Ysceifiog Lake, Caerwys, Maes-mynan and Pwll-gwyn Wood 30th July 2025.

This photo was taken when we last did this walk in 2011.

Just one of the regular walkers left!

Ysceifiog Lake through the trees from the path on the south side of the lake.

On Ysceifiog's lakeside path, heading for Ddol.

"Just testing my Welsh".

In 2011, the natives in this wood were pigs, now it's the turn of the ponies.

On the path through Bryn Sion Wood.

A Red admiral butterfly seen on our walk today.

We were glad to see this gate and footpath sign on our way to Caerwys.

High Street, Caerwys.

The old court house at Caerwys.

St., Mary's Church, Caerwys.

Inside St., Mary's Church, Caerwys.

Descending the path through Coed Maes-mynan.

A Gatekeeper butterfly seen on our walk today.

The path on the north west side of Coed Maes-mynan.

Nigel on route through Coed Maes-mynan.

The path leading to Pwll-gwyn Wood with the Clwydians on the skyline.

Views to west as we approached Pwll-gwyn Wood.

The delightful path through Pwll-gwyn Wood.

Descending the path through Pwll-gwyn Wood down to the A541.

Distance: 9.2 miles.
Climb: 1270’
Time: 5 hours 40 minutes.
On the move walking average: 2.3 m.p.h.
Overall walk average: 1.6 m.p.h.
Temperature: 17.6 Celsius throughout the walk, although pat times, it did feel a little warmer.
Beaufort Wind Force: 0 – 2. Mainly no noticeable wind, but at one point, it reached a 4.2 m.p.h. Light breeze.
Group: Martyn, Fran and Nigel.
This proved to be a good day for walking, not too hot, no wind and all the rain we had was when we were in the car on route.
Today, we even had time to go inside St., Mary’s Church at Caerwys. Caerwys has a lot of history attached, so we spent some time reading the blue plaque notices.
Birds seen or heard today included: Woodpigeon, Goldfinch, Jackdaw, Common blackbird, Carrion crow, Coal tit, Common buzzard, Winter wren, Black billed magpie, Common pheasant and Wood nuthatch,
We did see lots of butterflies including: Small white, Large white, Peacock, Red admiral, Meadow brown, Speckled wood and Gatekeeper.
Overall, an enjoyable and varied walk, despite route finding being challenging at times, but most of it was our fault as Dave Berry’s route description was really good!
Not reading the walk description, resulted in our walk being a little longer than expected
After walk drinks were enjoyed at the Rake Hall at Little Stanney, where Brimstage Brewery’s Trapper’s Hat was the beer of choice. I enjoyed my usual pot of tea once they eventually brought me a cup to go on the saucer!