Any regular blog readers will know how we love a walk here at the Oakeley Arms, and who can blame us? With all this stunning countryside and scenery, coast and country to explore here in North and Mid Wales. There is nowhere better!

Earlier this week we featured a blog about making a walk part of your Boxing Day tradition. And this walk in Tregaron, mid Wales (about an hour’s drive from us here at the Oakeley, but well worth the drive!).

Where:             Tregaron, Ceredigion

Distance:          4 miles

Difficulty:          Moderate

Start:                The Talbot Hotel, Tregaron Square  SN 679 597

Maps:               OS Explorer 199 Lampeter

Directions 

1: Facing the Talbot Hotel turn right along Abergwesyn/Mountain road

2: After half a mile, turn right past abattoir and the birth place of Twm Sión Cati.

3: Walk just over a mile, turning right past a cottage along a gravelled drive towards Glangors. Before reaching Glangors, turn left by gate along bridleway until another gate.

4: Continue until you come to a small metal gate crossing road carefully.

5: Walk through another gate, head right diagonally across field.

6: Reach cattle grid and follow road to stile on left.

7: Cross stile; again cut diagonally across field, to another stile with letter T made of stones on ground. Continue to another stile.

8: Turn right, head diagonally to stile under large tree. Enjoy wonderful views of Upper Teifi Valley, Cors Caron Nature Reserve, Tregaron and Cadair Idris on a clear day.

9: Turn left, heading down hill over another stile, then diagonally right until you reach final stile by road.

10: Turn left over stile and back to the Square past the Fire Station.

Points of Interest

1: According to local folklore, there is an elephant buried in the grounds of the historic Talbot Hotel in Tregaron. In the mid nineteenth century, a circus was said to have visited the town, and when one of the elephants died from drinking contaminated water, it was buried in a field at the back of the hotel.

2: The man known in Welsh folklore as the “Welsh Robin Hood”, Twm Sion Cati was born in Tregaron in the sixteenth century.

**These directions are for guidance only. The Oakeley Arms can accept no responsibility for any loss, damage or injury resulting from the use of this information. The information quoted is correct at the time of writing. Always take a map with you and be prepared for the weather for turn. Do not venture out in bad weather.