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Llyn Coastal Path, Stage 1b

Groeslon to Clynnog (11.5km Inland Route).

Stage 2 of the walk, from Groeslon to Clynnog Fawr, is another mixed bag. You start off on cycle track, cross pleasant farm land, more road, some unpleasant and obstructive farmland and finally more unclassified roads (oh, and a pub). Throughout the day you will get glimpses of the Irish Sea to your right and the hills of Eryri and Llyn dominating your other aspects. By the latter part of the walk, you begin to realise that you are on a coastal walk as the sea becomes even more dominant. However, when you do arrive in Clynnog, you realise that these first sections were merely a walk-in, a tantaliser, and the best is definately to come.

This stage of the walk starts off from the Tafarn Pennionyn pub in Groeslon, where stage 1 ended if you need reminding. You continue along the Lon Eifion Cycletrack, which is easy to follow. It can be hard going, as it is a tarmac track, but it is technically easy. The trees that line the track give a welcome shade, and also block the GPS satellite signal, which you will only need to log the track, not for navigation.

After 3 km, you can now see Penygroes, the next village along. If you need supplies, make a detour into the village as it has a well stocked Spar shop. If not, you will spot a kissing gate to your right, that leads through the fields. Pass through this, and you can see the next gates ahead, pass through these until you come to a field full of head high gorse. The path is reasonably obvious, try and keep going in the same direction as you started, and you will come to a stone stile in a wall. Cross this and the next field has a gap in the wall, pass through this and the next field and the route becomes clearer. In this final field, you can see a track on the opposite side, but the track follows the field boundary to your right. Turn left when you reach the track and a gate will lead you safely out. The next bit of track is easy and takes you to the crossroads at SH456 535, passing an electricity substation on the way.

Celebration is now called for, as the crossoads houses the first waymark for the route that you come across (at a point where the route is fairly obvious). Cross the road, and notice how the sea is becoming more prominent to your right and the Llyn hills are getting nearer. The next section is along a track in the main, but the middle section becomes indistinct. When you reach the farm at Eithinog-Uchaf (SH454530) a path leads clearly left. Do not follow this, you need to veer right, keeping in a relatively straight line from the previous track. To compound the problems, the next gate you must pass through is locked, climb over it. This is a right of way afterall, and the farmer i passed a short distance beyond didn't question how i'd got there. The only way being via the gate, so he's possibly locked it to stop 4x4s from damaging his land. He was friendly to walkers anyhow, i chatted with him for a while (he knew people i knew, and so on!).

Soon past this you reach road again, along which you need to travel for 2.5km. You will cross a bridge, then turn right, and when you reach a chapel, turn right. When the footpath leaves the road, it is unexpected and easily missed. There is a waymark, but it is partly obscured by vegetation and the kissinggate itself is overgrown. Like Stage1, I wouldn't wish to cross them in an expensive waterproof. The next section is rather tricky. The GPS files will have further information for this section. The path crosses the first field, a little overgrown and then across another to a gate and a farm. Pass through and you will find the path strewn with rubble and boulders, but passable. Presumably they are working on that area (or putting people off). Turn right here and you will spot a footpath post (green circle with gold arrow) pointing left, follow this.

Ahead of you there is an obvious gate into the field to your left, and a cottage to your right. The path, though difficult to see, aims to enter the field and then goes directly behind the cottage, down a small black gate, along a concreted passage. At first glance you do think you are entering the cottage's back yard. Sections like this really need to be waymarked properly for the walkers' and the property owners' sakes. The path now passes through a narrow tunnel in the trees, it is a little claustrophobic. Shortly, you come to a bright green (i think?) gate to your left, don't pass through it, but pass it and you come to a track at the cottage of Bron-y-Berth (SH433 516).

Turn left here along the track, which turns right into a farmyard you pass through. Just beyond this farmyard, you pass a cottage, again going through their garden, but keep left, and enter the field at the stile / gate, Keep directly forward, and you come to a field with trees and rough ground forming a broken line directly in front of you. Follow this line, avoiding the one place where it drops dangerously, and you should see a kissing gate to your left. It isn't visible until you are virtually above it.

The path now leads over the river on a concrete footbridge and then along the field boundary to your left. At the end of this field is a gate to your left, however, at this point we turn right, crucially it goes uphill. At the top of the hill you arrive at a track that leads you to the road at SH433 508 where you turn right. Quite simply now you follow the road for the next 2km until you arrive in Clynnog. Coincidentally, when you emerge in Clynnog, there is a pub, The Coach Inn, to your left, which was open this afternoon for refreshments.

Click on icons to download the route in Tracklogs and Memorymap format.

Official Route in Tracklogs (.trl) and MemoryMap format (.mmo)

format file for directly importing into your GPS device

Tracklogs IMHO the best mapping for PC.

MemoryMap Still good, but route handling clumsier.

Viewranger mapping for smartphones.

Fugawi and Anquet are also popular.

Quo The new kid on the block.

Multimap - Free online mapping.

Get a Map - Free online mapping from the OS

Access Land in Wales - online mapping from CCW.