Landie_Man

New Member

• Jun 27, 2010

• #1

I plan to do a greenlane trip in Wales, starting from the end of the Severn Bridge in Newport. I hear there are good lanes round there, going north, with lanes further up.

Any tips, and lane locations?

 

90boy

Well-Known Member

• Jun 28, 2010

• #2

buy a os map and have a look

 

kwhajh

Active Member

• Jun 28, 2010

• #3

So which maps tell you what green lanes are good ? I sense the chap was looking for some advice from those who have been before rather than lines on a map....not unreasonable really.
Apologies, I cannot help, only done those north of that in Strata and beyond.

 

90boy

Well-Known Member

• Jun 28, 2010

• #4

Very simple ring the rights of way officer in the area you want to go to or better still go and see them and the definative map once you have the maps and route its the best thing to do

 

fenby1976

New Member

• Jul 1, 2010

• #5

I've not done any laning around Newport, but there are quite a few lanes between Abercynon and Neath on Landranger 170 OS map. I've driven some nice lanes around the Afan Valley and then there is the Southern section of Sarn Helen (which I think is currently open) between Aberdulais and Dyffryn Cellwen. You'll need Landranger 160 for that trail too. Landranger 160 is worth getting because it shows lots of trails around Llandovery. There are some great trails around Brechfa too (Landranger 146), but avoid the one running along the Cothi river because it's undriveable. Landranger 147 shows the Strata Florida and Soar-y-Mynydd trails and some other good stuff aroud Rhayader (don't try the one from the Northern tip of the Claerwen rsvr to the northern tip of the Craig Goch rsvr as it's closed. Next up is Landranger 135 which shows loads of trails around Pumlimon mountain and Happy Valley. Hours of fun to be had along all that lot.

 

Last edited: Jul 1, 2010

300tdistu

Well-Known Member

• Jul 1, 2010

• #6

found this info on lanes they have been checked by paul humphreys Off-Road Guru, crag member on Sun Feb 28, 2010 8:28 pm



Start SJ239314 (ish)
Finish SJ191335 (ish) Cefn-y-braich-uchaf

Start SJ196333 (ish)
Finish SJ211344 (ish)

Llwybr Ceirlog Trail

Upper Ceirlog Way

Start SJ189336 (ish)
Finish SJ188343

Start SJ189335
Finish SJ173323 (start upper Ceirlog way)

There seems to be two Upper Ceirlog Way - the one that starts/stops at Penybryn

SJ165338
SJ162357

SJ129356
SJ083367 here it seems to fork off left to Llandrillo and right to just southwest ish of Cynwyd

SJ223375
SJ225382

SJ226398
SJ252404 (Llwybr Ceirlog Trail) over looking Vale of Llangollen




Quote by paul

All ok, but for the one starts at http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?...archp=ids.srf&dn=812&ax=322108&ay=337312&lm=0 is not where you have it, if it is wet you will not make it up and are better off coming down.





this is a copy and past, like i said all info off another forum for all to see

 

Last edited: Jul 1, 2010

Pikey

Dummy Ejection Facilitator..

• Jul 1, 2010

• #7

300tdistu said:

found this info on lanes they have been checked by paul humphreys Off-Road Guru, crag member on Sun Feb 28, 2010 8:28 pm

this is a copy and past, like i said all info off another forum for all to see

Click to expand...

And so what??? they are just grid reference for start and end of a lane something that anyone with a paper map or Memory map, etc can find for themselves just by looking at the map. IF they were full route cards or tulip drawings I'd be a bit more worried.

 

Landie_Man

New Member

• Jul 2, 2010

• #8

Thanks Guys. Will contact rangers and consult maps!

 

fenby1976

New Member

• Jul 2, 2010

• #9

You could spend days looking at difinitive maps in county council offices to find out if a trail is legal to drive. The next best (and considerably easier) thing you can do to research trails is to join GLASS and use their trailwise greenlane database:

TrailWise - The National Catalogue of Rights of Way

It can show you all the greenlanes in a given area, then you can click on a lane to bring up information, such as legal status and a bit of a description.

 

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Paul_Humphreys

New Member

• Jul 4, 2010

• #10

fenby1976 said:

You could spend days looking at difinitive maps in county council offices to find out if a trail is legal to drive. The next best (and considerably easier) thing you can do to research trails is to join GLASS and use their trailwise greenlane database:

TrailWise - The National Catalogue of Rights of Way

It can show you all the greenlanes in a given area, then you can click on a lane to bring up information, such as legal status and a bit of a description.

Click to expand...

You also get access with a CRAG membership