Parking

Park at Bettws Newydd Village Hall - on the Clytha road out of the village.

Directions

1. Turn right towards the village, then left at the phone box. Go up the hill following the road round to the left as you pass a white bungalow.
2. Continue up to Coed y Bwnydd hill fort (which is a National Trust Property with an information board at the entance).Enter the fort and follow the path round to the left to go around the perimeter. As you round the fort head towards the corrugated roofed barn in the next field.
3. Go through the gate onto this field and keep left of the barn to reach a stile next to a holly tree in the right hand corner. Cross the stile and go left down the hill. Ignore road to right, pass footpath on left opposite old barn, then bridleway on left by pine trees (lovely view).
4. Continue along lane and just before right hand bend turn through gate on left into copse. Take stile into field and keep to hedge as far as next stile. (Good views to Black Mountains and Usk Valley)
5. Retrace your steps as far as the white bungalow. Turn left down lane after the stone building and take 1st stile on right. Head towards telegraph poles. Cross stile, keep to hedge and cross fields going downhill until you reach two gates in front of you.
6. Go through both gates, turn right along hedge. At the end of a lovely stone wall, cross stile into Bettws Newydd chuchyard. (Look at the churchyard and church - rood screen, funeral bier in porch, old yew trees)
7. Leave by main gates and turn left down lane. At the T-junction turn right, pass Alice Springs golf course and the Black Bear pub (unless you’re thirsty) to return to car park.

Points of Interest

St Aeddan's Church, Bettws Newydd dates from the twelfth century but the current building is medieval. The interior contains "perhaps the most complete rood arrangement remaining in any church in England and Wales."[2] The rood screen, loft and tympanum are all in situ. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales considers that the screen is "most remarkable" and "probably unique in the British Isles."

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