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From the bus shelter at the front of the railway station turn right and go down past the Conwy Visitor Centre. Immediately beyond it fork right on a cobbled path that goes through an arch in the town walls [A]. Fork right again to go down steps, turn right at the bottom to go through a subway into Morfa Bach car park. Go straight ahead to the road and turn left. After about 50 metres spot a kissing gate on the right. Go through this and steeply up a grass bank to a stile that leads you into woods. Follow the path up to the right through the woods until you reach a stile followed by a kissing gate at the top. Keep straight on for about 50 metres with a hedge to your right until you find a stile on the right.
[A] The town walls were built between 1283 and 1287 after the foundation of Conwy by Edward I, and were designed to form an integrated system of defence alongside Conwy Castle. The castle and walls have survived the centuries relatively unscathed and are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
2
Cross the stile and go ahead on an enclosed path. When gorse bushes appear to the left, go left through a convenient gap in them and turn right to regain your direction and follow the bushes, then a hedge, on your right to a metal kissing gate in front of white buildings. (You will see a trig point up the bank to your left and you may like to divert up to see the view.) Go through the gate and keep straight on along a track past a farmyard and then a communications mast, both on your right, to reach a road. Turn right and follow the road for about 200 metres until you reach a kissing gate at the left end of a brick wall.
3
Go through the gate, walk downhill for just 10 metres then turn left and follow the path uphill and to the right for 30 metres. Emerge from the woods and go ahead up across the field for about 50 metres to a prominent finger post. Go half left up through a gap in the trees then right to follow the trees on your right. Follow the trees round to the left after a while to reach a kissing gate. Go through and diagonally left to a finger post in front of gorse bushes. Go through the gap and follow the hedge on the right past a small derelict stone building on the right. Go through the gap just left of the building into a field. Go left a short distance to the field corner then turn right to follow the field boundary on your left. When you descend to the next corner you will see a metal stile ahead. Cross this, ignore a second metal stile just beyond on the left and continue on down the enclosed path. Go straight across the campsite driveway, through a kissing gate and continue down and left on an enclosed path to reach the main B5106 road.
Take care on the B5106. It is a fast road.
4
Turn right along the road - take care and walk on the right to face oncoming traffic until a grass verge appears on the left. After about 100 metres leave the road and turn left along a track. After another 100 metres fork right and follow the track down towards buildings. Fork left just before the buildings to avoid the barns and reach a spot between houses. Most of the buildings are to your right, but just one cottage is to your left, turn left immediately beyond this to find a kissing gate. Go through and walk clockwise around the field edge to a stile down in the far right corner that leads onto a minor road. Turn left and keep straight on for about 500 metres to a T-junction in the village of Henryd.
The meaning of Henryd in English is "Old ford", with hen meaning "old" and rhyd (mutated to ryd) meaning "ford".
5
Turn left, uphill, for about 100 metres and find a stile on the right by a road traffic sign. Cross it and go straight ahead to cross a metal stile over a wire fence and continue straight on down to cross another stile in a hedge. You will see the next stile just ahead by a gate. Cross this and follow the right field edge until you reach a stile in the far corner leading back onto the B5106 again.
Take care on the B5106. It is a fast road. Use the grass verge as much as you can.
6
Cross the road and turn left. There is a grassy verge you can walk along for most of the way. After about 200 metres, immediately after a right turn, go right up a driveway signed as a path. Follow this to the end, where there are some bungalows in poor repair. Turn left and follow a wooden fence on your left to a stile. Cross it and keep head between fences. Cross another stile, go through a concrete subway then through a kissing gate. Go up the bank a few paces then turn right to follow the path downhill. Swing to the left at the bottom to meet a good track, follow this to the right. On reaching a hairpin bend go straight ahead on the left most of two paths. This path soon turns left and climbs steeply for a while. On passing a children's playground down to the left, spot a kissing gate on the right. Go through and go slightly right. Keep in touch with the right field edge until it turns right and descends steeply. Keep ahead, roughly maintaining your height, to reach a ladder stile in the wire fence on the far side of the field. Keep straight on across two more ladder stiles you can see straight ahead. In the next field go straight ahead towards trees by a small bank and pick up a grassy track going half right to a gate that leads onto a road.
7
Turn left along the road. Just after passing Pine Lodge, and before the road starts to climb steeply, cross a ladder stile on the right. Keep roughly straight on over two more ladder stiles, which you should have no problem spotting ahead of you. In the next field keep straight on past a lone tree and a pile of stones and ahead to where the field narrows and there are some gorse bushes. You will find a small ladder stile in the far wall behind the gorse bushes. Cross this and go half right a short distance to cross another ladder stile. Go left to follow the hedge on your left. You will pass the stile you crossed at waypoint [2] on your left. Now retracing your steps all the way back, keep straight on through the kissing gate, over the stile and down through the woods to the bottom stile. Go down the steep grassy bank, left on the road, right through the car park, under the subway and left back up to the start.
