View from the Aqueduct. Llangollen canal in foreground, then green fields and distant hills.

Chirk Castle sits on a wooded hill in the distance. Green valley and a foreground slope broken with shrubs and clumpy grass.

Wooden signpost with brightly-painted acorn path-markers stands looking over a sun-mottled landscape of green hills and clumps of tall trees.

Day 4 on #offasdykepath, Trefonen to Llangollen. 18 miles, 2,600 feet elevation. Perfect weather day, sunny and cool. Lots of long vistas from hilltops and sudden descents into steep valleys. A long day brought me to the famous Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, carrying the Llangollen Canal across a gorge.

Goats on a green grassy conical mound with the top cut off flat, and now you know everything I do about it.

Lunch break. My shoe, a green grassy field, and manicured trees. Blue skies with fluffy white clouds above.

It took some coaxing to get these two resting adult sheep to let me through this metal stile into their pasture beyond.

A happy sight. Welshpool down below in the distance. A green grassy hillside in foreground, and rows of hills stretching behind the town to infinity.

Day Two on #offasdykepath. Brompton to Buttington today: 15 miles, 2,300 feet elevation. The first half is busy working farms, lots of tractors (lots of mud as a result) broken by nice green hillsides. A steepish climb at the end up to Beacon Ring Iron Age hillfort. A complaint in first comment:

AllTrails summary shows a map view and data on my hike. 14.7 miles, 4,032 vertical feet, and they mean vertical.

Halfway point of the whole Path, near Newcastle. Photo shows me with my chin strap holding that cap; very high winds all day.

A look back, showing a section of the Dyke itself. The ditch and berms meander up a green hillside.

Some of the lambs are only a day old. Photo shows a mother sheep suckling a lamb and looking at me suspiciously. Also they’re blocking the Path.

Day One of returning to #offasdykepath to do the northern half, Knighton to Prestatyn. Knighton to Brompton is widely said to be the toughest day on the whole Path, and no argument from me. 15 miles and over 4,000 vertical feet, more than half crammed into the last 5 miles. Very high winds today.

I’ve done the bit that joins the eastern end to the western end near Scotland (sort of) @hwpath.bsky.social and the bit that joins the Severn estuary end to the north Wales end #OffasDykePath and little bit of the Cornish Coast. The rest? Getting too old for that now, I think.

A little #Benchlove from #HergestRidge #Kington #Herefordshire

#OffasDyke #OffasDykePath #Stunday

Me sitting on a rare bench along the path. Green foliage behind.

Several sections of the Dyke itself right along the path. In this shot a cluster of trees and a ditch with a low wall to the left and higher to the right.

Dyke section, hills in distance.

Not a good omen. Dead sheep lies white against the green grass. Trees and rolling hills, and an overcast sky.

Kington to Knighton on #offasdykepath. 14 miles, 2,800 feet elevation. Noticeably cooler day, which was great for the three climbs to ridgetops. Some steep climbs, but also a lot of gradual pastures up hillsides. Several visible Dyke sections. Steep descent into Knighton.

Black Mountains; the day ahead. Cloudy blue sky, road and fence (with stile marked as a footpath), and a long, flat, high ridgeline with steep sides.

Sign hung on stile reads “Cattle attack dogs do not put your dogs on a lead with cattle”. Green pasture beyond.

Two sheep watch me pass. They’re standing on a green, grassy ledge with trees and low scrub up the steep hillside.

Rainbow in a cloudy-blue sky. Green pasture, with sharp promontory in the distance.

Longtown to Hay-on-Wye on #offasdykepath, 16 miles and a whopping 3,770 ft elevation. That’s because it’s a steep climb to the ridgeline in the Black Mountains, then all day gradually rising to the 2,300 ft high point and then down to Hay. Windy, cold, exposed all day, with flashes of long views.

Cows hanging out, trees in the background, overcast sky.

That’s my climb tomorrow. Flat pasture, prominent hill, cloudy sky.

Nearing the end of the day! Signpost showing Monmouth and Pandy.

Interior of St. Michael’s church. Very welcoming to hikers, with snacks, electricity outlets, and a place to sit down.

Monmouth to Pandy today on #offasdykepath. Cool but dry, occasional breeze, perfect walking weather. A day of sheep pastures for most of the route. 18.1 miles.

