Page 21 - Cracking Walks - Energetic

Walk 6 Llangattock Hillside
History, Nature and Vistas
GRADE Energetic
WALK 12km/71⁄2 miles
ASCENT 425m/1400ft
TIME 41⁄2 - 5 hours
TERRAIN Quiet lanes, fields and rough stony paths.
14 stiles, mostly without dog gates. Sheep and some cattle grazing.
Take in the whole southward view from Crickhowell, climbing Llangattock Hillside, traversing the old quarry tramways and Craig y Cilau National Nature Reserve before heading back down to Crickhowell by farm tracks and the ‘Mon & Brec’ Canal.
CrossCrickhowellBridge A andturnlefttowardsGilwern.About100mpasttheLlangattockturn,a footpath sign on the left points to a right turn into a house driveway to find a gate into a field, and then another gate on the right into the wood. On emerging from it, turn left along a farm driveway and cross a stream. Enter the field ahead through a green kissing gate and turn right towards a conifer wood. Go through the metal gate, up through the wood and across a field to canal bridge 112 B .
Cross the bridge and two fields to a lane. Turn left along the road and at the next bend turn right up a driveway. Go through a gate on the left after the house and gradually ascend a rough lane passing a bat roost in a former chapel and a house. Continue along driveway up to a road C .
For more information please go to www.walkersarewelcomeincrickhowell.org.uk 19