Start:
Shepherds, Parkmill
Finish:
Shepherds, Parkmill
Distance:
6 miles (10km)
Walk Length:
3 - 3.5 hours
Walk Difficulty:
2 (Moderate)
Parking:
£5 per car per day at Shepherds. Limited Spaces.
C0nsiderations:
Always exercise caution when crossing roads and navigating steep paths.
Tooth Cave.
Walk along the lane, past cottages on your right, towards the Mill buildings.
Cross the stream (Pennard Pill) on the footbridge and turn right up the tarmac lane marked Parc-le-Breos (private road).
Follow this lane with wood on your left (look out for primrose, bluebell, wood anemone, wild garlic, and dog’s mercury).
Turn right after the Welsh Water pumping station and go through the gate into Green Cwm (Llethrid Cwm).
Continue on the wide track through the grassy valley until you reach Parc-le-Breos Tomb (Giant’s Grave) on your left.
Opposite the tomb is a restored limekiln.
About 100 meters further on, take the steep right path leading up to Cathole Cave.
Continue past Green Cwm Cottage on your right, go straight at the crossroads.
After 100 meters, at the right-hand bend, take the less distinct left-hand path through the wood and up a wooded valley.
40 meters past a limekiln on your right, cross the stile and go ahead over the field to a second stile.
Cross the second stile, go through a small field, and cross a third stile (noting the ruin of Lodge Farm on your right).
Go ahead and in 20 meters turn down a wide high-banked track.
Cross the stream and take the stile on your left into the field.
The path follows the fence by Decoy Wood and the original deep lane on the left.
Cross the stile into the next field and leave this field by a wooden stile to the right of the house. This is in the hamlet of Cilibion.
Turn left and head for the road which climbs up over Cefn Bryn.
Follow this road for 700 meters until you reach Broad Pool on your right.
Return to Cilibion and continue on the main road (B4271) towards Swansea for about 2 km, to the scattered buildings of Llethryd.
After the road dips to cross the stream by a bridge, take the track to the right past the restored Lodge.
Cross over the stile, and continue on the gravel track ahead.
Continue on the track and you will rejoin your original path just before the crossroads and Green Cwm Cottage.
Retrace your steps to Parkmill.
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