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Walk
No 18: Red Hill - Mardy Hill Wood - Newhouse Wood - Llangeview
(4½ miles - about 1½ hours) Boots are recommended for this walk as the track through the wood is rough and often muddy. It is also not easy walking in some other parts. |
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This walk
has one long steep climb and offers excellent views from the hills to
the east of Usk. |
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Leave the town square by the south east corner and proceed along Four Ash Street. Pass the Greyhound Inn and continue on Chepstow Road. Turn right at The Olway Inn Hotel (formerly Casey's Court) on to Red Hill. Climb the short hill and continue along the lane, crossing above the dual carriageway. At the crossroads (where the Flood Route is signposted in other directions) go straight up the narrow lane. After about 150 metres ignore the parallel track on the right, which goes to a house.
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At "Graig-Yr-Ieir" house (the
white house at the end of the lane), take the narrow, muddy track up the
hill through Mardy Hill Wood. At the top follow the track with a field
to the left and a hedge to the right. (There are splendid views from here
across to the hills surrounding Abergavenny.) On reaching a footpath post
on the left, to the left of 2 metal gates (just before a house on the
right), cross the stile on the left and follow the signposted direction
diagonally across the field to a stile about half way along the conifer
plantation.
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Continue in the same direction downhill on an obvious clearing through the trees, cross a stile and go straight ahead with a wire fence on the left. Where the fence turns left, go straight across the field to a stile. (There is a superb view from here.) Go straight on, downhill, with a wood (Newhouse Wood) on the left. At the bottom corner of the field bear slightly left between a few trees and straight across the next field to a stile. | |
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Cross the next field, keeping the hedge to the left, and cross the stile. (St David's Church is straight ahead.) Turn left on the lane and right at the crossroads (signposted Usk). Follow this to the T-junction by The Olway Inn and turn left. Follow the road back 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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