We did another walk in these remote hills two years before that - Moel Wilym - and as we headed southwards across Warren Bank to Black Mountain, we could clearly see some of that walk's higher points, just a few miles to the west. Further south again, on the shoulder of Stanky Hill, a faint path cuts away to the left and heads for the trig point on Beacon Hill. Two ladies descending the path warned us that the view might not be great - a patch of mist had formed on the higher ground - but it cleared sufficiently for us to take in the panorama of rolling hills in all directions. At 1796', this is one of the highest points in the area, although the 2000' plateau of Radnor Forest, a few miles to the south, tends to limit the view in that direction.

There aren't many paths in this area. For our return route, I'd planned to follow a marked footpath to the Rhoshay ridge - but the only feet that had used the paths we found, after a struggle through deep heather, were attached to round woolly bodies... A good track then follows the ridge, before a final descent through fields to the farmyard and the Warren Brook at Pantycaragle - and the final ¼mile along the road back to Beguildy.

Books and Maps:- The walk illustrated is shown in its entirety on both maps -

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