The Meirionnydd Ramblers are a friendly and welcoming group. We offer regular and varied walks in the wonderful countryside in and around southern Snowdonia.
The hills around Blaenau Ffestiniog present a fascinating combination of mountain scenery and industrial archaeology, with quarry remains slowly being softened by nature, and old buildings falling into ruination. Today’s walk starts and finishes in the unspoilt countryside of Cwm Teigl, heading up on the fisherman’s path to the secluded Llyn Manod. Here we take the footpath alongside the lake and then continue on paths and tracks winding through quarry remains and past a scattering of little lakes to reach Llyn Bowydd. We now follow the line of the old quarry railway track round to Manod Quarry passing Cwt y Bugail and Blaen y Cwm quarries on the way. From here we take the lane down Cwm Teigl to pick up a footpath which takes us past the mediaeval farmhouse Cae Canol Mawr on our way back to Cae Clyd.
Group Grade C+
Cae Clyd car park, near football field. (Turn east off A470 at staggered cross roads on the southern outskirts of Blaenau Ffestiniog.)
