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Ramble 6 Where the curlew calls A very pleasant walk through fields and woods with wonderful views Distance: 5.5 miles (9km) Start: Public car park in Trellech on B4293 Grid Ref: 501053 1 Keep left at a fork by a gate (signed Penarth Brook) and continue to two stiles by a gate. Go ahead for 30m and bear right up a slope with a fence on your left. Then bear left, keep the fence on your left and follow waymarks down to a bridge over a stream and a gateway on the left. Cross and go up a short slope to a fingerpost (Llanishen). Turn right then go ahead with woods on your right. Cross a double stile in a dip. Ignore a path to the right and go into the next field (signed Llanishen). Go ahead with woods on your right to a short drop to a wooden bridge in a copse and up to a gate (just before an oak tree with a barn owl) leading into another field. Go ahead with the wood on your right for 350 yds to a wooden gate. Go ahead into the next field with the fence on your left, through two more gates to reach a metalled road at Pant Glas Farm. Turn right and follow the road downhill to the entrance to "Woodlands".

2 Go through the gateway to the house (signed Woolpitch Wood) and turn right in front of the house. Go up the track for 100 yds to a clearing and take a narrow path on the right along the edge of the wood to stile and up steps up to a forest road. Turn left and after 100 yds turn left down steps at a fingerpost (Trellech Furnace). Go down to a stream at the bottom (Penarth Brook). Cross stepping stones and bear left up a steep path leading into a wood. Follow waymark posts up to a stile at the edge of the wood. Cross and follow the right field edge for 200 yds to stile by large ash tree. Cross and go diagonally across a field to stile into Alpine Farm. Turn left and follow the farm road for 400 yds to Upper Cae Garw Farm.

3 Turn right opposite a gate (just past a power pole) and cross a field to a stile. Cross and aim for a solitary tree next to a stile in a corner. Admire more fine views to left. Keep the hedge on your left for a 100 yds and go ahead to another stile by a gate and follow the hedgerow on the left to another stile on the left by the power pole. Cross the stile into a road and go to a gate opposite. Go diagonally right for 300 yds across a field to a gate at the corner gate, and after a further 350 yds reach the field corner.

4 Turn left through a small gate on to a forest road and turn left. Continue for 200 yds to a sharp bend and turn right just past a field gate onto a narrow path leding in 100 yds to a stile at the edge of a wood. Cross into a steep field with wonderful views of the Black Mountains ahead. Go down the field, heading towards large trees above a farm house below.

5&6 Go over the first stile on the right and along a fenced path for 150 yds and enter woods onto a wide forest road. Follow this for 500 yds (often muddy) and take a left fork 6 onto a narrower path. Follow this for a further 500 yds to a path junction.

7 Keep ahead on a level path here and after a further 200 yds come to a forest road junction by a stream.

8 Cross the road and take the waymarked narrow path opposite (sometimes overgrown in summer). Keep the stream on your left and go to a stile. Cross, bear right onto a twisting path for 200 yds through a copse to reach a stile at Loysey Farm. Turn left immediately right round a pond towards the farmhouse and then left through a gate into a field. Bear right and with fence on your right, go to a stile leading into the woods. Go through the woods for 150 yds to a forest road. Cross over to a stile beside a gate and bear left across a field to a stile by a large oak tree. Cross, aim for Trellech Church spire, left of apower pole, to another stile. Cross and go ahead to a footbridge in the field corner.

9 Cross, bear right and aim for a gate in the gap between brick houses leading into a cul-de-sac and onto the B4293. Turn right. At the bend, go through a gate by the church, (signed Tump Turret). Follow the path behind the church through the gates, round The Tump through a farm and left to the start point.

10:32am Thursday 6th March 2008

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