719 walks across Wales

• Montgomery and the Border

  Montgomery Town Hill

  Field paths above a Georgian town square, taking in the castle ruins and the ridge, with the Severn plain spread out east.

  3.1 mi1 hr 40 Moderate
• Montgomery and the Border

  Church Stoke and Corndon Hill

  Border walk with a Bronze Age stone circle on the way and a summit that straddles Wales and England, with almost no climbing until the end.

  5.0 mi2 hr 55 Demanding
• Teifi Valley

  Drefach Felindre and the Wool Trail

  A self-guided walk round the village that was the centre of the Welsh woollen industry, with mills, drying fields and the museum at its heart.

  3.1 mi1 hr 45 Moderate
• Ceredigion Coast

  Coast Path: Llanrhystud to Aberystwyth

  Dramatic and lonely stretch of the Ceredigion heritage coast, with hillforts on the clifftops and very little between the two ends.

  6.8 mi4 hr 10 Strenuous
• Ceredigion Coast

  Llanon and the Morfa Strip Fields

  One of the last surviving medieval open field systems in Britain, laid out in narrow strips between the village and the sea.

  3.1 mi1 hr 40 Easy
• Teifi Valley

  Llanddewi Brefi

  Field paths around a village whose church stands on the mound where, by tradition, the ground rose beneath St David as he preached.

  3.7 mi2 hr 5 Moderate
• Upper Wye Valley

  Llanwrthwl and the Wye

  Riverside and farmland on the Wye Valley Walk below the Elan hills, with a standing stone in the churchyard older than the church.

  3.7 mi2 hr 5 Moderate
• Radnorshire

  Llanbadarn Fynydd

  Glyndŵr’s Way country in the Ithon valley, with hillforts on the tops and a village that is little more than a pub and a church.

  4.3 mi2 hr 35 Demanding
• Radnorshire

  Llananno

  A small church by the Ithon holding the finest rood screen in Wales, carved in the late fifteenth century and somehow still here.

  3.1 mi1 hr 45 Moderate
• Radnorshire

  Abbeycwmhir

  The ruins of an abbey whose nave would have been the longest in Wales, in a hidden valley, with Llywelyn the Last buried under a slab of slate.

  3.7 mi2 hr 10 Moderate
• Radnorshire

  The Ithon at Llanbister Road

  A rural halt on the Heart of Wales line with riverside paths along the Ithon and nothing else for miles.

  3.1 mi1 hr 45 Moderate
• Severn Valley and Newtown

  Dolfor and the Kerry Hills

  Hill farmland south of Newtown on Glyndŵr’s Way, with the Kerry Ridgeway on the skyline and long views into Radnorshire.

  4.3 mi2 hr 35 Demanding
• Severn Valley and Newtown

  Llanwnog

  A church with a fine medieval rood screen and the grave of a poet who was also a station master, with hill paths above the Severn valley.

  3.7 mi2 hr 10 Moderate
• Cambrian Mountains

  Trefeglwys and the Trannon Valley

  Quiet hill farmland between the Severn and the Clywedog, with wind farms on the ridges and the Cambrians rising west.

  4.3 mi2 hr 35 Demanding
• Berwyn and Lake Vyrnwy

  Llangynog and the Craig Rhiwarth Quarries

  Slate and lead workings on a crag above the village, with a hillfort on top and the Berwyn closing in at the head of the valley.

  4.3 mi2 hr 45 Demanding
• Berwyn and Lake Vyrnwy

  Pennant Melangell

  Church at the head of a dead-end valley holding the oldest Romanesque shrine in northern Europe, still standing where it was built.

  3.7 mi2 hr 20 Demanding
• Berwyn and Lake Vyrnwy

  Ann Griffiths Country

  Field paths around the church where the greatest Welsh hymn writer is buried, on the walk she made to chapel and back all her short life.

  3.7 mi2 hr 10 Moderate
• Montgomery and the Border

  Guilsfield

  Quiet farmland north of Welshpool, with a church holding a fine carved ceiling and the Breidden hills filling the eastern view.

  3.7 mi2 hr 5 Moderate
• Montgomery and the Border

  Llansantffraid and the Vyrnwy

  Riverside meadows on the lower Vyrnwy where the hills give way to the Severn plain, with big skies and quiet water.

  3.7 mi2 hr Moderate

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