Step by Step - Basin The & Canal Walk Distance 3 miles (6 miles return). This is a linear walk

Five Locks Open Hearth Pub Please use the area below The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal was created when two Canals – the The Five Locks Flight is made Originally called to record your progress. The Basin is home to Brecknock & Canal and up of locks 59 to 63 and is the Railway Inn and Junction Cottage, the Monmouthshire Canal were joined awaiting restoration below frequented by the built in 1812 to house together at Pontymoile in 1812. the Basin. Currently it is the original Canal bargees Name: the Lengthsman end of the navigable section back in the 1800s. who took care of this of the Mon & Brec, 35 miles section of Canal. away from Brecon Basin. Date Stage Time Start Stage4 Solomon’s Bridge, 47 1.1m 1.7km Crown Bridge, 48 The same style of stone arched bridge Rebuilt in 1994 Stage8 Union Bridge, 50 can be seen all along and named 2.5m the canal. Keep an eye out for mile after The 4km markers along this Crown Pub stretch. They helped Stage2 Stage5 above it boatmen calculate how 0.4m far they had travelled. 0.6km 1.4m Station Rd 2.25km A4042 Stage6 A4051 1.6m 2.5km A472

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Pum Loc Tafarn Open Hearth Crewyd Camlas Mynwy ac Defnyddiwch y blwch isod i Basn Pont-y-moel Aberhonddu pan unwyd dwy Mae’r Pum Loc yn cynnwys Y Railway Inn oedd ei henw gofnodi’ch cynnydd. Mae’r Basn yn gartref i gamlas – Camlas Brycheiniog a’r cyfres o lociau 59 i 63 ac gwreiddiol a byddai’n Fwthyn y Gyffordd, a Fenni a Chamlas Sir Fynwy – ym maen nhw’n disgwyl cael croesawu’r gweithwyr adeiladwyd ym 1812 fel Mhont-y-moel ym 1812. eu hadfer o dan y Basn. Ar cyntaf ar y gamlas yn ôl yn Enw: cartref i bwy bynnag hyn o bryd, dyma ddiwedd yr 1800au. oedd yng ngofal y rhan y rhan o’r gamlas y gellir ei Pont Solomon, 47 Cychwyn hon o’r gamlas. Cam4 mordwyo, 35 milltir i ffwrdd o Dyddiad Cam Amser Fasn Aberhonddu. 1.1m Gellir gweld pontydd 1.7km Pont y Crown, 48 o’r un math gyda Pont yr Union, 50 Ailadeiladwyd bwa carreg ar hyd y Cam8 Cadwch lygad am farcwyr ym 1994 a’i henwi gamlas i gyd. ar ôl Tafarn 2.5m milltiroedd ar hyd y rhan 4km hon. Roedden nhw’n y Crown Cam2 Cam5 uwchlaw. helpu cychwyr i gyfrifo 0.4m Cam6 pa mor bell roedden 1.4m 0.6km 2.25km 1.6m nhw wedi’i deithio. Heol yr Orsaf A4042 2.5km A4051 Cwmbran

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