Leg 1: Leg distance 0.5 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN654892
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| Start from the green on Talybont Square. Leave the square by the lane that is between the Black Lion and the toilets. Walk up the lane and keep left just before the two impressive semi detached Victorian villas. Proceed along the lane and over the stream bridge to a T junction. |
Leg 2: Leg distance 1.3 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN659898
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| Turn right at the T junction and walk up the lane for a mile and a quarter or so, through two gates, until you come to Penysarn farm at the top. Turn left at the farm and walk the few yards to a Y junction. At the junction look right to a grassy knoll just above the road. Walk up onto it and the stones that you see represent the ancient site of Bedd Taliesin |
Leg 3: Leg distance 0.4 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN671912
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| Walk back onto the lane and the Y junction to take the left hand lane. Before you do so look around you at some superb landscape and probably here and as you walk down the lane the best available views of the Dyfi estuary. Walk down the lane and over the bridge over the afon Cletwr situated in the wooded valley. Walk along past a house on your right with livestock in the garden and almost immediately afterwards you will find a metal pedestrian gate on the left. |
Leg 4: Leg distance 0.3 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN674920
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| Walk through the gate and follow the marked path until you emerge again on a tarmac to lane. Walk along the lane for about 200 yards, passing a converted barn on your left and the house on your right. After 200 yards, just after the lane starts descending, look for a signpost on the left pointing to a footpath stile. |
Leg 5: Start of leg GR: SN671922
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| Cross the stile and follow the footpath. For a few yards it goes along an embankment and then turn right making for the the gap between the two prominent large stones you see in the field in front of you The path is not conspicuous. After the stones turn half left and follow the edge of the woodland in front of you to the fence where at the far left corner you will find a stile. |
Leg 6: Start of leg GR: SN669922
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| Cross the stile to enter the Cwm Cletwr Nature Reserve. Follow the path through the shrubby wood for around 100 yards or so and then turn left when you meet another path. Follow the path down and around the hill and as it starts to level off turn right at a rather inconspicuous path. If you arrive at a footbridge over a small Brook then you have gone about 20 yards too far! |
Leg 7: Leg distance 0.5 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN668922
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| Having turned right follow the path for some way, ignoring a path which comes in from the right. Walking onwards you will hear the sound of the Cletwr stream in the valley below and you will come to a downward path going sharp left from your current path.Follow the path downwards until it arrives at the bank of the Clettwr and turn right to follow the path down stream until you come to a footbridge. (The mapped route of this leg is diagrammatic owing to lack of survey information). |
Leg 8: Leg distance 0.2 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN664920
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| Cross the footbridge and turn right to walk along the path parallel with the stream. At the point at which the path starts to go fairly steeply downhill look left for a metal gate. Turn left through the gate and walk upwards the hundred yards or so until you come to another metal gate. At this point you may if you wish do down the steep path and into Tre'r-ddol where you may take a bus back to Talybont or Aberystwyth - after ,of course, refreshment at the Wildfowler or the Cletwr Community Cafe |
Leg 9: Start of leg GR: SN661921
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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 10: 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 11: 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 12: 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 13: 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 14: 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 15: 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 16: 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 17: 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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