leg distance 1.7 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN657915
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| At the lane T junction turn right for 20 yards or so and then look for the fenced in Wales Coastal Path on the left of the field on your left.. After close on half a mile the path, which is easy to follow, emerges into a field and at the end of the field there is a gate, at which there is an information board, which takes the path into the edge of the Cors Fochno raised bog. As you walk along you will see a clump of trees in the distance adjoining the path. Follow the path for somewhere under a mile until you are about 20 yards short of this clump of trees and look for a somewhat overgrown which takes you some 50 yards to a viewpoint across the bog. This is a convenient place to take some refreshment. |
Leg 15: Leg distance 1.0 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN632904
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| From the viewpoint return to the main path and continue in the Bath direction. After approximately 600 yardsthe path turns sharply left to go over a footbridge and after a furrther 200 yards the path turns right to go through an open area arriving at a set of gates. Go through the gates to follow the path which now has a fence on its right. After 700 yards you will emerge onto a farm track. |
Leg 16: Leg distance 0.4 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN620897
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| Turn left along the track and after 50 yards turn right onto a fenced path (do not go into the private area pass the field gate).Follow the fenced track for 700 yards |
Leg 17: Leg distance 0.4 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN617898
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| Cross the footbridge and turn right and walk towards a field gate on the embankment. At the gate turn left onto a footpath. Follow this footpath to emerges, after the church, onto a tarmac lane. |
Leg 18: Leg distance 0.25 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN611898
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| Follow the tarmac lane into Borth and going right after the railway crossing look after 50 yards, where the lane turns right, for a footpath on your right which takes you the short distance to the platform of Borth railway station. |
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