719 walks across Wales

• Ceredigion Coast

  Devil’s Bridge Falls

  Three bridges stacked one on top of another over a gorge, and a staircase of a hundred steps down to a series of waterfalls. Paid entry, and worth it.

  1.6 mi1 hr 10 Demanding
• Teifi Valley

  Strata Florida

  The ruins of the abbey that was the intellectual heart of medieval Wales, in an empty valley on the western edge of the Cambrians.

  3.7 mi2 hr 10 Moderate
• Teifi Valley

  Cilgerran Gorge and the Teifi Marshes

  A castle on a crag above a wooded gorge, with a wetland reserve downstream where otters and water buffalo share the same marsh.

  3.1 mi1 hr 45 Moderate
• Tywi Valley and Carmarthen

  Dinefwr Park

  Medieval deer park below a castle on a bluff over the Tywi, with three hundred veteran oaks and a herd of white park cattle that has been here for a thousand years.

  3.4 mi1 hr 50 Moderate
• Tywi Valley and Carmarthen

  Carreg Cennen

  The most dramatically sited castle in Wales, on a limestone crag three hundred feet above the river, with a passage cut into the rock leading to a cave below the walls.

  2.8 mi1 hr 40 Moderate
• Bannau Brycheiniog: Black Mountain

  Llyn y Fan Fach

  Glacial lake under a curving escarpment on the Black Mountain, tied to one of the best known Welsh legends, and the finest mountain scenery in Carmarthenshire.

  5.6 mi3 hr 30 Demanding
• Carmarthenshire Coast

  Pembrey Burrows and Cefn Sidan

  Pine forest and dunes behind an eight-mile beach, with firm level tracks through the woods and the sand stretching further than you can see.

  3.7 mi2 hr Easy
• Carmarthenshire Coast

  Llanelli Wetland Centre

  Level surfaced paths and boardwalks through lagoons and reedbeds on the Loughor estuary, with hides throughout and a great deal to look at in winter.

  2.5 mi1 hr 30 Easy
• Carmarthenshire Coast

  The Dylan Thomas Birthday Walk

  A waymarked route from Laugharne along the Taf estuary, past the boathouse where Thomas lived and the shed where he wrote, following the poem he set on this ground.

  3.1 mi1 hr 45 Moderate
• Gower

  Rhossili Down and Worms Head

  Three miles of beach, a whaleback hill above it and a tidal island shaped like a sea serpent at the end. The most photographed view in south Wales and it earns it.

  4.3 mi2 hr 30 Moderate
• Gower

  Three Cliffs Bay

  River winding through dunes to a beach guarded by three limestone spikes, with a ruined castle above. Probably the best short walk in Wales.

  3.7 mi2 hr 10 Moderate
• Gower

  Oxwich Point

  A long sandy bay backed by a national nature reserve of dune, marsh and woodland, with a wooded point at one end and a church hidden in the trees.

  4.0 mi2 hr 15 Moderate
• Gower

  Llanrhidian Marsh

  The quiet side of Gower: saltmarsh running out to the Loughor estuary, grazed by sheep and ponies, with cockle beds beyond and almost no visitors.

  4.3 mi2 hr 20 Moderate
• Gower

  Cefn Bryn and Arthur’s Stone

  The spine of Gower, a ridge of old red sandstone running the length of the peninsula, with a huge Neolithic capstone on top and a view over both coasts at once.

  3.7 mi2 hr Moderate
• Swansea and Neath

  Clyne Valley

  Old railway through wooded valley from Swansea Bay, surfaced and level the whole way, with the remains of coal and brick works hidden in the trees.

  5.0 mi2 hr 20 Moderate
• Swansea and Neath

  Mumbles Head to Langland

  Round the headland from the pier and lighthouse to a run of small bays with Edwardian beach huts, on the first stretch of the Gower coast.

  3.7 mi2 hr Moderate
• Swansea and Neath

  Melincourt Falls

  Eighty-foot waterfall in a wooded side valley off the Neath, reached in twenty minutes on a good path. Painted by Turner and still worth the detour.

