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A woodland walk
Apr. 14th, 2024 04:25 pmThe weather seems to have taken a turn for the better and today has been entirely dry. We therefore took the opportunity for a walk in the woods. I drove us to the car park by the toll bridge at Penmaenpool and we walked from there along the Mawddach Trail.
You can see that it was once a railway line but it was closed in the 1960s, courtesy of Dr Beeching. The little yellow dot is a distant cyclist. It's a shared walking and cycling trail.
The path by the gate into the woods was rather muddy, but once the path started to climb, it was reasonably dry. Being on a steep slope and having been created as a scenic walk, it drains much better than a path across a flat pasture.
I'm finally beginning to remember some of the routes around the woods. G has walked them a lot since the start of the pandemic. He used to walk all the way to Barmouth and then get the bus back, but the desire to avoid people made him explore the woods instead and, to be honest, they're more interesting to walk around than plodding all the way along the old railway track to the coast.
( More photos and description of the walk here... )
This photo shows clearly that the paths were built deliberately and aren't just the result of people walking through the woods. We suspect that some former inhabitant of Abergwynant Hall had the paths created so family and guests could appreciate the picturesque beauty of their land.
From here we descended to the wider track running beside the river and then rejoined the old railway line to walk back to the car.
You can see that it was once a railway line but it was closed in the 1960s, courtesy of Dr Beeching. The little yellow dot is a distant cyclist. It's a shared walking and cycling trail.
The path by the gate into the woods was rather muddy, but once the path started to climb, it was reasonably dry. Being on a steep slope and having been created as a scenic walk, it drains much better than a path across a flat pasture.
I'm finally beginning to remember some of the routes around the woods. G has walked them a lot since the start of the pandemic. He used to walk all the way to Barmouth and then get the bus back, but the desire to avoid people made him explore the woods instead and, to be honest, they're more interesting to walk around than plodding all the way along the old railway track to the coast.
( More photos and description of the walk here... )
This photo shows clearly that the paths were built deliberately and aren't just the result of people walking through the woods. We suspect that some former inhabitant of Abergwynant Hall had the paths created so family and guests could appreciate the picturesque beauty of their land.
From here we descended to the wider track running beside the river and then rejoined the old railway line to walk back to the car.
