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May 2025. Direction: Tylorstown to Mountain Ash.

Another excellent cross valley walk, starting with the long and steep walk up the lane and then the Rocky Road. There are some great views up the Rhondda Fach valley and of "Old Smokey", the Tylorstown tip, now much reduced in height and landscaped (and no longer smoking). The only problem with the navigation was, although there is a right of way up the mountain from the Rocky Road, there is no path as such, so it`s a matter of yomping through the vegetation, which is quite dense in places. It would be easier walking to go a little further up the Rocky Road and turn left up a machine cut path on to the top of the ridge. After the hard work getting on to the ridge, it`s an easy stroll through the forestry and along the lane into Llanwonno, where the Brynffynnon Hotel provides a good half way resting point. The churchyard opposite is where Guto Nyth Bran, the famous Mountain Ash runner is laid to rest. There is then a stretch of about a mile on the mountain road, but it was fairly quiet on the day of my walk. After leaving the road, there is a lovely section across the Clydach Valley and then the rural mountain tops overlooking Mountain Ash, before the steep decent down into the final destination.

Photo 1 - Tylorstown from the mountain lane
Photo 2 - "Old Smokey", the Tylorstown tip
Photo 3 - The path from the mountain road down into the Chydach Valley
Photo 4 - The bridge over the River Clydach
Photo 5 - One of the locals in the fields above Mountain Ash
Photo 6 - View down to Mountain Ash
Photo 7 - The statue of Guto Nyth Bran in Mountain Ash.

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