Glyndwr's Way - Wales - A Walker's Guidebook

• Location
• Description
• Contents
• Introduction
• Sample Route
• Maps
• Updates
• Further Reading

Modifications to Glyndwr's Way

The route has recently been modified in 7 places, for short stretches. The changes are waymarked on the ground but, for completeness, the authors have supplied the following sections of route description to replace descriptions in the current edition of the book. These will be incorporated in future printings.

Section 3 Abbey-cwm-hir to Llanidloes
Page 44

[after] 'Cross the footbridge over the Clywedog Brook and follow the line of a hedge and a fence to a gate onto a road.'

[replace ‘Turn left on the road…go through a gate and up a farm drive.’ with]

'Turn right onto the road and follow for approximately 0.75 km (0.5m), ignore the first track on the left off the road, take the next track on the left. This track leads to Esgair.'

Section 6 Llanidloes to Glaslyn
Page 55

[after] 'After admiring the view down the valley towards Llyn y Fan and Van, turn left onto a farm track.'

[replace the next sentence ‘Follow the track…out into a field’ with]

'Follow the track down to Bryntail Farm, and follow the waymarked diversions around it and out into a field.'

Section 7 Machynlleth to Llanbrynmair
Page 79

[after] 'and continue on the farm access road'

[replace the comma with a full stop, delete to the end of the section and insert]

'The route turns left and away from the level crossing, which has been shut for safety reasons. This is a new road, built to avoid crossing the railway. Cross a bridge over a river (Afon Twymyn) and, at the road junction, either turn right for Llanbrynmair or turn left to join the beginning of Section 8 (Llanbrynmair to Llangadfan).'

Section 8 Llanbrynmair to Llangadfan
Page 81

[after] 'Go across two fields, over a stile and footbridge in the field corner, head diagonally left across another field and stile, turn left and go uphill.'

[replace 'Turn right at the waymark… to the edge of the trees and a road’ (NB this section is not covered on the current published map segment) with]

'About half way up the hill turn off to the right; it is waymarked. Just before a small stand of trees turn left, go straight uphill to an old track, turn right and continue uphill to a stile. Go over the stile, still on an old track, and continue uphill, among the gorse bushes. Just before reaching the corner of a fence with a hedge coming uphill, turn left; there is a waymark. The path zigzags back on itself. Go diagonally left, uphill, to high ground. Eventually coming to a wall and a fence, turn right. This is a permissive path, not a right of way. Just before the gradient gets steep, and about a hundred metres from the waymark in the fence, bear right. The route goes to the corner of another fence. Follow the fence, keeping it on the right, and continue uphill in a sunken lane to a gate and stile. Go over the stile and continue straight ahead. The gradient eases off after a short way. Keep straight ahead to a fence and stile, cross and contour around the top of a hill. Drop down slightly to a wall with a gate and stile. Cross the stile to a col and take the obvious green track that climbs gently up the side of Cerrig y Tan. On meeting a track that goes uphill, go straight across to a gate and stile, go through and keep on up the track. Eventually it peters out into little more than a sheep track.

Just before the gate with the official footpath signs, turn off the track diagonally left, and go through a bridle gate to avoid a rather nasty bog. Having gone through the gate turn left to a gate and go over a stile; keep following the fence on the left, heading towards a conifer plantation. Go through a bridle gate and bear right to a track going across a field towards the conifer plantation. Follow the track into the plantation.

Continue along the forest road and turn left at a T-junction. Keep on the main track through the forest and once the track starts to go uphill turn off onto a forest ride to the right that is marked at Post Carreg. The ride runs parallel with the forest road to start with but also goes downhill.

Just before leaving the plantation cross Waun y Sarn stream. Come out of the wood and go up the bank immediately in front to a waymark post. From here cross diagonally left to a fence and stile. Go over the stile, turn right and follow the fence downhill. Follow the fence to a gate in a corner of the field, go through and follow the fence in this field, contouring around Eithin-Llwyn.

Go through a gate on the right and follow a modern farm track down to a road. This is the road through the valley of Nant-yr-Eira.'

Section 10 Llangadfan to Llanwyddyn
Page 85

[replace the first sentence of the route description with]

Head straight up to the main A458 road and cross the road to go down a minor road. Turn off the minor road at the first farm, (after about 250 metres), onto the Blowty Farm access road. Walk along the track through one field and then climb a stile on the right just before a bridge and follow the hedge line on the right to the corner of the field. Continue following the hedge around and up to the top corner of the field and go over a stile. Blowty Farm is over on the left. Go diagonally left and up over the crown of the field to a stile in a hedge. Climb over and cross a lane to cross a stile on the opposite bank. Follow the hedge on the right uphill to a corner and continue uphill across the open field. Go over a stile in a hedge and continue straight ahead keeping the field hedge on the left. At a gate with a stile, go over the stile. Continue following the hedge on the left. Go downhill to a stream, cross the stream by a bridge and continue straight uphill keeping a house on the left and a hedge on the right. Go over a stile, turn right onto the access road and almost immediately left onto a road to rejoin the route. Follow the road to the T-junction.

Section 10 Llanwddyn to Pontrobert
Page 90

[after] 'Do not turn left at the junction, but continue straight on downhill to a lane.'

[replace ‘Turn left onto the lane….to a bridge, Pont Llogel.’ with]

'Turn right onto the lane and after about 20 metres (20 yards) turn left onto a forestry track. After another 15 metres (15 yards) turn right up a steep waymarked ride through the conifer plantation. Continue uphill to meet a forest track. Turn left onto this and follow it to a T-junction. Turn right and follow the track downhill. On a fairly sharp left-hand bend turn right (waymarked) and follow the path through the forest.

At the edge of the forest climb over the stile, go diagonally right, first to the top of a small rise and then downhill to a stile in a fence. Go over the stile and follow the path downhill through more conifers. At the end of the path go over a stile, turn right and after about 5 metres (5 yards) go down a flight of wooden steps. At the bottom of the steps do not turn immediately left but follow a fence on the right, downhill. At a stile and gate go over the stile and follow the farm track. The path zigzags downhill. At the bottom leave the track and climb a path on the left into a wood. Follow the path to a gate. Go through the gate and go diagonally right downhill. At the bottom continue in an easterly direction into a rectangular piece of the field. Go towards a stile, go over the stile and follow an embankment along the edge of a marsh. Continue to a field, go diagonally right across the field to a gate, go through, turn immediately left and follow the track to a gate. Go through the gate, across the field to a gate, which brings you to the church at Llwydiarth.

Turn right where the lane from the church joins the road and walk along the pavement to a bridge, Pont Llogel.'

Section 11 Pontrobert to Welshpool
Page 10

[after] Go over a stile and straight across two fields to a gate, go through the gate and follow the track downhill to Graig Wood. Turn right off the track to enter the wood, taking care to pick up a fence on the left, which is followed to a road.

[replace ‘Turn left onto the road and follow it…golf course.’ with]

'Turn right onto the road. After about 20 metres (20 yards) turn left through a gate and across a field to a stile, just to the left of a large tree. Go over the stile, taking care to follow the waymark posts across this very wet valley to a bridge and gate over a drainage ditch. Continue ahead and uphill, through the rough ground and then across the field to a stile. Climb this and cross the lane to go over a stile in the opposite hedge. Turn right and follow the hedge down to the corner of the field, through the trees, and turn left onto a roughly laid stone track. Follow this through the woods to a pleasant avenue of trees. Follow the avenue to a stile onto the golf course.'