Description
This is a Slow Ways route connecting Dolgellau and Bala.
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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Dolgellau and Bala.
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Route status - Live
Reviews - 1
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Is this route good enough? - No (1)
Problems reported - Access (1)
Downloads - 6
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Geography information system (GIS) data
Total length
Maximum elevation
Minimum elevation
Start and end points
Dolgellau
Grid Ref
SH7280517760
Lat / Lon
52.74247° / -3.88560°
Easting / Northing
272,805E / 317,760N
What3Words
duck.putts.homing
Bala
Grid Ref
SH9252835903
Lat / Lon
52.90979° / -3.59955°
Easting / Northing
292,528E / 335,903N
What3Words
cloth.troubled.lamppost
Dolbal One's land is
| Dolgellau | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | SH7280517760 |
| Lat / Lon | 52.74247° / -3.88560° |
| Easting / Northing | 272,805E / 317,760N |
| What3Words | duck.putts.homing |
| Bala | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | SH9252835903 |
| Lat / Lon | 52.90979° / -3.59955° |
| Easting / Northing | 292,528E / 335,903N |
| What3Words | cloth.troubled.lamppost |
| Moors | 8.4% |
| Natural grass | 3.5% |
| Pasture | 67.2% |
| Urban | 3.2% |
| Woods | 17.8% |
Data: Corine Land Cover (CLC) 2018
review
Hiking Historian
01 Jul 2023What already promised to be a long and arduous route was made even more difficult by a section that, on the ground, does not correspond to what's on the ground at all.
Most of the route follows the Cross Britain Way/Mary Jones Walk, but the one section that doesn't, between the farms of Llechwedd-Fwyalchen and Cefn-Gwyn, near Rhosdylluan, is hampered right from the off.
First, you climb the hill from the main track and, via a few gates, approach Llechwedd-Fwyalchen. The route (and footpath on OS and ROW maps) is supposed to follow hedges and a brook NNE to the river, but there is no route. And even if there was, the drop to the Afon Dwrnudon is steep and overgrown, with no way over the often fast stream.
Best to scrap this section altogether.
I've posted an alternative that uses the CBW/MJW in almost its entirety, the best option for this route.
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