Walks Around Aberystwyth and Cwm Rheidol Guidebook

by: Des Marshall
To those prepared to venture on foot from Aberystwyth there is a plethora of beautiful walks. Sessile oak trees add a feeling of eccentricity to many of these with their contorted trunks and branches. This area has some of the most beautiful waterfalls, rivers and streams in Wales, all of which have had much written about them. Plynlimon too, is easily reached and makes a fine walk with the remote valleys to the north of it being the scene of many a battle in the days of Owen Glyndwr.

Whatever your level of fitness you will find in this guide walks to suit all abilities and tastes. Distances for the 24 walks are mainly between 3 and 7 miles and each walk is graded as easy, moderate or strenuous. The route directions and accompanying sketch maps are sufficiently detailed to follow the route without further help. A brief outline of each route together with an estimate of the time that should be allowed is given at the beginning of each walk.

The walk locations are:
Borth to Aberystwyth - 6 miles linear
Crossing the Rheidol from Ysbyty Cynfyn - 3 miles
Ascent of Pumlumon Fawr - 5.5 miles
Source of the Rheidol from Maesnant - 3.5 miles
Devil's Bridge and the Afon Mynach - 6 miles
Aberystwyth and the Afon Ystwyth
Pendinas
Cwm Rheidol and Castell Bwa-Drain - 4 miles
Cwm Rheidol and Lower Falls - 3 miles
Nant Yr Arian Ridge - 3 miles
Upper Cwm Rheidol and Upper Falls - 3.5 miles
Middle Cwm Rheidol and Upper Falls - 4 miles
Cwm Rheidol, Afon Rheidol and Rheidol Falls - 6 miles
The Rheidol Roundabout - 13 miles
Trisant Lakes - 4.5 miles
Cefn Cwmbrwyno
Teifi Pools - 7 miles
Coed Maen Arthur - 2.5 miles
Woodland Walk above Afon Ystwyth - 3 miles
Craig Y Pistyll, LLyn Craigypistyll and Llyn Syfydrin - 5 miles
Cwmsymlog and Llyn Rhosgoch - 4 miles
Hafod Circular - 7 miles
The Arch panorama - 2.5 miles

ISBN 9781902302638 Pages 40 (2018) 148mm x 210mm