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Walk No
17: Coed-y-brain - Ty-Freeman Road - Pentwyn Farm Boots are essential
for this walk as stretches of it are often very muddy. |
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| Leave the town square and turn right on the main road in the direction of Raglan and the A449. After passing the school, take the minor road to Gwehelog (straight on) where the main road bends right. Continue straight on at the junction with Ladyhill. After ¼ mile turn right into a lane by the allotments. After a mile, just after the red brick farmhouse at the top of the hill, cross the stile on the left. Follow the signposted direction to a stile and gap in the hedge at the corner of the field. Continue in the same direction, aiming for a tree with a double trunk, gradually getting closer to a wood on the left. Aim slightly to the right of a house and cross a stile. Follow the direction of the yellow arrow, soon crossing a stile to turn right on a lane. Just after the stone on the right inscribed "Coed-y-Byrrwch" cross the stile straight ahead. | ||
| Shortly cross another stile near a building
on the right and follow the obvious path through the wood, which has a beautiful
display of bluebells in the Spring. Cross a stile at the edge of the wood
and head slightly left to a stile to the left of a house. (If at this point
you go straight ahead on the lane past a row of houses, you will soon see
the Hall Inn which serves a good selection of food.) Turn right on the lane
(Ty-Freeman Road) and take the lane straight on where the main lane swings
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 Bluebells in the wood |
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 North east of Usk |
Where the lane swings left at the bottom
of the hill, cross a stile and go straight ahead. Just after 6 trees,
where the hedge turns right, go straight ahead with a wire fence on the
left. Shortly cross a stile and go straight ahead to the right of a narrow
grassy section, with a wire fence on the left. Cross a stile on the left
and go down the field with a hedge on the left. (Access to this stile
is often obstructed by a pond which forms in winter, in which case it
is necessary to walk round the pond and approach the stile from the other
side.)
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Enter another field and head half left towards a clump of trees in a hollow on the skyline. Pass to the right of the trees and head for a metal gate. Go through this and turn left to cross a stile. Head half left up the hill towards a large tree on the skyline. Cross a stile and turn right on the lane. At a bend where there is a postbox, cross a stile on the right. |
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Go down through the young trees (this may be difficult when they have grown more) and swing slightly right before soon heading for a footbridge (difficult to find) over a stream in the line of trees on the left. Shortly cross another small footbridge and a stile. Go uphill, heading towards a large tree to the right of a house (Pentwyn Farm). Cross a stile and head half right to the left of a small, red brick construction. Cross a stile and go straight ahead on a muddy track with a hedge and the farm drive on the left. Go through a metal gate, turn left on the lane and after 1.3 miles turn left on the main road to return to the town square. |
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A
printed, laminated card showing this walk route, along with relevant
photographs, is available at £0.90 from the Usk Library in Maryport
Street and from the Usk Rural Life Museum in New Market Street (the
road that leaves the main road by the Police Station at the east end
of the bridge over the river). If it is more convenient, the card can
be ordered by using the Order
Form.
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Page last updated 08.08.08
