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CWMGIEDD FROM ABERCRAVE
Go over the style and head 100 metres in a Northerly direction, up the hill towards a conical pile of stones. You are now walking on "Open Hill" which has common grazing rights and de-facto access. Cross a grassy tramway and, keeping the pile of stones to your right, head Northwest (bearing 308 degrees from the pile of stones*) over the hill for 300 metres.  .

*You need at least a simple compass to check your bearing. 

At the top of the hill the Giedd Forest becomes visible to the Northwest.

The forest  lies beyond a number of obvious ground disturbances. These were silica sand quarries, and some have dangerously steep slopes, so skirt North, keeping them to your left, before resuming a West to NorthWest Heading and going down-hill to the stream, which can be seen cutting a valley through the moor-land. This is Nant Ceiliog.

The gate and stile into the forest can be seen to the West at a corner of the forest boundary, behind a stone wall.

At Nant Ceiliog follow it downstream to where it begins to bend left, as it approaches the forest. In all but the wettest weather, it is possible to step across here as it passes between two rocky ledges. 

Beware! limestone can be very slippery. 
If the stream is too high, go back upstream, until you can cross more easily.

Go through the hunting gate next to a stile into the forest plantation and follow the grassy track, which crosses two small streams and can be muddy in places. You are now walking on a permitted path which continues through the forest for four kilometres. 

Follow the bridleway through what is initially conifer forest. On meeting a track from the right carry straight on, keeping the river on your left. The forest now becomes deciduous.

Just before Nant Lar joins Nant Ceiliog from the right, to form Nant Cyw, the ruins of Blaen-y-Cwm appear beside the stream. After a further 150 metres a wide forest track winds down from the right.

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