Route Notes : Moel Morfydd & Moel y Gaer from Bryneglwys

Moel Morfydd is often reached from Rhewl, in a steep and fairly demanding climb. This is a gentler route – a moderately strenuous 2-3 hour walk, to a 550 metre summit (with arguably the best views in the area, of the Panorama and Dee Valley around Llangollen) and its 504 metre neighbour.

Distance 7.6 km approx. (4.7 miles), 364 m ascent.

Start point : By the school in Bryneglwys village, OS Grid Ref SJ 145 473

At the crossroads in the centre of the village by the war memorial, turn right (if travelling from Llandegla/Wrexham direction), and follow to the end where there’s usually parking available by the primary school & playground.

Route :

Walk back to the crossroads and go straight across to follow the lane uphill towards the Vicarage, where a public footpath goes through a gate in the far right corner of the garden, and comes out on a minor road. Turn right onto the road, heading uphill past Ty Newydd and over a cattle grid.

Ignore the bridleway just after the cattle grid, and a further bridleway and a track further on, and carry on uphill until the road levels out and you see a path/track on the left, just before another path meets the road on the right. Take the left hand path here, and follow to the summit & trig point of Moel Morfydd.

From Moel Morfydd, continue to Moel y Gaer, the next summit on the ridge (a celtic hill fort with the remains of its defensive embankment).

Carry on, descending Moel y Gaer on the opposite side, and when you reach the col between Moel y Gaer and Moel y Gamelin where a few paths meet, turn left (staying on the Moel y Gaer side of the valley and stream) on the path which skirts the hillside on its right hand side (following the contours initially, and then starting to descend). As you come off the moorland, the path crosses 3 fields (diagonally and to the left roughly, in the 1st and 3rd fields) then continues on a green lane, before emerging on a minor road by Plas Newydd. Go straight across here onto the lane, then left at the fork (uphill for a short distance) following this road to the end, and then turning left to return to the crossroads in the village centre.