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Ysgyryd Fawr’S Km 20 0 40 0 60 0 0 0 Attribute of This Walk One Pleasing STEVE EDDY CHOSEN BY… 22 U Distance: 2 7 Miles/11Km 4 PEMBROKESHIRE MONMOUTHSHIRE 21 FOEL FEDDAU 22 YSGYRYD FAWR WALES WALES A W N uDistance: 9 miles/14.6km uTime: 5 hours uGrade: Moderate B S E uDistance: 7 miles/11km uTime: 3½ hours uGrade: Moderate Frost-shattered rocks PLAN YOUR WALK PLAN YOUR WALK on Carn Menyn. FEATURE FEATURE SEE SEE ON PAGE 36 ON PAGE 92 PHOTO: PHOTO: STEVE EDDY STEVE TOM BAILEY TOM ROUTE ROUTE Start/parking Layby on Start/parking Easy minor road, 1 mile west The path to Ysgyryd Fawr’s parking on road outside of Crymych, grid ref summit, and views beyond. church, near petrol station SN165330 and shop, grid ref Is it for me? A maze of SO325205 CHOSEN BY… Start moorland paths; some hill CHOSEN BY… of the same name when Is it for me? Paths, a lane. JENNY WALTERS 1Cross the road to take climbs; can be boggy. STEVE EDDY you get back! One fairly steep ascent The Golden Road is the bridleway opposite and Good navigation skills One pleasing Stiles 7 (including return). an ancient trackway walk to gate. Go through and needed in mist attribute of this walk Start Stiles None PLANNING that runs along the ridgeline straight ahead on track for is that you can see exactly 1Take lane opposite church. Nearest town of Pembrokeshire’s Preseli short distance, then bear L where you’re going from the Cross A465 to continuation PLANNING Abergavenny Hills, delivering sweeping across grass to pick up broad, Nearest town start – and for much of the of lane, veering R past Refreshments Skirrid Inn, views of moors and coast. green path that zig-zags up Newport way there too, as the Skirrid is Llanvihangel Court and old Llanvihangel Crucorney Walking it end to end keeps to rocky outcrops and hillfort Refreshments a distinctive landmark, visible barn on L. Keep straight ahead (01873 890258); www. you up high for 10 miles but on top of Foel Drygarn and Nearest in Crymych from afar, and set apart from following small Beacons Way skirridmountaininn.co.uk leaves you a long way from triangulation point beyond. Public toilets None its bigger cousins a few miles (BW) sign. After 100m turn R (unofficial info site, Public transport not for bookings) through BW signed gate past the start; this route heads None to start; 430 bus further west, the Black Public toilets None to the halfway point at ½ mile/1km from Cardigan to Narbeth Mountains. Its location also barn. Cut across field heading Public transport X4 bus Foel Feddau before turning 2From trig point, head L stops at Crymych provides spectacular views of towards Skirrid to join path by from Abergavenny or around. And it’s really no (south) on path weaving down (Mon-Sat) the Beacons, and across pretty fence on L. Follow path and Hereford to Llanvihangel hardship to retrace your through rocks to dip. Continue Maps OS Explorer OL35; farmland to the east, as far signs through small gates in Crucorney steps as it’s a magical range up slope ahead to reach wall Landranger 145 as the Malverns on a clear same direction over several Maps OS Explorer OL13; Landranger 161 of hills and there are many with conifers beyond: there’s day – and all for a climb of fields, and along short section outcrops of shattered rock a maze of paths here but if under 500m. On the way there of green track. Where track to explore along the way, you head south to reach wall, rocky outcrops. The furthest you’ll see rolling pasture, oak veers L, keep straight across cross field going uphill to one of which is said to be any should do. Turn R to walk one, Carn Menyn, is thought woodland, and ever-changing field to go through gate into FB and gate in its SE corner. the source of the bluestones beside