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Route description |
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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| Turn left after the gate and walk up the path until after around 300 yards you meet a forest road, looking like a track. |
Leg 3: Leg distance 1.0 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN648891
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| Turn left on to the forest track. Walk along the pleasant track for a mile until you arrive at a gate into a field. Whilst walking in summer look out for the American Red oak trees with large oak like leaves. |
Leg 4: Start of leg GR: SN640881
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| Go through the gate at the end of the woodland track and walk on for about 400 yards, across the field along a just discernible path, following it as it goes into a track through a neck of woodland, then over the next field to the Fron-goch farmhouse ruin you will see in front of you. |
Leg 5: Leg distance .2 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN637881
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| Walk around the front of the ruin and adjacent to the corner of the barn below you there is a metal pedestrian gate. Go through the gate and follow the path for 400 yards as it goes down through the woods and arrives at a footbridge over the afon Leri. |
Leg 6: Start of leg GR: SN633880
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| Turn left after the bridge and after a few yards, near the site office, turn right,to follow the tarmac road which leaves the caravan site. The last building on your right is the games room. Immediately after the games room turn right along a path which may be difficult to see, crossed the rudimentary footbridge and you will soon arrive at an old rustic looking kissing gate on the right hand edge of the field above you. |
Leg 7: Leg distance 0.5 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN632879
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| From the stile follow the not very distinct path which goes ahead near to the right-hand edge of the field soon crossing another stile. Follow the path and after approximately 600 yards, as you start to overlook the caravan site, the path goes between a recently formed embankment and the boundary fence. Keep close to the fence and as it curves right you will seea a path going down the hill alng wooden steps in a poor state of repair to a stile near the bottom. |
Leg 8: Leg distance 0.3 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN626881
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| Cross the stile and follow the fenced in path until you join the caravan site access road and then the public road. Turn right at the public road, walk over the steep hump back bridge over the afon Leri and up the 300 yards through the village to where you see a lane going left. |
Leg 9: Leg distance 0.56 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN625883
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| Turn left along the lane and walk the half mile or so to the far end of the Lane. At that point Turn left a along a footpath which in 40 yards brings you to a footbridge across the afon Leri. |
Leg 10: Leg distance 0.5 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN618888
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| Turn right past the footbridge and walk along the embankment with the Leri on your right and a caravan site on your left. After half a mile you will arrive at the former Animalarium. |
Leg 11: Leg distance 0.7 mile(s) Start of leg GR: SN613894
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| Turn left just before the former Animalarium itself and walk down the lane for 500 yards, taking care at the level crossing, to arrive at the main street of Borth. |
Leg 12:
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| In Borth, look at the buildings along the main street. Some can be recognised as early fishermen's cottages, others of greater apparent affluence and ultimately the ambition which arrived with the railway in 1864. From Borth you can return to Aberystwyth by train or bus. |
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