Erddig Country Park and the Clywedog Trail 5th November 2025.

 

Setting off from Erddig Country Park car park.

The Erddig Estate dovecot.

Our first opportunity to get off road onto a delightful path through the trees.

The footbridge to the Cup and Saucer.

The information board next to the Cup and Saucer.

Nigel investigates.

The overflow from the Cup and Saucer.

Looking over The Cup and Saucer to a group of walkers with a lot to talk about!

The Cup and Saucer on the Erddig Estate.

A bench with a noteworthy message.

Trees showing autumnal colours.

More autumnal colours.

Heading into open country on the Erddig Estate.

Crossing the bridge on the way to the Clywedog Trail and Coed-y-glyn.

The delightful path through Coed-y-glyn.

Autumnal coloured leaves on the ground in Coed-y-glyn.

Mute swan on the "hidden" lake.

Heading across the meadow to the footbridge leading into Bryn-y-caban Wood.

MH with his new flask.

At the lunch spot by the Afon Clywedog.

The view from my lunch spot.

The Afon Clywedog from my lunch spot.

On the delightful path through Bryn-y-caban Wood.

Ahead is the last "climb" of the day.

The delightful wide path between the avenue of Beech trees.

Ornamental gates with main Erddig Estate house beyond.

Distance: 3.7 miles
Climb: 308.
Time: 2 hours 48 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.1 m.p.h. Overall walking average: 1.3 m.p.h.
Temperature: 17.5 Celsius. BWF 0-2. Maximum 4.8 m.p.h. Light breeze.
Group: Martyn, Sue and Michel, Nigel, Elaine, Fran and David S.
The forecast for today was rain in the morning, but improving with only a 20% chance of rain later on. In fact, weatherwise, we did well, as the only rain we had, started as we arrived back at the cars.
Much of the walk followed woodland path, covered with fallen leaves displaying expected autumnal colours.
Most of the paths were good, although we did experience a boggy section on the Clywedog Trail in Lewis Wood.
At times, we deviated from the described route, largely due to the fact that I put the route guide numbers in the wrong place on the OS Map! The bonus was going through Coed-y-glyn Wood on a delightful woodland Path.
Lunch was taken by the footbridge over the Afon Clywedog that led into Bryn-y-caban Wood.
Arriving back at the cars, a few of the group, decided to take advantage of the windfall apples and pears lying on the ground in the car park.
Birds seen or heard today included: Woodpigeon, Eurasian jay, Carrion crow, Jackdaw, Common blackbird, Goldfinch, Common chaffinch, Coal tit, Long tailed tit and Herring gull.
Overall, an enjoyable walk, and as we didn’t call in at a local hostelry on the way home, I was able to clean my boots outside before he light faded.

This was the second successful short walk for the group.  Hopefully these short walks will be a regular feature on the first Wednesday of each month - weather permitting!