Twyn y Gaer
A nice little walk this, starting at a small car park at the Queen’s Head pub (£2 for the day, pay by dropping your money into an honesty box in the porch) and ascending nearly 900ft up to a well-defined…
One man's incessant wanderings, shared so you can follow in my footsteps if you wish.
One man's incessant wanderings, shared so you can follow in my footsteps if you wish.
Category Moderate
This walk will challenge someone with poor levels of fitness, but you should still be able to complete it as long as you give yourself plenty of time and have some breaks along the way. Moderate walks can be longer, but still largely flat, or they can be quite short but have lots of uphill and downhill sections.
Cefn y Rhondda
A nice 7 mile circular walk taking in the 428m high hill Mynydd Ty’n-tyle and 481m high hill Cefn y Rhondda. This is a really good walk with fairly minimal ascent – given the height of the hills – good…
Mynydd Ty’n-tyle
The route above is a nice 7 mile circular walk taking in the 428m high hill Mynydd Ty’n-tyle and 481m high hill Cefn y Rhondda. This is a really good walk with fairly minimal ascent – given the height of…
Mynydd Garnclochdy
I thought I had completed Monmouthshire, but having scoured the map a bit more – and having walked 16 hills in the county and seeing a couple of hills that weren’t on my list I two more hills to it…
Hatterrall Hill
The final hill in Monmouthshire for me, Hatterrall Hill is a 531m hill that sits on the far bottom right of the Black Mountains range. This means the Offa’s Dyke and Beacons Way footpath passes closely by it and you…
Pen y Foel
This is a really pleasant circular walk to the top of Pen y Foel, a 331m metre hill complete with painted trig point and extensive views South, West and North. Parking is in a free car park in Abercynon –…