Saint Mwrog and Saint Mary's Church ay Llanfwrog.
The north side of Saint Mwrog and Saint Mary's Church ay Llanfwrog.
Our first views of the Clwydian Hills.
Just about better than the old stile!
The Afon Clywedog from the footbridge leading to Lady Bagot's Drive.
Looking north east down Lady Bagot's Drive.
The Afon Clywedog, alongside Lady Bagot's Drive.
This is where we leave Lady Bagot's Drive to enter Coed Nant.
The delightful path through Coed Nant.
Another good view of the Clwydian Hills as we headed towards Rhewl
after leaving Coed Nant.
A Welsh poem on the road bridge north west of Rhewl.
There is bench an OS mark there as well.
The view from my lunch spot in Rhewl.
That's the way Ed.
The obligatory Moel Famau photo,
Ed points to the trig point.
The trig point at OS SJ10966147.
The "friendly" herd of cows, calves and a bull.
Are they really friendly looks?
Riverside flowers, but what are they?
Water boatmen on the Afon Clwyd, soth of the weir.
Distance: 10.4 miles. Climb: 714’Time: 4 hours 54 minutes.
On the move walking average: 2.0 m.p.h.
Overall walk average: 1.4 m.p.h.
Temperature: 17.2 Celsius to 20.2 Celsius.
Beaufort Wind Force: 0 - 3 Mainly a very pleasant Light breeze, although it did gust to just make the strength of a Gentle breeze as we walked by the Afon Clwyd.
Group: Martyn and Ed.
The forecast for today was pretty good for walking, mainly dry, not too hot and only a Light breeze at times. However, as we arrived at Ruthin it stared to rain, enough for Ed to decide it was worth putting on his waterproof jacket. I decided to wait to see if it got worse and I would use my umbrella. Thankfully it didn’t I walked all day in short sleeves. Ed ended up putting on and taking off his waterproof jacket, before deciding his rucksack was the best place for it!
The bonus today was lots of the stiles on this walk had been replaced with kissing gates.
Arriving at Lady Bagot’s Drive to find another group of 21 ramblers ahead of us, but thankfully we were able to overtake them, expecting see them again when we stopped for lunch. We didn’t see them again, so we assumed they must have stopped for lunch before getting back to Rhewl.
This walk always gives good views of the Clwydian Hills, and today was no exception.
Lunch was taken at Rhewl, where we were able to take advantage of one of the benches near the bus stop.
After lunch, we headed down a path that we had taken on previous walks from Rhewl, unfortunately it wasn’t the one we really wanted! Having realised too late, we decided to extend the walk and see if we could find the elusive trig point at SJ10966147 which was marked on the OS map at a junction of roads north west of Bro Deg. In the past we have failed to spot it even when we knew its Grid ref.
Today, Ed was the first to spot it, and after clearing some of the vegetation from around it, I was able to take a photo of it.
The only difficulty we had today, was a field of cows with lots of calves and resident bull. Trying to keep a wide berth, just seem to encourage the whole herd to get up and head towards us, thankfully hey did stop about 50m away and we able to escape from the field.
The most interesting thing seen today was an old Lancaster bomber flying overhead.
No Dippers today on the Afon Clwyd, although we did see lots of Water boatmen on a quieter section of the river.
Birds seen or heard today: House sparrow, Common blackbird, Common buzzard, Grey heron, Grey wagtail, Pied wagtail, Mute swan, Common coot, Woodpigeon, Goldfinch, Wood nuthatch, Black billed magpie and Carion crow.
We arrived back at the car, knowing we had had a really enjoyable walk, but decided to wait until I arrived at home before enjoying a refreshing drink. It didn’t seem worth the effort to walk up the hill to the Ruthin Castle (Wetherspoons) just for a cup of tea!
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