Does anyone know Radnor Forest and the Whimble? I love it but have never explored and would love to hang out up there. Does anyone already do this? I'd love some advice/ideas ...
Radnor Forest ... hanging out
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I've looked at that area previously, but never actually been into it. Surprisingly inaccessible. I would be interested in seeing it though.
Well, let's go there then - I know the way
. Water-break-its-neck is supposed to be very beautiful. And I know a great place for a cuppa 3 miles up the road if you want.yes i have been there a few times and know it, walked it from different start points, from New Radnor there is a dead end road that rises very steeply and ends at the wood at 'Whimble' and there is a car park at the end of the road in the wood, further down the main road A44 there is a track that ends in a car park by a waterfall called ''Water-Break-its-Neck'' and you can walk from there (some nice big trees by the waterfall) going either left of the big wood ''warren plantation'' and up over the summit ''Nyth-Grug'' or along the track beneath Nyth Grug, or go right of warren plantation and walk up through ''Davey Morgans Dingle'' which is nice (the streambed in Davey Morgans Dingle can sometimes dry up in dry weather), you can approach from the north through the forestry from the A488 at ''Bledffa'' walking up through ''Rock Dingle'' or ''Fishpools'', if you have no transport you can catch a train to ''Dolau'' and easily walk from there approaching from the North West through LLanfihangel Rhydithon. There is a large steep-sided valley area called ''Harley Dingle'' which is a firing range and often closed to the public and it sits beneath the areas highest summit which is ''Great Rhos''. At the summit of ''Black Mixen'' there is a radio-transmitter aeriels and workers buildings but there is a nice viewpoint there on a spur looking all down the steep Harley Dingle valley. There are some short rough cliffs called ''Whinyard Rocks'' which attract various birds and on the top moorland around Black Mixen/Great Rhos Hen Harriers have been seen. The area at the head of Harley Dingle where the stream meets the wood at a place called ''The Riggles'' can be quite boggy in and around the wood there, there is a place there called ''Shepherds Well'' but it is no more than a tiny spring which sometimes completely dries up. If you walk from the car park in the Wood above New Radnor walk North alongside the wood on your right going past Whimble Hill then Whinyard Rocks heading north to Black Mixen summit you get a lovely view of the Bach Brook gushing down the steep valley, then contour around the summit of Black Mixen taking in the lovely view of Harley Dingle from the spur earlier mentioned, then onto Great Rhos summit and descend down Davy Morgans Dingle ending up at the lovely waterfall Water-Break-its-Neck. The forestry around there is mostly conifer plantations but there are some nice trees by the waterfall. Do you want to know anything particular about the area.
PS to Harvestman, the area is VERY accessible, by foot by car and by train.
PS to Harvestman, the area is VERY accessible, by foot by car and by train.
That's brilliant information. thank you. I love being wrong like this.
Funnily enough I was up that way today, but just passing through and not able to stop. It looked wonderful.
Hi, just a little more info for you so you are clear. The car park in the wood at Whimble is the highest access point -- turn off the A44 road onto the B4372 road into New Radnor – from New Radnor take a dead end road which is called ‘Mutton Dingle’ heading in a north west direction for about 1 kilometre, this road is very steep, junction of ‘Mutton Dingle’ road is actually a staggered crossroads consisting of the B4372 and ‘Mutton Dingle’ to left going uphill to car park and ‘Water Street’ going right into New Radnor village – at the end of Mutton Dingle road there is a fork, left fork ends in just a few yards and is just a gate for farmers access, take the right fork into the forestry and there is a proper car parking area there in about 100 yards or so – leaving car walk back out to the same farmers gate earlier mentioned and that is a footpath going north alongside the woodland with Whimble Hill on your left where wood ends. – the grid reference for the actual car park should you want it is 206618 ---- regarding the car park by waterfall called Water-Break It’s-Neck, from New Radnor take the A44 heading south west for approx 2 kilometres, you will then see a track on your right which is just past a farm also on right called ‘Vron Farm’, turn onto this track and there is a car park almost immediately on your left on a bend in the track, ignore this first car park and continue along track for approx 1 kilometere where you will see a second car park, park there and just down the road 100 yards or so is a ford over a stream, the waterfall is a short way to the left upstream. Incidenatally there is a back track leading up to the top of the falls from the car park as well. Grid reference for this car park is 186598.