Tintern Abbey, a view from above. River Wye behind the Abbey, with trees and the houses of the town filling the frame.

White arched bridge over the Wye. Blue sky above and muddy water below.

Horses graze in a green pasture. Trees in the distance, blue sky above.

First full day on #offasdykepath, from Chepstow to Monmouth mostly contouring the ridges above the Wye. Just under 20 miles including getting to the trail itself, and over 3,200 feet of elevation gain, Including that 800-ft climb just before Monmouth, which about did me in. Beautiful sunny day.

Stone monument in Welsh and English marking the beginning of Offa’s Dyke Path.

Me in the foreground, and behind the Severn Bridge and scudding dark clouds. Foliage hides the cliff behind me.

Path cuts straight atop a green dyke. Rolling hills and copses in the background, beneath a blue and cloudy sky.

Against a blue sky a marker post, showing “Offa’s Dyke Path” and a stylized acorn, the symbol of UK national paths.

Tagged the beginning of #offasdykepath near Chepstow today and heading northbound tomorrow. Warm and breezy; a great start.

Bwlch Penbarras - Wikipedia

Very happy 16km today on #OffasDykePath finishing at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bwlch_Penbarras
Loving the #Halfmanhalfbiscuit connection

Looking south from Moel Famau
#moelfamau
#clwydianrange
#offasdyke
#offasdykepath
#fujifilm
#fujifilmxseries
#fujifilmxt4

A bit of a dreary #walk today. A local loop taking in a bit of #offasdykepath and the #heartofwaleslinetrail. It seems to have been quite a dreary winter all in all.

A photo titled "Montgomery Canal near Welshpool", taken near Canal Weir, Gungrog by Woffenden on Flickr.

📍: Canal Weir, Gungrog
ℹ️: weir
🗺: www.openstreetmap.org/
📸: Photo by Woffenden on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/49609918@N04/28701261553

#canal #narrowboat #wales #uk #flickr #offasdykepath

1. Prestatyn – Bodfari (21 km/13 m) From north to south As I said in the short introduction this blog about Offa’s Dyke Path will cover more or less half of the trail and we decided to start north in Prestatyn and head southwar…

Day 1 on #offasdykepath is between Prestatyn and Bodfari. seatothelandbeyond.wordpress.com/2019/02/25/1... Climbing from the coastal town you pass stretches of green meadows and fields and ascend and descend towards Bodfari #walking #hiking #wales #offasdyke

Offa’s Dyke Path: A summary Whose what? Just as is the case with Hadrian’s Wall Offa’s Dyke Path also follows a historical border of sorts. Offa (Icling) was king of Mercia from 757 until 796. Mercia was one of the different …

The second blog series is about Offa's Dyke Path, a national trail on the historic border between Mercia and the Welsh lands. seatothelandbeyond.wordpress.com/2019/02/22/o... #offasdyke #offasdykepath #wales

90k Project to Make Key Tourism Site More Accessible is Completed A £90,000 project to make Offa’s Dyke more accessible to visitors has been completed thanks to grant funding secured by Powys County Council.

#offasdyke #offasdykepath

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekAforAngles
Day 5
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Browning

#OffasDykePath
#fingerpostfriday

Been to see the sea in North Wales today. I needed a couple of stamps that I’d missed when I hiked #Offasdykepath earlier in the year. Grey sort of day.

the wandering whetstone on Hergest Ridge. #OffasDykePath. #fingerpostfriday

Footpath descending from Foel Fellni before ascending up to Moel Famau in the distance. Wales.

#FootPathFriday #OffasDykePath

Heather with purple blooms on the moor as described in the text.

#MoorMonday #florespondence #Bloomscrolling #landscapephotography

Cyrn-y-Brain Wales #OffasDykePath.

A wooden finger post pointing two directions with a yellow arrow on each pointer. A laminated sheet displays a poem attached to the bottom of the post at a height walkers can read. In the background is lush ferns and grasses covering a valley, on the slopes behind are some tall trees. The sky is bright but cloudy.

‘Cynddylan on the rocks’ Denbighshire #FingerPostFriday
#poetry by Geraint Jones inspired by #OffasDykePath written to celebrate its 50th year in 2021. “Don’t mock Cynddylan on the rocks
like many round here do, be kind, he is an old man abandoned
with banshees in his mind”