wall. When wall ends, to be the source of views of the Skirrid itself. And small wood. Cross FB, exit Follow BW markers to of Stonehenge. curve L to explore a crop of Stonehenge’s bluestones. ➥ there’s a very nice ancient pub wood by another gate, and emerge on lane. ➥ GRADIENT PROFILE GRADIENT PROFILE 600 600 400 400 200 200 metres metres 0 0 km 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 km 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 ✁ WALES WALES MONMOUTHSHIRE NOVEMBER 2018 PEMBROKESHIRE NOVEMBER 2018 22 YSGYRYD FAWR 21 FOEL FEDDAU uOS Explorer map OL13 uBuy maps at: ordnancesurvey.co.uk/shop uOS Explorer map OL35 uBuy maps at: ordnancesurvey.co.uk/shop DON’T MISS... START 1 Small twin stones just before trig 2 point – all that remains of St Michael’s Chapel. 1 START 4 DATE WALKED DATE WALKED DATE 3 1¼ miles/2km 2 5 2Turn R and walk 400m 5 along lane. Turn L onto BW marked path via stile. Follow MEDIA 007/18 ORDNANCE SURVEY. 2018 COPYRIGHT ©CROWN MEDIA 007/18 ORDNANCE SURVEY. 2018 COPYRIGHT ©CROWN for short distance to another BW marked stile. Cross field 3 to open gate by BW marked 4 stile. Follow field edge uphill 2 miles/3.4km 3 miles/4.9km 4¾ miles/7.7km to another BW marked stile. 3After taking time to 4From summit, continue on 5Retrace your steps back Cross track and keep R along TIME TAKEN explore Carn Menyn, curve path along ridgeline, dropping along the ridgeline and over TIME TAKEN field edge to gate near SW back to R to rejoin main path down to a pass and then Carn Bica. Keep to L-hand of corner, to enter National around head of cwm and along climbing back up to pass the paths ahead as you go down Trust land at foot of Skirrid. ridgeline, climbing up towards rocks of Cerrigmarchogion and hill beyond, curving round to the rocky top of Carn Bica. reach the Foel Feddau summit explore the Jenga-rocks of 2 miles/3.3km Just before summit, bear L after 1¾ miles/2.8km. This Carn Breseb and Carn Gwr 3Go R along path and skirt to visit the ancient standing marks about the halfway point before heading across dip round to W of Skirrid (great stones of Beddarthur, then of the Preseli ridgeline and is in moor (east) to rejoin your views). Follow stony path, after curve R to reach top. a good place to turn around. outward path beside wall a while entering woods and with conifers to R. Go ahead veering E alongside stone wall. 5 miles/8.25km Continue to gate onto drive of on path, keeping wall to R, Shortly after gate on R, take Turn L on lane and follow Crossways House. After drive, and follow it all the way YOUR RATING YOUR 5 RATING YOUR path L uphill heading N. Follow for 800m, past Great Llwyn follow signed FP through downhill to reach the gate obvious path uphill to rocks, Franc drive on R. Opposite garden onto lane. Carefully from earlier. Turn R to return where it becomes less steep. Llwyn Franc (on L, not Great), cross A465 to road leading to to road and start. Follow to summit trig point. take poorly signed path Llanvihangel and finish. marked on map as restricted 4 miles/6.5km byway alongside field edge to © Country Walking November 2018 November Walking © Country VIEW THE WALK ON 2018 November Walking © Country VIEW THE WALK ON 4Backtrack 300m from stile in corner near 187m mark OS MAPS ONLINE: OS MAPS ONLINE: summit to small depression, on map. Right of Way crosses lfto.com/cwroutes lfto.com/cwroutes where clear grassy path leads wheatfield to cross new tarmac off L, heading NE downhill. track from Great Llwyn Franc. IN ASSOCIATION WITH IN ASSOCIATION WITH Follow to exit NT land where Unmarked path continues TOM BAILEY TOM you entered. Retrace your alongside field edge and veers footsteps to lane. L to pass new barn, then R. OS MAPS PHOTO: OS MAPS ✁.
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