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Route description |
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Leg 1: Start of leg GR: SN654892
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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 2: Leg distance 0.2 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN651892
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| (this leg has been changed as at 25/02/02 as Natural Resources Wales have placed restrictions on forest access for safety reasons. The map is not yet updated)Go through the pedestrian gate and turn immediately left to go up the track in front of you. After perhaps a couple of hundred yards or so you will see a path going off to your right, just as the track starts to descend. Take this path the short distance it takes to join a forest track at a point where there is a metal barrier to restrict vehicular access. |
Leg 3: Leg distance 0.5 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN648891
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| Turn right on to the forest track and walk along it around the bend then following it for half a mile until you emerge on to a tarmac lane. Turn to your left on the lane and walk the 30 yards to a stile in the fence. |
Leg 4: Leg distance 0.1 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN650900
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| Cross the stile into the field. Some of the hedges on the OS map have been removed so do not rely on the map at this point. Turn half left and you will see a long hedge in front of you around 100 yards away. About half way downwards along this distant hedge there is a s stile. Walk the 200 yards down the field in this general direction to find the stile. |
Leg 5: Leg distance 0.1 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN648901
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| Cross the stile and follow a path for 100 yards alongside the hedge, and over a shallow stream arriving at another stile. Cross the stile on to a tarmac lane, turn right down the lane to arrive at a cross roads in about 100 yards. |
Leg 6: Leg distance 0.4 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN648902
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| Turn left at the cross roads. Walk along and after 100 yards turn right marked with a colourful sign to Ynyscapel. Walk down this farm lane for 350 yards to the edge of the farmyard. Look ahead for the pedestrian gate adjoining a farm gate, go through it and follow the track downwards until after 200 yards you arrive at a gate ahead of you. |
Leg 7: Leg distance 1.0 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN644907
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| Go through the gate and turn right to follow the Wales Coastal Path along the field and into the Dyfi National Nature Reserve. After almost a mile you will arrive at a tarmac lane. Turn right at the lane and go the few yards up the hill to arrive at the main road A487. Opposite you is a track going diagonally up the hill. |
Leg 8: Leg distance 0.1 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN658914
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| Walk up the track which goes between a field and the back gardens of houses. At the top turn right on to a footpath |
Leg 9:
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| A few yards up the path there is a somewhat decayed stile on the right, |
Leg 10: Leg distance 0.3 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN659915
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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 11: 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 12: 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 13: 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 14: 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 15: 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 16: 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 |
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