This walk takes you from Capel Bangor Train Station, easily reachable by bike, car or even walking from Aberystwyth, around the basin of Rheidol Valley. We will visit the Nancy Kirk viewpoint and reflect on animals, plants, rivers, science and senses.

Walk 1: Seeing, hearing and knowing the Rheidol Valley 

Main route: following Rheidol river across footbridge, to to Nancy Kirk viewpoint and back

Link to openly available OS map for the area, edited by us to indicate the route: https://explore.osmaps.com/route/15817244/walk-1-seeing-hearing-and-knowing-the-rheidol-valley  

Length: c.6.5 km one way / 13 km roundtrip + ascend to Nancy Kirk Viewpoint in Pant Da Wood 

Option 1. Circular. Complete a circular by following the road from entrance to Nancy Kirk viewpoint to Capel Bangor and across the bridge back to Capel Bangor train station. 

Link to our: Circular Route to Nancy Kirk Viewpoint from Capel Bangor openly available via the OS maps website

Length: 8.89km

Option 2. For Cyclists. Cycle to Pant Da Woods on the Rheidol cycle path, (follow the path to the Nancy Kirk Viewpoint by foot) then continue on the road, past Butterfly House and up to the power station and Rheidol Falls by fish ladder. 

Link to Cycle Route To Pant Da Woods and on to Rheidol Falls openly available via the OS maps website

Length of Cycle :

Description of walk and guide to audio reflections 

1. You start from Capel Bangor ‘train station’ and follow the road east by the river, passing Rheidol Riding Centre and continuing on to a house where track becomes a bridle way and proceeds upwards. You follow the path, veering to left when faced with a T-junction. You cross a little stream and a gate and when on open field proceed to big Oak Tree  

Listen to audio reflection point 1. Listening and Sensing 

2. You continue down the path across the field, turning left onto a track. You cross two gates (and the train line) and continue through a forested track until you meet a road. When you get to the road, turn left and continue for a mile or so. Continue down the valley past a farm on right and later a house on the left.

Listen to audio reflection point 2. Kites  

3. Eventually there is a walking path sign turning sharply to your left, take it and you will follow Rheidol River to a rocky beach and walk-way bridge.  

 

You will be walking towards the camera, looking for the sharp left (here in the dark).

Listen to audio reflection point 3. Fish and Mining  

4. After a break here, go across the bridge and turn left following the road. You walk up and down the hill and at the bottom, on your right, you will see a gate and a sign to the Nancy Kirk viewpoint: proceed up to Nancy Kirk viewpoint  

Copyright: Felix Cannadam

Listen to reflection points 4 and 5. View without a view & Trespass and Border Politics 

5. On return back down you can either turn right and follow the road to Capel Bangor Church (Option 1), by which you should turn left to follow main road and then sharp left again at next turning off the main road. This will connect you to the bridge and the Capel Bangor Train station. Alternatively, (Main walk) retrace your steps back to Capel Bangor the way you came. If doing so, at Oak tree stop and consider   

6. If taking Option 2. please stop at the fish ladder at Power Station to  

Listen to audio reflection point 6. Dams