The Countryside Code Getting there W ny al un k Respect other people By car B s • Consider the local community and From M4 at junction 34 take road towards Llantrisant. other people enjoying the outdoors. At the Roundabout turn right and follow the road until the next roundabout where you turn right into Rhiwsaeson Road. • Leave gates and property as you find Ta i Park on the road just before the row of terraced houses. ith wn them and follow paths unless wider B access is available. By bus Protect the natural environment The 124 between Cardiff and Maerdy stops on the road between the above roundabout and Cross Inn. • Leave no trace of your visit and take your litter home. • Keep dogs under effective control. If you have noticed any problems with this route such as overgrown paths or broken stiles Enjoy the outdoors please let Llantrisant Community Council • Plan ahead and be prepared. know so they can rectify the problem for future walkers of the route. • Follow advice and local signs. E: [email protected] or T: 01443 223796

Enjoy this walk Taff Ely Ramblers meet every Sunday LLAN Y ( TR to enjoy a beautiful walk in the South L IS Refill App is available and look out for the logo to E A

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A refill your water bottles whilst walking ) two hour walks on alternate Saturdays T and summer Thursday evenings. R A S Ramblers maintenance groups assist M BLER in maintaining the walks. Contact www.taffelyramblers.org.uk for more details. The association is a registered charity (no. 1093577) and a company Supported by limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (No 4458492).

Mae’r taflen yma ar gael yn y Gymraeg. This leaflet is available in Welsh. Printed on recycled paper. paper. Printed on recycled

Community Walks The rabbit logo was designed by members of 1st Llantrisant Brownies in the 1970’s to identify The Caerau promoted footpaths in Llantrisant Community Council. Since then the walks have evolved, www.ramblers.org.uk/wales Bunny Walk 5 with the Taff Ely Ramblers helping create the series of 6 circular walks promoted today. TheThe Ramblers’ Ramblers’ Association Association is is a a registered registered charity charity Series of 6 walks in the Llantrisant area – suitable for all ages (England(England & & Wales Wales No. No. 1093577, 1093577, Scotland Scotland No. No. SC039799) SC039799) On the way... The Caerau Iron Age Hill Start: Fort was built in the Iron Just off the Rhiwsaeson 5 The Caerau The Glamorgan Ridgeway Age and probably defended Roundabout on the A473 walk is a 27 mile linear during the Roman invasion Llantrisant by-pass. Distance Route Kissing route along the southern in AD79. Double and triple (ST 057828) 4 kilometres Fitness level Gate x4 ditches were used to adapt

2.5 miles Leisurely edge of the South Wales Map required: < Coalfield running from the oval contours of the hill O.S. Explorer 151 Near Rhiwbrwdwal Farm Margam Country Park, into a circular fort. near Port Talbot, through A473 3 Rhiwsaeson means “slope 1 Walk away from the 3 Turn left into woodland A47 spectacular upland and valley scenery to Caerphilly of the Saxons” and may

roundabout past the and follow the well- 2 Rhiwbrwdwal < refer to a battle between Farm N Castle. A copy of the terrace houses. Turn left defined path with fields the Welsh and the Saxons up the track just before on the other side of the Scale leaflet is available from the

3 100 metres following address. in 875. However, it is more Little Foxes. You should fence. Go through the < Ta E ly Rid maps.taffelyramblers.org. likely to refer to a battle see the first of your kissing gate at the end of ew 500 feet a uk/GlamorganRidgeway.pdf between the Welsh and Bunny logo waymarks on this path where you enter y Wa lk the Anglo Normans in the a post in the hedge on a large field. The hill fort Caerau This railway line used to run 12th Century. your left. Follow this track is up the hill on your right. Iron Age 4

< Hill Fort from Cross Inn to Creigiau under the disused railway The path follows the edge < quarry. It closed in the late line (you may wish to take of the field until you enter 1970s when the steel works the path on the left up to a small group of trees. Disma 5 n in Cardiff closed. 4 73 tl

the old railway bed and At the marker post veer < ed Rai < A4 descend the other side to slightly right. You should iwsaeson Ro < lway < < Rh ad Rhiwbrwdwal Farm is an avoid the mud). Continue soon pass another post Cross Inn 1 < 6 example of a long house uphill to a barn on your with a yellow cap where farm where there was room right and house on you turn left and descend Rhiwsaeson Start for both animals and the Disused railway line your left. The track now along a track, initially Finish y Wa nn lk household. The original becomes a tarmac road. through trees. As the path u s 2 B entry to the house was When you reach the turns right, cut across to © Crown copyright and database rights 2019 OS 100033886 through the cowshed. bridge over the Church your left to a kissing gate Village bypass do not at the bottom of the field. cross the bridge but follow 5 Go through this gate T i 6 a n the road around two right and follow the track to Turn right at the T-junction ith Bw turns and continue until another kissing gate onto and follow the road it reaches two houses on the road. Turn right at the back to the start point, a the left. Go straight on road and descend to the distance of about a mile. across a grass area and hamlet of Rhiwsaeson, through a metal gate. the other side of another Ridgeway and disused railway bridge. Bunny markers Near the Bypass

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