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Follow the Glyndwr Way to the seventeenth-century farmhouse of Ty Faenor, then turn east and walk along the trackway to cross the Ithon valley. Footpaths and side roads lead over the hills to the little village of Llanfihangel Rhydieithon, ‘the Church of St Michael at the ford of the Ithon’.
The ridge to the south is a magnificent walk. Drop down to the pretty valley of the Nant Melan past the intriguingly-named Water-break-its-neck waterfall. South is the country around Colva Hill made famous by the Victorian clergyman Francis Kilvert.
Leave yourself some spare cash for the bookshops of Hay-on-Wye, then walk south across the Black Mountains to Llanthony (not a Cistercian abbey but a lovely monastic ruin). You can follow the Offa’s Dyke Path from the bottom of the Llanthony valley to Grace Dieu.
People and Places- Capel-y-ffin
- Castell Tinboeth
- Cwm-iou (or Cwmyoy)
- Dyfaenor
- Eric Gill
- Francis Kilvert
- Grace Dieu
- Hay-on-Wye
- House platforms
- Llanfair Cilgoed
- Llanfihangel Rhydieithon
- Llanfihangel Ystum Llywern
- Llangattock Lingoed
- Llanthony
- Llantilio Crossenny (or Llandeilo Gresynni)
- New Barn
- Newchurch Hill
- Pillow mounds
- Stanton
- Water-break-its-neck
