Best Walks in Southern Wales

by Sale, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780711224865
• ISBN10: 0711224862
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-01
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln Ltd

Summary

The countryside south of Snowdonia takes in the Gower Peninsula, the Brecon Beacons, the Pembrokeshire coast, the Wye Valley and the Forest of Dean. Walkers are drawn here by a richly varied landscape: sea cliff, forest, wooded river valley, bare mountain, waterfall and lake. These routes cater for walkers of all ages and levels - from short, easy strolls for the family right up to hikes for the very fit. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface to the revised edition	p. 7
Introduction	p. 8
Structure of the Book	p. 8
The Walks	p. 10
The Welsh Language	p. 14
Mountain Safety and the Country Code	p. 17
Setting the Scene	p. 19
Plynlimon	p. 28
Pen Pumlumon Fawr	p. 30
The Hyddgen Valley	p. 35
Owain Glyndwr's Way	p. 38
Elenydd	p. 44
Penrhiw-Wen	p. 46
[a] The Afon Ystwyth and [b] Cwmystwyth	p. 51
The Teifi Pools	p. 55
Southern Elenydd	p. 59
The Cothi Valley	p. 61
Dinas	p. 66
The Radnor Forest	p. 74
Water-Break-Its-Neck	p. 77
The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park	p. 79
St David's	p. 81
The Preseli Hills	p. 92
St Govan's Head: [a] Castlemartin and [b] Bosherston Lily Ponds	p. 101
The Gower Peninsula	p. 111
Rhosili	p. 113
The Brecon Beacons National Park	p. 119
Mynydd Ddu	p. 121
Carreg Cennen	p. 122
Deepest Mynydd Ddu	p. 127
[a] Llyn y Fan Fach and [b] The Llyn y Fan Fach Horseshoe	p. 133
The Horns of Mynydd Ddu	p. 140
Forest Fawr	p. 145
Caves and Waterfalls	p. 147
Brecon Beacons	p. 153
Tommy Jones Memorial Walk	p. 154
The Neuadd Reservoirs	p. 161
Bryn Teg	p. 167
The Eastern Beacons	p. 170
The Llangattock Escarpment	p. 174
Chartists' Cave	p. 175
The Llangattock Quarries	p. 181
The Black Mountains	p. 187
Mynydd Troed	p. 188
Waun Fach	p. 192
Table Mountain	p. 197
The Grwyne Fawr Valley	p. 205
Llanthony Priory	p. 211
Abergavenny	p. 219
Skirrid Mountain	p. 221
The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal	p. 225
The Valleys	p. 234
Blaenafon	p. 236
The Wye Valley and the Forest of Dean	p. 242
Boughrood	p. 245
Symonds Yat	p. 250
The Heart of the Forest	p. 257
Lower Wye	p. 264
Appendix	p. 273
Weather	p. 273
Transport	p. 273
Useful Addresses	p. 273
Index	p. 280
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