Cerdded Cymru - The Welsh Walks Guide

Aberystwyth Edition


Walks Menu    Llanafan Walks   Ystwyth Valley Forest Walk (5 miles)

Summary 
Distance:  Grade: C+
Starting place: 
Grogwynion NRW car park.
Starting place map reference:  SN695717
Parking place: 
At the starting point - Start from the Grogwynion NRW car park.
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Leg 1:     Start of leg GR: SN694642  | 
From the Natural Resources Wales car park turn right to walk down the road parallel to the river running downstream. Pass a sawmill and at the stone arch bridge turn right onto the main road and after about hundred and 50 yards, with the road turning left, passing a campsite, you will see a lane , in front of a house, going right.

Leg 2:     Start of leg GR: SN686714  | 
Turn right to follow the track upwards, with the camping field showing on your right, until you arrive at a house. Follow the steps close to the left of the house and immediately afterwards go leftwards up a minor track until you arrive at a Forest Road.

Leg 3:  Leg distance 1 mile(s)   Start of leg GR: SN686718  | 
Turn right along the forest road, into the woods, and after the end of the forest road proper, after something over a mile (keep to the forest road, do not turn right or left along minor tracks), where the forest road itself turns into a minor track, look for a pedestrian gate in the fence on your right after about a hundred yards.

Leg 4:  Leg distance 0.6 mile(s)   Start of leg GR: SN705720  | 
Turn right over the stile and follow the path to where it emerges from the woods. Then follow the path further over varied ground above the river Ystwyth until until you arrive at the gate into the garden of a house called Blaen y ddol.

Leg 5:  Leg distance 0.1 mile(s)   Start of leg GR: SN712722  | 
Follow the track which goes just in front of the house and after passing the stone barn do not follow the access track downwards. Instead go through the gate in front of you into the field. Keeping the fence on your right walk downwards for about 200 yards and you will see a stile on your right.

Leg 6:     Start of leg GR: SN715722  | 
Turn right over the stile to a path going 40 yards or so down a onto the track below. Going down, keep as far as possible to the left on the narrow path as the vegetation hides a drop of few feet on the right. On reaching the path below walk the short distance to where the track turns sharp left. At this point, on your right, you will see a footbridge over the river. Go over the footbridge and walk up to the road above.

Leg 7:  Leg distance 0.3 mile(s)   Start of leg GR: SN715720  | 
Turn left at the road and walk up it for approximately 600 yards when you will see a cross barred forest road, on your right, turning back in the direction you have just come.

Leg 8:  Leg distance 1.7 mile(s)   Start of leg GR: SN718721  | 
Walk down the forest road for something over one and a half miles, keeping right at the junction near the end, to descend to the public road and your start point





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