Llangeithio to Lampeter

From Llangeithio climb up the B4342 towards Stag’s Head then turn left along a lane leading to Birch Hill.  A path on the right follows a well marked route to Gwyrdy Farm where the road is rejoined.  Turn left to Stag’s Head then right onto the B4578, the original course of Sarn Helen, and stay on the road for over a mile until it joins the A485.  Turn right towards Llanio and take a track just before a house on the left.  This curves round over a disused railway and onto the remains of a millrace.  Beyond some trees is a bridge crossing the River Teifi.

Evidence of Roman remains have been found near the river including a bathhouse.  On the other side of the river, follow the path along the bank heading south to a wooded hillside where the path rises up through the trees to reach fileds above the buildings and barns of Godre’r Garth.  Here the path has been diverted to the east and a stile on the left lead into a path that runs south-west to rejoin the original path.  Follow the route across the fields to the green lane heading up to Garth and cut right through the farmyard after the farmhouse to reach the farm lane.  This emerges on a lane by some buildings.  

Turn right and follow the lane past more buildings and over a bridge to a junction.  Turn left and follow the lane for over a mile rising up high above the river.  A track is reached on the left by the farm, Wern Fawr.  Follow this across fields with signed stiles to cut through what is described in the Sarn Helen guide as a ‘scrapyard’.  It’s no different 30 years on.  

Cross the lane and pick up a path into a field with a bungalow on the right and, almost opposite the building, is a stile with a steep drop down into the lower field.  Turn towards the right and drop down to reach a gate leading to Parc Newydd where the lane is rejoined.  Head south west to Pont Llanfair near Llanfair Clydogau.  

Shortly after the shop and chapel is a footpath on the right which climbs steeply up through fields and woodland to reach some buildings (Higher Cefnfoelallt). 

Follow a track to join the lane on the ridge then turn left along the lane to a quirky cottage, Penlan Goetre.  Most of the woodland was cut down giving views to the north.  

Follow the signed paths to the start of Long Wood and up to the area of Castell Goestre.  Here the path bears right to a fence with a track straight ahead and one further down the fence.  Take the latter and cross fields before rising up to reach the woodland by Castell Allt Goch. 

Keep the fence to the right and follow it round anticlockwise to a gate which leads south west alongside a hedge and into a beech wood.  The way down to Lampeter is clear from here.  Over 13 miles.