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A Self-Guided Walk from the Brecon Beacons Park Society

Begin from the main public car park in Crickhowell (off the A40 behind the fire station) [Grid Reference: SO 2189-1836] 
Before leaving the car park, look above Crickhowell to the flat topped hill, which is 'Table Mountain', your destination. 
Exit through the car park entrance, then proceed left to the top of 'Greenhill Way' and right up 'Standard Street'. Take the next left up 'Great Oak Road'  with Table Mountain ahead. 
Views begin to open up now over the rooftops and Church spire of Crickhowell and to the Usk valley beyond. 
Continue upwards after the junction with 'Llanbedr Road' for another 250 metres.
Ignore the track doubling back above Crickhowell and turn left through a gate and up a farm track to 'The Wem' farm. [2232-1962] Climb the stile into the farmyard and, in front of farmhouse, turn right through a gate and along the top side of a field to another gate.
Go through this gate and turn left up a sunken green lane to another stile. Continue up the right-hand side of three fields of pasture, crossing a farm track after the second field, with stiles at all the boundaries. After the stile in the top field, bear right up a track through some trees, with an old farmhouse on your right, to arrive at a stile [2248-2033] on to the open moor-land.
Continue gently upwards on path which circles to the right, to the east, of Table Mountain (this is easier than the direct route which is very steep towards the top). About 400 metres after the last stile, take a left hand fork, which continues to circle round to the col on the far, north, side of Table Mountain. Shortly before the col, bear left through an opening in the rocks to the summit plateau [2252-2073]. 
Rocky ramparts around the summit plateau of Table Mountain are remnants of an Iron Age hill-fort, which today provides a fine picnic spot, with sweeping views of the Black Mountains and, on a clear day, the Brecon Beacons.  

Table Mountain

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