TWF2023-22 Historic Routes in the Black Mountains

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A 4 Boot Walk. Starting from the site of an old drovers’ inn we will follow a steep medieval route, thought to be used by Welsh drovers on their way south to Abergavenny, high up into the Black Mountains. Our route follows a ridgeway, that may have been favoured by drovers, and then loops back to the Grwyne  Fawr Reservoir, visiting a bothy before returning on a track used by quarrymen and labourers from Talgarth working on the reservoir. 

 Sponsored by GlanPant and The Star Bunkhouse

A 4 Boot Walk. Starting from the site of an old drovers’ inn we will follow a steep medieval route, thought to be used by Welsh drovers on their way south to Abergavenny, high up into the Black Mountains. Our route follows a ridgeway, that may have been favoured by drovers, and then loops back to the Grwyne  Fawr Reservoir, visiting a bothy before returning on a track used by quarrymen and labourers from Talgarth working on the reservoir. 

 Sponsored by GlanPant and The Star Bunkhouse

How to Find the Starting Point: Rhos Fach Common, Site of the Six Bells Inn

Download the What3words app on your phone, and use the following address which will take you to the exact 3x3 metre square where this walk will start:

https://w3w.co/whisker.poker.tree

Start Time: 10.00

End Time: 16.00

Time: 6 hrs

Distance: 14.7 km / 9.1 miles

Ascent: 540 m / 1772 ft

Leader: Mark Davis and Emma Harrison

Packed Lunch: Bring Your Own

GPX Route File Download: TWF2023-22.gpx

Alternatively, here at the latitude and longitude coordinates and Map Grid Reference for the walk start location:

51.992467 , -3.184721

Map Grid Reference: SO 187 333

Walk Leaders: Mark Davis and Emma Harrison