  1.6 mi55 min Moderate
• Swansea and Neath

  Aberdulais Falls and the Canal

  Waterfall that powered industry for four hundred years, now driving the largest electricity-generating waterwheel in Europe, with a canal and aqueduct alongside.

  1.9 mi1 hr Easy
• Swansea and Neath

  Penllergare Valley Woods

  Restored Victorian pleasure ground in a wooded valley, laid out by a pioneer of photography who took some of the earliest landscape photographs in Britain here.

  2.8 mi1 hr 30 Easy
• Rhondda and the Western Valleys

  Penrhys and the Rhondda Ridges

  The ridge between the two Rhondda valleys, with terraced rows a long way below on both sides and open mountain in between. The Valleys are far greener than people expect.

  5.0 mi2 hr 40 Moderate
• Rhondda and the Western Valleys

  Cwm Clydach

  RSPB reserve in a steep oak-wooded valley, with pied flycatchers and redstarts in spring and almost nobody there at any time of year.

  3.1 mi1 hr 50 Moderate
• Caerphilly and the Eastern Valleys

  Caerphilly Mountain and the Castle

  The ridge above Caerphilly, with the second largest castle in Britain spread out below and Cardiff and the Bristol Channel beyond it.

  3.7 mi2 hr Moderate
• Caerphilly and the Eastern Valleys

  Twmbarlwm

  The pimple on the skyline that half of Gwent grew up looking at, with a Norman motte on top of an Iron Age fort and a view over the Severn to Somerset.

  3.7 mi2 hr 10 Demanding
• Usk Valley and Abergavenny

  The Blorenge and Keeper’s Pond

  A mountain rising straight out of the Usk valley, with the industrial landscape of Blaenavon behind it and one of the great views in south Wales from the top.

  4.3 mi2 hr 30 Demanding
• Cardiff and the Vale

  Garth Mountain

  The hill that was allegedly measured and found wanting in the film about an Englishman going up a hill and coming down a mountain, with four Bronze Age barrows on top.

  3.1 mi1 hr 50 Moderate
• Cardiff and the Vale

  Glamorgan Heritage Coast

  Layered limestone cliffs like stacked masonry running for miles above a wave-cut platform, with a walled garden and a lost house at the start.

  5.0 mi2 hr 40 Moderate
• Cardiff and the Vale

  Cosmeston Lakes

  Flooded limestone quarries turned into a country park, with a reconstructed medieval village on the site of a real deserted one, and level paths throughout.

  2.5 mi1 hr 20 Easy
• Monmouthshire and the Lower Wye

  Wentwood Forest

  The largest ancient woodland in Wales, on a ridge between the Usk and the Wye, with a Bronze Age standing stone and views over the Severn.

  4.3 mi2 hr 20 Moderate
• Monmouthshire and the Lower Wye

  Tintern and the Devil’s Pulpit

  Steep climb through hanging woods to a limestone outcrop looking straight down on the abbey, which is the view everyone has seen and few have stood at.

  3.7 mi2 hr 20 Demanding
• Usk Valley and Abergavenny

  The Sugar Loaf

  A conical hill above Abergavenny with a summit ridge of bare rock and a view over the Usk valley, the Black Mountains and the Bristol Channel.

  4.3 mi2 hr 30 Demanding
• Usk Valley and Abergavenny

  Skirrid Fawr

  The holy mountain, split down one side by an ancient landslip, with the foundations of a medieval chapel on the summit ridge and a long view in every direction.

  3.1 mi2 hr Demanding
• Newport and the Gwent Levels

  Newport Wetlands

  Reedbeds, lagoons and saltmarsh on the Severn estuary, with a lighthouse on the sea wall and starling roosts in winter that draw people from across the country.

  3.1 mi1 hr 40 Easy
• Newport and the Gwent Levels

  The Gwent Levels at Redwick

  Flat grazing marsh below sea level, drained since Roman times and cut by a grid of reens, with a sea wall holding back the Severn and enormous skies.

