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Walk 3 – SELATTYN VIEWS MEDIUM WALK • Approximately 3 miles • TIME about 1 hour Park at the Butchers Arms, The Wern, Weston Rhyn. This is a walk with outstanding views across the <strong>Shropshire</strong> Plain, Weston Rhyn, St Martins, Gobowen, The Wrekin, Nesscliffe, Cheshire, Wrexham. Down lane directly opposite the car park, past cottages, through the field gate/stile, continue straight ahead to gate/stile by stream. Across next field bearing left to opposite hedge, over 3rd stile and straight ahead to 4th stile, turn right into Tyn-Y-Celyn Farm drive, at T-junction (20 metres) post box on right, turn left onto lane. Next left into Dinas Lane, up the bank, bear left at Dinas Cottage, continue up the hill 1 ⁄4 mile, ignore farm track to Fron Farm on right. Fron Farmhouse dates from 1692. The lane takes a sharp turn to the left, then right and up another hill. (*) At cross roads, turn left down the hill, left again at next cross roads and return to the Butcher's Arms. This road is busy at times. Buzzards now breed in the area, once more, and can be seen soaring and heard "mewing" when quartering the land in search of prey. Walk 4 – MORLAS BROOK MEDIUM WALK • Approximately 4 miles • TIME about 1 1 ⁄2 hours As Walk 3 until (*). As Walk 3 until (*) At crossroads, straight ahead into lane opposite, continue about 1 ⁄2 mile, road dips down steeply, there is a water pumping box on the left and a track leading down towards the Morlas Brook, go down the track and across wooden bridge, turn right into lane, past Nant Isaf Hall on left, keep on this lane past cottage and lane on the right until you reach Dingle Cottage (there is a track to the left Nant Ffynodd Lane) take the steep, right-hand path going up behind the cottage until you reach Top Fron Farm, turn left onto farm drive and quick right. Walk straight down this lane ( 3 ⁄4 mile) to cross roads, turn left to return to the Butchers Arms, this road is busy at times. The cellar at the Butcher’s Arms was once used as a slaughterhouse – hence the name. The area has a history of coal mining and lime kilns, the kilns were used to burn lime for fertilisers, there were corn mills, fulling mills and paper mills along the Morlas Brook. The paper mills used wood pulp and rags to produce various products including the blue paper once used to line sugar bags.
Walk 5 – CHAPEL IN THE VALLEY LONGER WALK • Approximately 5 miles • TIME about 2 3 ⁄4 hours As Walk 3 until (*). At Cross Roads turn right up the hill, straight on at cross roads, along lane marked unsuitable for heavy goods vehicles. Fron Rough woodland on right, bit of a drop and stream on the left, carry on until you come to a cottage on the left and Craignant Chapel on the right, road bends round to the left, at the top of bank join the Offas Dyke Path down to the right, past lime kilns and then up track to junction with lane, turn right, past Upper Craignant Farm, continue to the cross roads turn left, keep straight on down the hill ( 3 ⁄4 mile) until cross roads, turn left to return to the Butchers Arms, this road is busy at times. On a clear day you can see the village of Weston Rhyn nestling in the foothills, the expanse known as the <strong>Shropshire</strong> Plain and the defined outlines of Nesscliffe and The Wrekin. You can also see across to Chirk, Wrexham, Cheshire, Deeside and the Peak District. Henry II and his army marched across the land between Oswestry and Weston Rhyn to reach the River Ceiriog where the Battle of Crogen took place. Walk 6 – THE RIVER WALK SHORT WALK • Approximately 2 1 ⁄2 miles • TIME about 1 hour This is a walk along the banks of the River Ceiriog. Park by Telephone Kiosk at Pontfaen Bridge (2 cars). Cross stile into field adjacent to Telephone Kiosk, continue with River Ceiriog on the right until you reach Woodland Trust stile into woods, straight ahead through the woods and up some steps. Leave the woods via a stile – good views of Chirk Castle, follow path past a magnificent oak tree to next stile into green lane, continue through gates through a small holding, straight up driveway to meet main Bronygarth Road, turn left, up bank to S-bend. *At S bend take stile on left back into woods, continue down steps, through the woods, rejoin path at Woodlands Trust stile and return across field to Telephone Kiosk. (*or continue along Bronygarth Road to next road on the left, down steep hill to Telephone Kiosk. Chirk Castle was built by Edward I as a border stronghold to control the Welsh. It is reputed that after the Battle of Crogen in 1165, between the Welsh and Henry II’s army, the River Ceiriog ran red with blood, and that Owain Gwynedd, Prince of Wales slept at Tyn-y-Rhos Hall.
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