Nature Notes and local walks.
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By: Angela and Jeff on 06/02/2021 River Taff and Radyr Woods Aprox 2 miles Start your walk at the Melingriffith Water pump, where you can read about it’s history on the notice board. With your back to the waterwheel go left along Ty Mawr Road until you see the entry to the Taff Trail on your left. Turn down. Stay on the path with the river on your left until you come to steps that will take you onto the bridge crossing the Taff. On the other side you go under the railway bridge and up a short incline to the roundabout where you turn left. Cross the road and opposite the car park you go into Junction Terrace with the old railway workers cottages on the left. Go through the gate at the end where you will see a notice board telling you you are entering Radyr Woods. Go straight ahead, past the play area. You come to some picnic benches. Keep straight ahead until you come to a stream where railway sleepers help you to cross. Bear left and follow a woodland path which passes an old kissing gate and then the edge of some houses where you go down some steps. At the bottom turn left into woods. Keep to the main path straight ahead and eventually you will come to cut tree trunks at the end where you turn left onto a tarmacked road. Go under the railway bridge then left again with the river on your right. As you go along this path you will see a tunnel leading off on the left but ignore this and go straight ahead. The path splits and here you need to take the right hand path under the bridge. Continue to the next bridge, go under this and immediately turn left, up the steps and on to the bridge over the Taff, with the railway line alongside you. Stay on the path, back to the waterwheel.
Point of interest .... along the way you will see a board marked Pilgrimage Pen Rhys. This refers to the pilgrimage walk that led from Llandaff Cathedral to the statue of the Virgin and Child and nearby holy well at Pen Rhys in the Rhondda where people came to be healed. http://www.penrhyspilgrimageway.wales/ By: Sarah on 12/05/2020 By: Sarah on 09/05/2020 By: Jan on 30/04/2020 |
