New Cornelly walk leaf 18/6/08 3:40 pm Page 1 SouthCornellyIntroduction walk This leaflet describes a circular walk starting and ending in South Cornelly. Alternatively you can start the route in North Cornelly from Heol y Sheet or Porthcawl Road. It is approximately 5km (3 miles). The walk should take approximately 21/2 hours to complete but allow a bit more time to enjoy the views of the countryside and coast. The route uses a combination of maintainable highway and public footpaths. The route also passes through the industrial area of Pant Mawr and Cornelly limestone quarries. Left South Cornelly village Key Below Three Horseshoes public house Route Other public footpaths Cornelly Cross 8 Link to Cornelly Walk 2 Start the walk anywhere in South Cornelly. 1 South Cornelly village is the 6 H "original" Cornelly, and is referred to eo l-y -Sh by that name in a document written eet prior to the year 1183. Although widely 7 Ty believed locally that the name Cornelly Tanglwys originated from the supposed dedication of the medieval chapel to Farm Link to Cornelly a Breton saint named Cornelius, this is based on very flimsy Walk 2 evidence. It is far more likely that it developed from the original 4 manor house, home of the De Cornelly family who were lords of the manor of South Cornelly in the 12th and 13th centuries Cornelly Mawr 5 Portacabin 1 Quarries Take the road known as Lamb Row, passing the Three Horseshoes (disused pub. View Point Pant Mawr 2 The Three Horseshoes Public House in South Cornelly was Quarries 4 2 Three Horseshoes (disused originally known as The Horse and Tram. It is situated alongside the 3 Cornelly former railway on which it was a popular stopping place. X Quarry Continue past the pub and follow the public footpath that bears to the right, along Railway Terrace. Rock Cottages will be on your left hand side. Continue along the footpath which has a tarmaced surface for 1OO metres. 3 This section of route follows the rail-bed of the Dyffryn Llynfi and N Porthcawl Railway, a horse-drawn railroad built in 1825 – 29. Iron and coal from the Llynfi Valley was hauled to a new harbour built at Porthcawl and on the return journey was loaded with lime produced by the quarries at South Cornelly. Subsequently taken over by the Great Western Railway and converted to use by steam trains, it was finally closed in the 196Os. The public Continue along Railway Terrace. At the end of Railway Terrace you will footpath to This map is see another footpath sign. You will go across a grassed surface for 1O reproduced from North Cornelly Ordnance Survey material metres to an A-frame barrier. Go through the A-frame barrier and along with permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of the gravel path up a slight incline. The path then levels out. Her Majesty’s Stationary Office © Crown copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown VIEWPOINT! The path then goes up a steep incline. At point X at the top of the slope you can see views across copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Swansea Bay and the Bristol Channel on a clear day. Sker House on the coastline, the dunes at Kenfig NNR and The (Bridgend County Borough Council licence number 100023405, 2008) Rest at Rest Bay can also been seen. Continue along the path. You will pass between Pant Mawr Quarry and Cornelly Quarry. 4 Cornelly Quarry is the largest producer of high quality limestone in South Wales. It is especially important because it supplied the Port Talbot steelworks with sinter (ground limestone) which acts as a flux in Cornelly quarry the steel making process. Present ecological surveys indicate the fringe areas of the quarry are used by a variety of wildlife including brown hare, rabbit, fox, and common lizard. Buzzards, Corvids, Herring Gulls and Lesser-Black Backed Gulls have been viewed in the skies above the quarry on a regular basis. A pair of Stock Doves usually nests in one of the quarries. There is also some ancient woodland present, and there are calcareous grassland areas which support orchids and other plants. The old Pant Mawr quarry, known locally as the ‘Blue Lagoon’, is so named because the lime particulate laden water reflects the sunlight to give its deep blue appearance. hrs 2 miles) (3 5km /2 1 Cornelly. street parking at North Cornelly and South and Cornelly North at parking street If you have to use your car there is on is there car your use to have you If CAR PARKING CAR (www.traveline.info). the Traveline on O871 2OO 22 33 22 2OO O871 on Traveline the [email protected] on O1656 642559 or or 642559 O1656 on or by e-mail at at e-mail by or Barrie Griffiths, Local Historian Local Griffiths, Barrie • Section O1656 642537 or O1656 642593) O1656 or 642537 O1656 Cornelly Community Council Community Cornelly • County Borough Council’s, Public Transport Public Council’s, Borough County Estate, Bridgend, CF31 3SH (Telephone 3SH CF31 Bridgend, Estate, the leaflet the service numbers telephone Bridgend telephone numbers service Bennett Street, Bridgend Industrial Bridgend Street, Bennett House, prepare the walk and text or for sponsoring for or text and walk the prepare For further information on bus times and times bus on information further For Section, Communities Directorate, Morien Directorate, Communities Section, Thanks to the following for helping to either to helping for following the to Thanks the paths please contact the Rights of Way of Rights the contact please paths the PUBLIC TRANSPORT PUBLIC problems on any of any on problems practical any report to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS suggestions or suggestions and comments your on pass future. 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Remember to wear to Remember places. in steep and wet on accommodation contact one of the Tourist the of one contact accommodation on RESPECT RESPECT The going is mainly easy although it may be may it although easy mainly is going The To make a reservation or to obtain information obtain to or reservation a make To COUNTRYSIDE CODE COUNTRYSIDE ADVICE AND INFORMATION AND ADVICE ACCOMMODATION The scarred and pitted landscape of this lit- at which point you will notice a kissing gate At the junction with Heol y Sheet, turn left Margam (B4283) and hascontinued as an tle dry valley running up into the western ahead of you to the left. Go through the and follow the road for 5OO metres, until important road junction at the heart of the slope of Stormy Down is a stark reminder of kissing gate and continue across the field. you get to the bypass kissing gate at Ty area through to the present day. the former importance of the lime industry Follow the line of the overhead power Tanglwyst Farm 7 . In its present form the Cross Porthcawl Road and turn left.