Lampeter to Llanbydder

If you plan to spend time in Lampeter before the short walk to Llanbydder, there is a museum (closed Fridays) but it doesn’t open until 11.00.  Leave Lampeter on the main road down towards the bridge over the Teifi and enter Camarthenshire, turning up a track to the right of the public house towards Pen lan on a green lane. 

There is a marked diversion to the original footpath here which goes around the property and rejoins the path then drops down through fields to the road.  Follow the road to the right up through the village of Parc y Rhos and, after the crossroad, continue to a hamlet by the river. Cross the bridge and turn right up a steep lane by Ty’n Coed.  Part way up this green lane, bear right diagonally across the field to a stile by the woods.  

 Continue over the stile in the same direction, passing through gates over the hill and dropping down to the access road to the farm, Rhyd Owen, where a lane passes between the buildings and down to a stream.  This track disappears but continue up the hill, taking a right turn across the field towards a gap in the hedge.  Continue to the top edge of a small copse and follow sheep tracks (for once they can be trusted to lead in the right direction) across the fields to the road.

  On the opposite side of the road is a path which leads to a stile and follows the contour of the hill above Blaencarreg.  Cut across the field heading south west to the edge of a wood and follow the hedge to the west until a wood is reached and a green lane drops down on the left.  The track drops to the south west from this and, shortly after, where the track bears left, another green lane continues to follow the contour to the right.  Follow this to a stile on the right and head across the field to the left to a gate.

There are a series of gates leading down towards the road and a large factory.  Turn left along another green lane and enter a field, skirting the edge as the path drops down to a stream and a footbridge.  This route was free of hazards and emerged in the small town of Llanbydder opposite the dairy factory.

7 miles