3. a foot in both camps - Shropshire Walking

Offa’s Dyke Path Circular Walks
3. a foot in both camps
Five walks on the Shropshire border - Llanymynech walk
Straddle the border on this walk of wonders. Offa’s engineers took a
short cut to meet their King’s demands, marking the mineral wealth
of Llanymynech as Mercian by building on the ramparts of a much
earlier and massive Iron Age fort. The Romans were first to mine
here, pre-dating Offa’s engineers by some margin. But Victorian
engineering surpassed them all, cutting these steep cliffs and
building canals and railways to remove their spoils.
STaRT/FiNiSh POiNT
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Parking: Llanymynech Limeworks
Heritage Area (SJ 266210) or
Llanymynech car park behind the
Dolphin Inn and General Stores
(SJ 266210).
Walk ROuTe
Distance: 10km (6¼ miles)
Time: 3½ – 4 hrs
DiFFiCulTY
START in Llanymynech on the
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canal bridge over the Montgomery
Canal (No 92) on the A483. Follow the
canal tow path east (into England), passing
the bridge abutments where the old
railway crossed the canal, onto the canal
road bridge. Continue under and straight
on along what remains of the tow path,
then up and over the embankment of the
old railway. Then follow a better defined
tow path over a stile to another stile in
front of the canal road bridge (No 90).
This is the site of the Old Pant
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Warf (details on a panel by the
bridge). Follow the tow path for short
distance then over two stiles. From here
the canal and tow path bends around to
the right to meet another canal road
bridge. Do not go through the wooden
wicket gate, but go up the side of the
bridge onto the road and over the canal.
The road bends to the left here,
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but the walk bears right down and
over the stile to cross the field towards a
clump of trees and cross the stile in the
hedge. Head up towards the trees and the
stile and old gate. Continue into the lefthand
corner of the field to the stile, and
then follow the right-hand side of the
hedge over the stile by a gate, past a
natural mound on the right to a double
stile by an electricity pole. Go across the
field then over the stile in the line of oak
trees. Continue to the stile and gate by
the houses and the road (B4398).
Cross the road (with care) and
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walk along the pavement towards
the Llynclys terminus of the Cambrian
Heritage Railway. Continue over the
bridge to the crossroads at the White
Lion and go straight across the road
(with care). Follow the pavement to the
houses and the sign for Turner’s Lane.
Cross over and go along the lane
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to just past the Nature Reserve
information board. Turn right along the
bridleway and up the sunken track into
the Reserve to the fork in track.
Bear left up the bank to the
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next junction, turn left to the
“T” junction and go right along the
obvious track past the information board
on the right. At the “T” junction head
straight on then down to the house, past
the information board on your right.
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Bear right along the track to join
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the stone wall on the left. Take
the minor track on the right through the
trees, keeping right at the junctions until
the entrance gates to a house. Turn right
to the information board and steps at the
edge of the escarpment.
Go up the steps known as ‘Jacob’s
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Ladder’ and follow the path to a
good view point. Continue along the
edge, crossing several stiles, and through
a kissing gate to meet Offa’s Dyke Path.
Follow the National Trail straight
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on to the stile crossing the
England / Wales border. Continue along
the edge of the golf course and through
the Nature Reserve to reach the old
winding house on the left.
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listen to it here.
Continue straight ahead through
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the wooden kissing gate and
leave the National Trail to drop down
to the right. Follow the bridleway with
the quarry face on the left to reach the
reconstructed winding house. Don’t miss
the view point on the right.
Turn right and walk down the
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English inclined plane, through
the kissing gate to bear right through the
tunnel under the road. Continue, keeping
right to pass the Tally House on the left.
Follow the track and then go left
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between the old railway abutments
following the track to the Hoffmann Kiln.
Go past the kiln down the steps
turning right then left past the old 13
stables building following the track
back to the start.
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Offa’s Dyke Path Circular Walks
1 mile
1 kilometre
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Ty-gwyn
Porth-y-waen
Blodwel
Hall
Fron-goch
Llanymynech
Hill
White
Rock
Pen y
Foel
Pen-y-coed
I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I
The Mount
START/FINISH 1
Porth-y-waen
Llanymynech
Hill
8
START/FINISH 1
9
10 11
Pen-y-coed
Blodwel
3. a foot in Hall both camps
Ty-gwyn
Fron-goch
White
Rock
Pen y
Foel
I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I
The Mount
12
Hoffman
Kiln
13
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12
Hoffman
Kiln
Crickheath
Hill
Llanymynech
Crickheath
Hill
Five walks on the Shropshire 9 border - Llanymynech walk
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10 11
Whitehaven Pant
6
Pant
Nuttree
Farm
Llynclys
Hill
Llanymynech
5
Plas
cerrig
Lower
House
Llynclys
Farm
Plas
cerrig
2
Lower
House
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Tycoch
Farm
Tycoch
Farm
Waen
Wen
KEY
Waen
Wen
Llynclys
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3
4
New
House
New
House
Main walk route
Roads
Tracks / paths
Offa’s Dyke
Offa’s Dyke Path
Bridleways
Footpaths
England/Wales
border
Access land
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