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Leg 1: Start of leg GR: SN590900
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| Starting at Maes Isfryn turn left down to the main road, carefully cross it, and walk up the few yards to the road on the left. called Bryn Eglur, passing the attractive houses then through gates onto a tarmac track which serves cyclists as well as walkers. Follow the track down to the metal gates at the bottom of the valley. |
Leg 2: Leg distance 0.5 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN589788
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| Through the gates turn left onto the lane and walk onwards over the bridge, for about 900 yards, passing the Llanerchaeron Church on your left, until you come to a forked junction in the lane |
Leg 3: Leg distance 0.8 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN583784
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| Take the right hand fork signposted to the Morfa Bychan caravan site. Walk on for about three quarters of a mile passing on your left the entrances to BrynEithin, Tyn Gwndwn and BrynyrYchain. 300 yards afer passing a light buff coloured house,Penrhiwgoch, after a sharp left hand bend, look for a stile into the field on your right. |
Leg 4: Start of leg GR: SN575774
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| Go over the stile and along the old hedge to its end, then turn left and proceed to the stile you will see in the fence ahead of you. In early summer this may be a hayfield so help the farmer by walking the sparsest grass cover. |
Leg 5: Start of leg GR: SN573774
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| Cross the stile and go down the shallow valley in front of you, making first for the gate but when you are nearer there is a style about 20 yards on the right of the gate. Cross the stile and turn left to go up the tarmac road until you reach a junction with an unsurfaced track just after the entrance portal to the Morfa Bychan Holiday Park |
Leg 6: Leg distance 0.5 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN571770
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| Follow the track for about half a mile. Approximately 100 yards after passing, on the right, the house named Llety Gegin, you will see a stile up on the left of the track. |
Leg 7: Start of leg GR: SN569766
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| Cross the stile and ascend this steepish slope into the field and after perhaps 100 yards veer left up the shallow valley to the fence ahead of you. When you reach it you will need to go right perhaps 50 yards, to find the stile into the next field. |
Leg 8: Start of leg GR: SN571767
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| Cross the stile and walk down the shallow drive valley in front of you to a fence. On reaching the fence turn right to go about 1 3rd Way up the slope to a stile possibly hidden behind some gorse bushes. |
Leg 9: Start of leg GR: SN572767
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| Cross the stile and turn right to follow the path. The fence is at first on your right but then the path crosses the fence so that it is then on your left and then disappears altogether. Nevertheless keep following the path around till it comes to a style alongside the unclassified road. Cross the road and you will see a stile immediately ahead of you. |
Leg 10: Start of leg GR: SN573767
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| Cross the stile into a field, keeping the hedge immediately on your left. After 200 yards look for a style on your left, over the hedge. Cross the stile and walk down keeping the hedge and fence on your right, go through the stile at the bottom of the field and proceed downwards crossing the watercourse by means of the culvert which you will see towards your left. Turn right after crossing the culvert, walk along the watercourse to emerge at the main road A487 at Rhydgaled, also known as Chancery |
Leg 11: Start of leg GR: SN580767
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| Carefully cross the busy A487 and behind the wall in front of you you will see a pleasant path going down alongside a stream. Follow the past down and then upwards past a house on your left just after which you will come to a metal gate leading to a farm road. |
Leg 12: Start of leg GR: SN582765
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| Turn left after going through the metal gate, walk down the farm road, turn left when you meet the unclassified road until just before the bridge over the stream you will see a metal gate on your right. |
Leg 13: Start of leg GR: SN585768
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| Go through the metal gate and follow the path, with the stream on its left, to walk down through charming woodlands with in spring a massive carpeting of anemones. Follow the path on over two footbridges, past some evocative old cottages, to arrive at the A485. |
Leg 14: Start of leg GR: SN590774
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| Cross the A4852 the opposite verge and turn left walking the few yards until it meets the A487. Turn right along the pavement and then the verge, cross the road bridge over the river Ystwyth and turn right up the steps immediately after the bridge. At the top of the steps turn left to walk back to your start point on Maes Isfryn. We hope you enjoyed your walk. |
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