Walks Around the Berwyn Mountains Guidebook

by: David Berry
The Berwyn Range and the Ceiriog Valley is a beautiful unspoilt and relatively unknown area of north east Wales, offering great walking opportunities, free from the crowds. The Berwyn Range is a large wild remote upland landscape of mountain, hill, and extensive heather moorland, much of it now Open Access land.

The highest peak is Cadair Berwyn at 2,722 feet and nearby is Pistyll Rhaeadr, at 240 feet, the highest waterfall in England and Wales. From the region's heart flows the Ceiriog River which meanders eastwards from Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog beneath part-wooded slopes and rolling hills through Glyn Ceiriog to the border town of Chirk. The area has a network of ancient tracks used by monks from Valle Crucis Abbey and later drovers.

The 32 walks in this book range from an easy 1.75 miles stroll around Chirk Castle estate to a challenging 13 mile Berwyn Mountain ridge walk. Many individual routes, as well as containing shorter walk options, can easily be linked with others, to provide longer day walks if required; each walk has a detailed map and route description as well as an overview of the walk features, distance, estimated time, and direction to the starting point.

The walk locations are:
Around Chirk - 5 miles
Chirk Castle - 1.75 miles
Offa's Dyke and Chirk Castle - 6.5 miles
Offa's Dyke and Canal - 9 miles
Pontfadog, Coed Pen-craig and Offa's dyke - 5.25 miles
Above Pontfadog - 6 miles
Llangollen and Y Foel - 8.5 miles
Glyn Ceiriog and Vivod Mountain - 9 miles
Moel Fferna Quarry - 7.5 miles
Glyndyfrdwy and Moel Fferna - 8.75 miles
Glyn Ceiriog and Coed Collfryn - 5 miles
Pandy Tramway - 6 miles
Springfield Wood, near Pandy - 4.5 miles
Pen-y-Gwely - 8.25 miles
Cefn-Hir-fynydd - 4.75 miles
Bwlch-adwy-wynt - 8 miles
Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog and Bryn Ddu - 4.25 miles
Ceiriog Gorge - 9 miles
Tomle and Cadair Berwyn - 9.25 miles
Pistyll Rhaeadr - 3 miles
Cadair Berwyn and Pistyll Rhaeadr - 6 miles
Y Clogydd and Pistyll Rhaeadr - 8.75 miles
Llangynog - 2.25 miles
Llangynog and Moel Crynddyn - 4.5 miles
The Berwyn Round, from Llandrillo - 13 miles
Cadair Berwyn and Cadair Bronwen - 10 miles
Berwyn Fringes from Llandrillo - 2.75 miles
Cadair Bronwen, from Llandrillo - 10 miles
Pont Rhyd-yr-hydd - 9.5 miles
Corwen to Llidiart y Parc - 10 miles linear

ISBN 9781902302621 Pages 40 (2008) 148mm x 210mm