We had worked with Steph in the morning on her shed (still in the making
phase) and the garden, and when she went off to work after lunch we left for a
short stroll around Llanyre. I picked it out from a local book of walks
chopping off a start and return to Llandrindod by parking in Llanyre village
itself.
We parked in a small carpark beside the playing fields behind the war memorial.
We walked out to the Llandrindod Wells road and along it to the church, where we
could gratefully pick up a footpath, sometime behind hedges and sometimes beside
the road.
At a crossroads we turned left up a lane leading up towards the remains of an
old site of the roman era fort - Castell Collen. It was hidden behind a sheep
field and under trees.
We went up to the buildings beside the site, but there was no obvious way to get
further, so about turn and back to a sharp turn in the driveway, where we
could nip through a gate and across a sheep field.
The field ended in a small stile and a stream crossing - slightly deep after the
recent rains. A little climb up the opposite side and into another sheep
field.
Several fields later we came out on a lane, which provided a bit of a zigzag
onto more fields.
Leaving the lane behind up a track at the side of the next field, before angling
across it into a rough boggy one.
The path ended in the church yard for a small church in the middle of nowhere,
after several stiles where Bertie had to be hauled over. Then we walked down the
back lane back towards Llanyre.
At house labelled as Bryn bedwen we turned down a farm drive towards the hills.
At a path crossing we turned onto the track towards the village.
We crossed a sheep field an then had to manhandle Bertie over a couple more
stiles through fields with inquisitive cows in, before we could escape to the
safety of another stream crossing.
The last lap was down a lane into the village and along the central road of the
village to get back to the car park and the van.
The van parked in the small car park.
