dewdrop
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After spending one of those mornings where you pore over a map, trying to decide where to wander, I thought I might visit my old favourite Nant-Y-Bar farm (searchable) in the Afan valley. It's a preserved longhouse and I just find it has such a tranquil feel.
For some reason, I changed my mind and traced a little route right in a top corner of the valley that I hadn't been before. It said waterfalls on the map, and that was all I was expecting to see. I headed up right up on to Rhigos range where what used to be quiet pine paths has been replaced with a bit of a building site for wind turbines, although I do like them too. Following on the map back towards Glyncorrwg what was marked as a bridle path but which I ought to have known to mean 'terrible deep fur-roughs of mud, brambles and at times totally indistinct from trees and ditches', I was expecting to pass through a working farm.
IMG_0698 by sebra trewin, on Flickr
I was DELIGHTED to discover a totally derpy derp in the trees - a bog of wonder! Not anyway near as big or nicely preserved as Nant-y-Bar but lovely in it's own completely overgrown way.
IMG_0703 by sebra trewin, on Flickr
Just a couple of beams and window lintels still visible.
IMG_0700 by sebra trewin, on Flickr
IMG_0704 by sebra trewin, on Flickr
And a couple of chimney stacks
Oh and a car in what could have been a garage!
IMG_0710 by sebra trewin, on Flickr
I couldn't actually get to the gate where the bridle way was supposed to continue, but after a bit of a muddy scramble I came to a track.
IMG_0714 by sebra trewin, on Flickr
And I was just thinking, how long has that farm been abandoned? Must have been decades to have so many big trees growing through it. And to my dismay (not my own mystery house after all) and as a kind answer to my question I came to an info board. So there you have it.
IMG_0716 by sebra trewin, on Flickr
For some reason, I changed my mind and traced a little route right in a top corner of the valley that I hadn't been before. It said waterfalls on the map, and that was all I was expecting to see. I headed up right up on to Rhigos range where what used to be quiet pine paths has been replaced with a bit of a building site for wind turbines, although I do like them too. Following on the map back towards Glyncorrwg what was marked as a bridle path but which I ought to have known to mean 'terrible deep fur-roughs of mud, brambles and at times totally indistinct from trees and ditches', I was expecting to pass through a working farm.
IMG_0698 by sebra trewin, on Flickr
I was DELIGHTED to discover a totally derpy derp in the trees - a bog of wonder! Not anyway near as big or nicely preserved as Nant-y-Bar but lovely in it's own completely overgrown way.
IMG_0703 by sebra trewin, on Flickr
Just a couple of beams and window lintels still visible.
IMG_0700 by sebra trewin, on Flickr
IMG_0704 by sebra trewin, on Flickr
And a couple of chimney stacks
Oh and a car in what could have been a garage!
IMG_0710 by sebra trewin, on Flickr
I couldn't actually get to the gate where the bridle way was supposed to continue, but after a bit of a muddy scramble I came to a track.
IMG_0714 by sebra trewin, on Flickr
And I was just thinking, how long has that farm been abandoned? Must have been decades to have so many big trees growing through it. And to my dismay (not my own mystery house after all) and as a kind answer to my question I came to an info board. So there you have it.
IMG_0716 by sebra trewin, on Flickr