Page Two

A Self-Guided Walk from the Brecon Beacons Park Society

Cwmyoy Circular (continued)

Turn left on a track past Three Wells farm, until you reach a gate marked Box Tree Cottage. Go through the gate and, after 80 metres, where the dry-stone wall on your left turns left and the track which you have been following veers to the right, LEAVE THE TRACK and  follow a faint grassy path straight ahead over the brow of the hillside. The path soon becomes more obvious as it begins to descend. Go through a gate onto Access land [3110-2323].
* After 250 metres, just before a stile, turn right on a sheep-track following the mountain wall for 1 kilometre. When the wall turns sharp left at the head of the valley, follow it down to meet a distinctive path coming in from the ridge on your right. Continue through a gate and down to a stream, cross the stream and go through a gate onto a path which, after approximately 800 metres, takes you through Ty-hwnt-y-bwlch [3030-2399].

* There is an alternative route from the stile in the previous paragraph, which is recommended if the sheep track is overgrown with late summer bracken.
After 250 metres, cross a stile and bear right on a footpath (shown on the OS map) keeping above the ruins of Ty Canol and to the right of a stone barn and across fields to Blaenyoy Farm. Go through the farmyard and up a grassy track, cross a stile and turn left to cross a stream. Go through a gate onto a path which, after approximately 800 metres, takes you through Ty-hwnt-y-bwlch [3030-2399].

Keeping the mound of Cwmyoy Graig on your right follow the path around it, turning right at a point where a smaller path heads straight on down, then left where your path turns away from the Graig between drystone walls, to emerge at a T-junction and information board. Go left through a gate and down to Cwmyoy Church [2990-2338].

This fascinating old church is built on a landslip and is said to lean more than the leaning tower of Pisa. Do take a few minutes to go inside the church and have a look around.

Turn left out of the church, go through the gate and turn right onto the road ahead and on a bend after 25 metres turn left onto a footpath. Follow the wall on your left to the corner, then go straight ahead until the stile which you are heading for comes into view. Carry on following way-marks across the fields to Perthi-crwn [3082-2314].
Walk up the drive between some restored buildings, and carry straight on for 70 metres until you reach the edge of the field. Ignoring a more obvious path to your left, head slightly right and down across the corner of the field to a gate, go through and follow the hedge on your left through a second gate into a green lane. Turn right at the end, parallel to the hedge, and go down to a gate. Turn right into a lane and after 150 metres go left over a stile [3089-2269].
Follow the way-marks straight across the fields, a footbridge and a ford (with stepping stones) to a gate and stile onto the lane by the Honddu bridge, cross the bridge and head back up the lane to the Queen's Head.  

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