Wales – Loggerheads Country Park, Flintshire/Denbighshire

Distance: 17km/10½ miles
Time: 5-6hrs
Type: Hill and valley
Where: Circular walk from Loggerheads Country Park via Moel Famau and the famous Clwydian Way.
Start/End: Loggerheads Country Park (SJ198626) off the A494 Ruthin-to- Mold road.
Terrain: Well-marked paths and tracks, plus a short stretch of country lane and two crossings of a main road.
Maps: OS Exporer 265; Landranger 116.

The Clwydian Way is a 195km/122-mile circular route through some of North Wales’ finest countryside, created to celebrate the new millennium. It was devised by David Hollett when he was secretary of the Denbighshire Ramblers footpath committee, and starts and ends in the seaside resort of Prestatyn. Volunteers from Denbighshire and members of Wirral Ramblers assisted in surveying and waymarking the trail with its distinctive white disc featuring a buzzard. The local Ramblers’ guidebook to the trail includes 12 short circular routes based on sections of the route, and this walk does likewise. It combines a stretch of the Clwydian Way over the Clwydian Range’s highest point – Moel Famau – with another along the Leete Path in Alyn Valley. The circuit is completed by a section of the Offa’s Dyke Path and a linking bridleway.

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