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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Bargoed and Blackwood.
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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Bargoed and Blackwood.
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Geography information system (GIS) data
Total length
Maximum elevation
Minimum elevation
Start and end points
Bargoed
Grid Ref
ST1512499976
Lat / Lon
51.69210° / -3.22934°
Easting / Northing
315,124E / 199,976N
What3Words
upon.amber.noted
Blackwood
Grid Ref
ST1738696944
Lat / Lon
51.66518° / -3.19590°
Easting / Northing
317,386E / 196,944N
What3Words
hunk.binder.miss
Barbla Two's land is
| Bargoed | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | ST1512499976 |
| Lat / Lon | 51.69210° / -3.22934° |
| Easting / Northing | 315,124E / 199,976N |
| What3Words | upon.amber.noted |
| Blackwood | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | ST1738696944 |
| Lat / Lon | 51.66518° / -3.19590° |
| Easting / Northing | 317,386E / 196,944N |
| What3Words | hunk.binder.miss |
| Green urban | 39.4% |
| Pasture | 7.0% |
| Urban | 53.6% |
Data: Corine Land Cover (CLC) 2018
review
Paul Chilcott
23 Jun 2022June 2022. Direction: Bargoed to Blackwood
An excellent walk through a superb country park. Bargoed Woodland Park really is a gem and most of this walk is within this park. I understand a lot of the park is on reclaimed industrial land, mainly colliery and spoil tip sites, but a few decades on and you can hardly tell. Although it`s a woodland park, there are lots of glades and meadows and the path alongside the River Rhymney is lovely.
Although Bargoed Woodland Park is ideal for wheels, the next section goes through fields, with some access difficulties before coming out on the roads again on the outskirts of Blackwood. There was no style or gate at the start of the footpath off Waun Borfa Road (just after the crossroads with the A4049 main road) and it was overgrown, but this was the only obstacle. After the walk across the fields, it was a steady walk down through the suburbs and into the centre if Blackwood.
Photo 1 - View across the Rhymney Valley from Bargoed
Photo 2 - The northern end of Bargoed Woodland Park
Photo 3 - The River Rhymney
Photo 4 - Road bridge over the River Rhymney
Photo 5 - Meadow and wetlands, Bargoed Woodland Park
Photo 6 - The northern end of the park
Photo 7 - View across the Rhymney Valley from Bargoed
Photo 8 - Hanbury Square, Bargoed.
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