Abesta two

Verified Slow Way

Verified by 100.00% of reviewers

An enjoyable route with varying views and terrain but with some overgrown and very muddy sections which made walking a challenge at times.

90% of this route is great with enjoyable footpaths and hollow ways, nice views and a mix of terrain and landscape on offer. As Mary has mentioned there is one short section of road with which you need to keep your wits about you and one hollow way that was quite wet and boggy and in places.

At the time of walking it, it was passable but I would love to hear how someone else got on walking it in a couple of months time. The good thing is that a lot of the paths seems to have had their vegetation trimmed back so hopefully this continues.

We left the tiny city of St Asaph along some quiet roads, although there was a very short section (250 metres) of the B5381 with no pavement from the roundabout to the turnoff which was not so pleasant.
There was a short field crossing which started with a tiny bridge over a ditch plus a broken stile. We found this quite easy, but the road around the field would not be a lot longer. We were soon heading up the first path between hedges, which had good views back, as we climbed. After this, there was a series of farm tracks which approximately, but not exactly, followed the official right of way. When we reached the road, a farmer in a tractor indicated that we’d done the right thing – I know at one point, where there was a friendly shaggy pony, there was also an electric fence crossing the dotted green line of the OS Map.
Now there was quite a long section of single-track lanes, and along there we found a spot to sit on the banked verge to eat some packed lunch. The next section of B5381 was fairly quiet and had good verges.
Soon after this, we turned off through a rickety gate, along a holloway which looked as if a motorcross bike had used it, but also had some brambles threatening to grow across it. It was a bit muddy and unpleasant along here, but it looked as if the vegetation is sometimes trimmed back. This part “Sheep Wash” certainly lost a star for the route. There were also a couple of fallen trees across the path.
The next footpath, along the side of some woods near Abergele Hospital, was more pleasant, and we eventually emerged, over a river footbridge, into the outskirts of Abergele, and followed a riverside path all the way to the main road and the end of the route.
With the exception of the Sheep Wash track and a tiny bit of B5381 near St Asaph, I found this a very pleasant route. I’d give it 3.5* if I could.

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