Walk 13

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Walk No 13: West of Usk - Coed Duon
(about 2½ miles - 1 hour)

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

A printed, laminated card showing this walk route, along with relevant photographs, is available at £0.90 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.

Walk No 13: West of Usk - Coed Duon (about 2½ miles - 1 hour) Boots are recommended for this walk as stretches of it are usually muddy.
This is a short walk on hilly farmland and through a small wood to the west of Usk.
Usk Bridge		Leave the town square and turn left on the main road. Cross the river and turn right. Pass the Glen-yr-Afon Hotel and the "GX Group" sign on the left and take the footpath on the left next to Mayfield Lodge. Go through the metal gate and then straight on, keeping to the field edge. Take the track straight ahead at the corner of the field and then swing right, passing the "Circular Walk 2" marker post.
Go straight on, crossing 2 stiles and ignoring the path to the left. Continue straight on uphill, with a gully on the left. Where the gully turns left, go straight on uphill to cross a stile in the wire fence on the right. Turn left up the field edge. Follow the wire fence to the top corner of the field. Turn right and after 30 metres take the stile to the left of the metal gate. Go straight on with the wood (Cuod-duon) and wire fence to the left.
Cross the stile at the end of the field to enter the wood. After 7 metres join a broad track going downhill. This soon swings left and steeply uphill to a stile to the left of 2 large trees close together. Cross the stile and turn left uphill, with the wire fence on the left. Shortly afterwards cross a stile on the left and continue in the same direction, with the wire fence now on the right.		West of Llanbadoc (See an enlargement of this photo.)
West of Llanbadoc		Cross a stile and continue straight on, with a wire fence now on the left. Cross a style in a dip at the corner of the field and go straight on. Go downhill and cross a stile to the left of a metal gate. After 25 metres cross a stile to the right of a metal gate. Head straight across the field for double telegraph poles and continue in the same direction to cross a stile, shortly followed by another. Take the path downhill. Take care here as it is steep and muddy.
Cross a stile and go straight on to another stile to the left of a metal gate. Shortly afterwards turn right on the main road again and follow this back over the bridge to the town square. (See a photo of a commemorative plaque giving the history of the bridge.)