Glyn Ceiriog - Hilltop and Woodland - A longer walk taking in the hill SE of Glyn Ceiriog, the lovely descent to Llwynmawr, woodland at Coed Collfryn, and a terrace walk home.
8 km (5 miles); height gain 330m (1082 ft). About 3 hours.

Take Stryt Uchaf (High St.) for 5 mins and at the far end of the Vicarage wall, at PO letterbox, turn R, downhill on lane for 2 mins to crossroad. Straight across into Old Rd, with white cottages on the R. Continue for 10 mins, then take driveway on R down to white cottage and follow waymarks across fields to pass between
buildings to the river bridge. Cross the river and the road, R on grass verge then immediately L up lane to house and stables at Talygarth Ucha. Go L behind the house and fork R up to a field gate. Continue diagonally uphill following close to the line of mixed trees on your R, to reach the gable of a roughcast cottage, up steps to the road (B 4579). Cross to climb stone steps to L of cottage and its oil tank, to a stile. Follow fence on R for 1 min. to cross a second stile. Continue uphill following fence (now on your L) to enter an avenue of trees at a third stile. Continue up this avenue, forking R as the gradient eases and continue to the brow of the spur. The routes divide here (a waymarker post.) Go L, following a wall and gorse on your L for 160 mt.,to reach a cross- wall. Our 'guiding wall' ends abruptly in a stony mound here! Your direction across the hillside is generally magnetic south, keeping fairly level and following a gentle arc indicated by marker posts. You pass L of a horizontal holly tree and follow a path through a gap in the gorse to fence corner. Follow to R. of the fence downhill for 50m to cross a stile. Now keep level following a fence on your L until reaching a cross-fence and waymark post. Turn R and keep downhill to a stile by a 'double hurdle' gate. Keep on directly downhill with a fence on your L to a stile and gate in the field corner. Go straight ahead for 20 m and swing L around the end of the Dutch barn onto a clear track. Reach farm buildings (Cefn coed) and fork R into an open field. Follow the double-treeline downhill to a gate. Continue, to turn briefly L at a tarmac lane,but after 10mt. turn R through double gates (often open) and a yard, continuing down and L of an open shed and down a sunken track. Take care crossing a tarmac road (the B4579 again) and keep ahead down the track which soon becomes a delightful streamside route. Turn R at a tarmac lane and in 3 mins reach a fingerpost leading us L on a lane towards Dolywern. (You could divert
straight ahead for 350m for refreshment at The Golden Pheasant). 500 m towards Dolywern (from fingerpost or hotel!) then take the path sharp L alongside the last house on the L before the main B4500 road. Follow along the garden boundary and into the wood. Continue until reaching a waymark post and go R, gradually downhill to leave the wood at a stile. Ahead over a field, crossing a small stream, to a further stile. Contour below the hedgeline for about 7 minutes. If waymarked, use an alternative permissive path for approximately the last 100m. before buildings, to avoid a garden area, and reach a lane. Go L, uphill, on a gated lane to reach a road then downhill, cross the river bridge and rise to 'The Cross'.