Dingestow Discoveries (7.4km) Print

Dingestow Discoveries Waypoint 1
This is one of three Tread & Trot trails designed for walkers, horse riders and mountain bikers to explore the fabulous Monmouthshire countryside. The trails were developed by Adventa, a rural development initiative providing support to Monmouthshires rural businesses. For more information, please visit the Tread & Trot website. This is a moderately hilly route, using a mixture of green lanes, forestry tracks, fields and tarmac lanes. The route can be shortened via a road section past Floodbrook House. Walk away from Dingestow and over the River Trothy. Turn left after the bridge up into Mill Wood (not down private drive to Mill Farm) following the bridleway sign through the wood. Go through the gate into the field and walk diagonally uphill across the field and slightly to your right. Pass through another gate and continue straight across the field heading for some farm buildings (one has a red roof) in the distance. Go through the gate onto the drive to Treowen House.

Dingestow Discoveries Waypoint 2
Turn left, walking past a pond and horse chestnut tree on your right. Keep on this track past the magnificent 17th century mansion of Treowen. Keep on this track passing some farm buildings on the left. Straight after the buildings take the track on the left, through Treowen Wood to a wooden field gate, framing a fantastic view stretching from the Blorenge to Hay Bluff. Pass through the gate and head across the field to another gate. Walk downhill to the river.

Dingestow Discoveries Waypoint 3
Keeping the river to your left continue until you reach the footbridge, turn with your back to the footbridge and head across the same field to the gate opposite. Pass through the gate, over the concrete culvert and follow the old track up and around the bank and down to the field gate. Go through the gate and carry straight on keeping the hedge to your left. Look out for a pond in the field on your left where you may spot a heron. Carry on alongside the hedge, through rolling pastureland where cattle often graze, passing through several more gates until reaching the road at Lower Hendre and go right. At the brow of the hill leave the road as it bears to the right around Lower Hendre Farm and take the track on the left marked Offa\'s Dyke (for the shortcut, remain on the road to rejoin the route at point 6). Continue straight on along the track, passing the Forestry Commission barrier, for approximately 1.6km until you reach an open junction of paths.

Dingestow Discoveries Waypoint 4
At the junction, turn right taking the main forest road and continue straight uphill until the next right turn. Turn right following the forest track through Whitehill Wood until reaching a gate leading out of the wood. Continue downhill through the farmyard, passing Whitehill Farm on the right.

Dingestow Discoveries Waypoint 5
Turn right onto the lane. Follow this downhill and look out for the tiny Primitive Methodist Chapel of Gwern-y-Saint, built in 1850. Its tucked away behind a yew tree on the right, just before the first house on the right. Continue along this lane until you reach a left turn down a farm track.

Dingestow Discoveries Waypoint 6
Take this track and continue past two cottages until you reach farm buildings on the right at Treowen. Keep straight on, following the track past Treowen mansion until a bridleway sign on the right opposite a small pond. Take this path which crosses two fields before entering Mill Wood through a gateway. Follow the path downhill through the wood and turn right at the road which leads into Dingestow Village.