  3.4 mi1 hr 45 Easy
• North Pembrokeshire Coast

  St Non’s Bay and Caerfai

  A short coastal loop from the city, past the ruined chapel and holy well where St David is said to have been born during a thunderstorm.

  3.1 mi1 hr 50 Moderate
• North Pembrokeshire Coast

  Abereiddi and the Blue Lagoon

  Flooded slate quarry with startlingly blue water, cut through to the sea, and a coast path north to the abandoned quarry village at Porthgain.

  3.7 mi2 hr 10 Moderate
• North Pembrokeshire Coast

  Carningli

  The mountain of angels, rising straight out of a small coastal town, with a hillfort and hut circles scattered across a summit of broken rock.

  4.7 mi2 hr 50 Demanding
• South Pembrokeshire Coast

  Tenby and Waterwynch

  Out of a walled town with painted houses along the cliffs north, past a lifeboat station and a series of small coves.

  3.7 mi2 hr Moderate
• South Pembrokeshire Coast

  Manorbier and the Kings Quoit

  A castle looking straight down on a beach, a Neolithic burial chamber on the cliff edge, and a stretch of coast path that Gerald of Wales thought the finest place in the country.

  4.0 mi2 hr 20 Moderate
• South Pembrokeshire Coast

  Broad Haven to Little Haven

  Two beaches a mile apart linked by a clifftop path, with the option of walking between them on the sand when the tide allows.

  3.1 mi1 hr 50 Moderate
• Preseli Hills

  Cwm Gwaun

  Deep wooded meltwater valley cut by glacial floodwater, running between the Preselis and the sea, where the old calendar is still celebrated.

  4.0 mi2 hr 20 Moderate
• Preseli Hills

  Llys-y-Frân Reservoir

  Full circuit of a reservoir below the Preselis on a made path, with woodland, water birds and the hills as a backdrop the whole way round.

  5.0 mi2 hr 30 Moderate
• Ceredigion Coast

  Aberaeron and the Coast Path

  Planned Georgian harbour town of painted houses, with the coast path running out along low cliffs in both directions.

  3.1 mi1 hr 40 Moderate
• Ceredigion Coast

  Ynyslas Dunes and the Dyfi Estuary

  Great dune system at the mouth of the Dyfi, with a submerged forest on the beach at low tide and Aberdyfi across the water.

  3.1 mi1 hr 40 Easy
• Ceredigion Coast

  Llangrannog and Ynys Lochtyn

  Beach village with a rock stack on the sand, and a steep climb to a headland with an island at the end of it and one of the great Ceredigion views.

  3.4 mi2 hr Demanding
• Ceredigion Coast

  Borth Cliffs to Wallog

  South from a long shingle beach onto cliffs that climb steadily, with a shingle ridge running out to sea at Wallog and Aberystwyth beyond.

  4.3 mi2 hr 30 Demanding
• Teifi Valley

  Cwm Rheidol

  Steep wooded valley below Devil’s Bridge, with a hydro station, an old lead mine and a narrow gauge railway winding along the hillside above.

  5.0 mi2 hr 50 Demanding
• Teifi Valley

  Cors Caron

  One of the finest raised bogs in Britain, crossed by a boardwalk and an old railway line, with red kites overhead and otters in the ditches.

  3.1 mi1 hr 35 Easy
• Teifi Valley

  Llanybydder and the Teifi

  Quiet farmland and riverbank in the middle Teifi valley, in a village best known for a horse fair that has run for centuries.

  3.7 mi2 hr 5 Moderate
• Tywi Valley and Carmarthen

  Aberglasney and Grongar Hill

  Field paths from a restored garden up to the hill that inspired one of the first landscape poems in English, with the Tywi valley below.

  3.1 mi1 hr 45 Moderate
• Carmarthenshire Coast

  Llansteffan Castle and the Tywi Estuary

  Castle on a green headland above the mouth of the Tywi, with a beach below and views across to Laugharne.

  3.1 mi1 hr 45 Moderate

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