The way points of this bicycle route:
For me this route is lift assisted. I got a lift to the start point and RV'd with them for a lift back from Dinas Cross. The start point ties in with start point of the Cardigan section of my Pembrokeshire Coast MTB Route. However, the following initial uphill road section feels a little pointless. Nevertheless, with the entrance to the RUPP to your right start the climb up the hill.
At the crossroads with the main A487 go straight over (take care of traffic).
On the map the farm track to the left looks like a handy shortcut, but don't bother, I believe it is strictly private.
Turn left at the crossroads and look out for a bridleway on your right as the road goes downhill.
Turn sharp right into a gateway onto a bridleway running back up the hill. Start of Off-Road Section 1. Nearly 3 miles to the first Off-Road Section ... maybe I'll look at changing that!
Straght-on at the T-junction.
Can't remember the exact route, but it is well signed.
Keep right to stay on bridleway.
Bear right through the gate in front of the stables into a paddock. Aim to the opposite corner of the paddock.
Leave the paddock via a gate to the right of the stable block.
Take the next right onto a grassy track by a tall stone wall.
Go Straight-on at the T-junction. I think it's a sealed surface from here. End of Off-Road Section 1.
Go straight-on onto the main road. Then follow the sharp bend round to the left. You're looking for the next farm road bearing off to the right.
Bear right onto a bridleway along a farm access track. Start of Off-Road Section 2. This is a good fast track with a downhill bias.
Go straight through the farmyard and out the other side.
Bear right, don't go into the farmyard.
Turn left in the farmyard. It barely looks like it but this is the public road. End of Off-Road Section 2. Follow the road till it ends at a private entrance to a house with a bridleway alongside.
Bear left onto bridleway which runs alongside private access road to house. Start of Off-Road Section 3. This is a very fast grassy downhill into Ceibwr Bay. Watch out for the gate around a corner. Watch out for ramblers. Take care at the bottom as you enter the darkness of the trees the ground gets boggy and it could be easy to not notice the gate!!
Watch out for the gate around this corner.
Turn right through gateway.
Exit residential property down driveway to the right of the house. End of Off-Road Section 3. Unfortunatly there now follows a massive 7 mile road section (not counting the tiny Off-Road Section 4). Sorry, there is nothing we can legally use in between!!
Bear left up the hill to the road.
Merge right onto the road. I'm afraid you now have a long road section with a monster climb out of Ceibwr followed by a long sustained more gentle climb. The only saving grace is it eventually heads back downhill into Newport.
Straight-on at the crossroads.
Turn right at the T-junction. The road continues to climb then eventually descends. Look for a gentle left turn sign-posted Newport in just over 3 miles.
This is approximately the peak of this road section at approx 186m.
Bear left towards Newport (signposted). By now you've seen a view opening up ahead of you of Carningli Common and the Preseli Mountains beyond it. We're going up the shoulder of the hill to the right of the foremost significant peak. Looks impressive!
Cross the bridge and follow the road up the hill into the town.
Turn right onto the main A487 at the T-junction. Keep an eye out for the second left into Market St.
Turn left up Market St.
Go straight-on over the slightly staggered crossroads into Castle St.
The road peters out into a gravel singletrack. Start of the very short Off-Road Section 4.
Dismount to climb up some steep narrow steps onto the road and turn right. End of Off-Road Section 4.
Turn left up the the hill at the T-junction. Look out for a bridleway a short distance after a cattle grid.
Cattle grid.
Bear right off the road onto a gravel track through the trees. The RUPP is sign-posted as a bridleway. Start of Off-Road Section 5.
Bear left. Signposted bridleway but not very clearly.
Bear left away from the house.
I seem to remember being tempted by the directions to take off through a gateway into a field. Don't stay on the main track.
The Common opens up here and the track becomes a little less constraining. Bear Right onto the grassier track.
Follow the grassy track down between the fields.
Through the gateway go straight-on away from the house to your right. End of Off-Road Section 5.
Turn left at the T-junction.
Turn left onto a gravel track bridleway. Start of Off-Road Section 6.
Tun left at the T-junction in the bridleway. You now head downhill - take care of pedestrians.
Straight-on between the houses/farm buldings.
Once you can see the road double back to the right and pick up the bridleway up the other side of the property you just passed.
End of Off-Road Section 6. Turn right onto the road. Look out for the bridleway to the right a little way after the bridge on the right hand corner in the road.
I didn't find this one. Turn right onto a bridleway. Start of Off-Road Section 7. I think it runs down the side of the fields in the right.
As the field on the right ends you need to keep the fields to the left in sight.
Turn left onto the road. End of Off-Road Section 7. Look out for the bridleway on the left heading back up the hill.
Turn sharp left onto bridleway heading back up the hill. Skirt the fields on the right. Start of Off-Road Section 8.
If the reference field boundaries disappear at this point aim for the corner in the drystone wall of the field ahead.
As you round the apex of the corner of the stone walling the bridleway's route to the road is clear.
End of Off-Road Section 8. Turn right onto the road and climb the hill. As the road levels the next Off-Road Section is on the right.
As the road levels look out for a gap in the raised stone banks. Start of Off-Road Section 9. This RUPP descends all the way back down to the A487. It's fast, rocky and totally brilliant. This is the main reason why I've reversed this route.
Take the right hand track. There is a waymark post.
The track leads you to a corner of two drystone walls and a gateway. Through this gate and followthe track between the fields.
Cross the farm track and skirt the field on the right.
Bear right away from the farm.
Turn right when you reach the farm and a sealed surface road. End of Off-Road Section 9.
Turn left onto the main A487. This is a busy fast A-road - take care of traffic. Look out for a right turn sign-posted Cwm-yr-Eglwys.
Turn right down the road sign-posted Cwm-yr-Eglwys. Look out for a bridleway off to the left at a dog leg in the road.
Turn left into bridleway. Start of Off-Road Section 10.
End of Off-Road Section 10.
Turn right into the village of Bryn-Henllan.
This is the end-point. I rode up to the A487 where it was easy to RV with someone for a lift.
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This is based very very loosely around the Pembrokeshire Coast path. Since we can't ride on footpaths, the idea was a MTB route drawing some inspiration from the coastal path. As always with me the emphasis is to get off-road otherwise I'd have just followed the coastal road. I've had some difficulty locating a couple of the off-road sections. This route was initially contrived West to East, but I think it may well be a better route in reverse so the I've written the instructions to go East to West. 29.8% Off-Road
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