St. Mary's Church, Chirk.
St. Mary's Church, Chirk.
Inside St. Mary's Church, Chirk.
Inside St. Mary's Church, Chirk.
Stained glass window in St. Mary's Church, Chirk.
A more recent stained glass window in St. Mary's Church, Chirk.
Heading fo Temple Wood.
Seeds about to be dispersed.
Is it a tunnel, not really.
On the path through the wood leading to Temple Wood,
The Right of Way leading to Temple Wood.
The Temple ahead.
The Temple.
The Temple.
Ed in the Temple.
A beautiful flower. I think it is Chicory.
The Afon Ceiriog from Chirk Bridge,
Crossing the aqueduct by narrow boat.
Crossing by train and narrow boat.
Walking next to the Afon Ceiriog.
The path leading to the Chirk estate.
At last we are in the grounds of the Chirk Castle Estate.
The view from our lunch spot in the Meditation Garden.
Our best view of Chirk Castle.
The concessionary path to Chirk.
St. Mary's Church, Chirk from the concessionary path.
The Llangollen Canal from the bridge near Chirk railway station.
Distance: 8.4 miles. Climb: 965’Time: 4 hours 30 minutes.
On the move walking average: 2.5 m.p.h.
Overall walk average: 1.9 m.p.h.
Temperature: 16.6 Celsius to 20.2 Celsius.
Beaufort Wind Force: 0 – 3. Mainly Light breeze, but occasionally gusting to an 8.2 Gentle breeze as we headed towards Llanrhychwyn after lunch.
Group: Martyn and Ed
The forecast for today was good, dry and at 17 Celsius didn’t look like it being too hot for walking. Possible rain after lunch.
This was pretty well what we got, and with only intermittent sunshine it made it really pleasant conditions for walking. After lunch we did get a feeling of dampness in the air, never enough to declare it was raining or needed us to put waterproofs on or use an umbrella.
The main objective today was to see if we could get up close to The Temple in Temple Wood. Initially one path we hoped to use was on private land and did not allow access, so we ended up walking through Temple Wood past The Temple. After emerging from the wood, we noticed a path through the grass which we followed and to our delight it ended at The Temple – main objective achieved!
The next objective was where to have lunch, and we opted to aim for Chirk Castle and use the many seats / picnic tables available in the “Meditation Garden”. Our route involved linking in with the access track to the castle, well over two miles and seemed to go on for ever!
Arriving at the Castle Main Car park are, we found it very busy, but thankfully we had our chosen lunch spot to ourselves.
After lunch we only had about 2 miles to go, following a pleasant concessionary path through the park back to Chirk.
Ed, wanted to g through the canal tunnel, but I vetoed the ide and we went back to the start past the “chocolate factory”, although today there was no smell to detected to say chocolate was being made to today.
Birds seen or heard today: Common buzzard, Carrion crow, Barn swallow, Carrion crow, Woodpigeon, Mallard and Common pheasant.
We arrived back at the cars having had a good walk, all objectives achieved and looking forward to a pint of the Titanic Brewery’s Plum Porter at the Pant-y-y-Ochain, Objective three achieved as well!
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