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Walk No 11: West of Usk - Bridleway - Llanbadoc
(about 3 miles - 1 hour)

Boots are recommended for this walk as stretches of it are often muddy.

A printed, laminated card showing this walk route, along with relevant photographs, is available at £1.00 from the Usk Rural Life Museum in New Market Street and from the Usk Library at 18A Maryport Street, Usk, NP15 1AE (Tel. 01291 674925, Fax: 01291 674924). If it is more convenient, the card can be ordered by completing the easy-to-use Order Form. It can also be ordered more cheaply in digital format (PDF file) on the alternative Order Form.

Walk No 11: West of Usk - Bridleway - Llanbadoc (about 3 miles - 1 hour) Boots are recommended for this walk as stretches of it are often muddy.
This is a short walk on hilly farmland to the west of Usk. It involves climbing a steep, muddy path in order to reach the ridge to the west of the river.
Usk Bridge		Leave the town square and turn left on the main road. Cross the river and turn right. Almost immediately cross over the main road and take the path signposted Coed Duon. Cross the stile and take the path across the field to another stile. Follow the path up a steep hill to the right.
Cross 2 stiles close together on the ridge and head half left across the field to the double telegraph poles. Follow the Path 3 arrow, heading slightly left to a metal gate at the end of the hedge. Cross a stile ("Circular Walk" is signposted here) and another stile after 25 metres. Ignore the "Circular Walk" path signposted to the right and go straight on (also signposted) across the field to a stile in a hedge (path still signposted). Go straight on across another field, then downhill to cross a stile to the right of a tiny copse.		West of Llanbadoc (See an enlargement of this photo.)
West of Llanbadoc (See an enlargement of this photo.)		Turn right and follow the edge of the wood to a stile (path still signposted). Head slightly left towards a telegraph pole and cross the stile nearby on to a track. Turn left and after 12 metres turn right into the wood near a stile, ignoring the kissing gate on the right. Take the path through the wood for 50 metres and cross a stile and a wooden bridge over a stream.
Turn left and head for the metal gate in the corner of the field. Turn right on the lane and after 20 metres take the bridleway on the left. Go straight up the field and then swing left just before the woods, to take a track to the left; there is a blue arrow on a post at this point. Go straight on, following the field edge, and go through a wooden gate (with a blue arrow). Go straight ahead for 80 metres with trees on each side, then through a small wooden gate, following the "Public Bridleway" arrow to the left.
Follow the bridleway between the trees and at the metal gate and telegraph pole on the left go slightly right, to take the sunken track between 2 rows of trees. Cross a stile to the left of a wooden gate and follow the track to another stile. The track eventually descends steeply past some houses to the hamlet of Llanbadoc.		The Bridleway (See a full-sized different photo.)
Llanbadoc Church		Turn left on the main road and shortly turn right at the telephone box to the area called Llanbadoc Island, passing St Madoc's Church on the left. Turn left on the riverbank, shortly rejoining the main road . Follow this back to the bridge and then to the town square.