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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 usually very boggy. |
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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 gap in the line of trees at the far corner of the field. Continue in the same direction across the next field, aiming for a large tree with a double trunk, gradually getting closer to a wood on the left. Continuing in the same direction, 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 into a small orchard. | ||
| Shortly cross another stile near a stone
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), go downhill and take the lane straight
on where the main lane swings right near a yellow gravel bin. |
 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 in a dip and go straight ahead. Just after
6 large trees, where the hedge turns right, go straight ahead with a wire
fence on the left. Shortly cross a stile and go straight ahead, with a
wire fence on the left. Cross a stile in the hedge on the left. (Access
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.) Go down the field with a hedge on the left.
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Go through metal gates (sometimes left open) to enter another field and head half left towards 2 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 right up the hill towards 4 large trees on the skyline. Cross a stile near the largest of the 4 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 half left down through the young trees (this may be difficult when they have grown more) and follow the wire fence on the left. Swing half right near a telegraph pole, soon heading for a stile and small footbridge over a stream in the line of trees on the left. Shortly cross another small footbridge and a stile. Go uphill, heading towards large trees 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. Cross 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 £1.00 from the Usk Rural Life Museum
in New Market Street, Usk, NP15 1AU (Tel. 01291 673777) and from Usk
Library at 18A Maryport Street, Usk, NP15 1AE (Tel. 01291 674925). 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.
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