Page Three
ALONG THE CRIBARTH RIDGE
Keep straight on here and ascend a short rise to a way-marked stile. Cross the stile and hand-rail a stone wall on your left for 250 metres to another stile. Cross and turn right across some duck-boarding, heading North, to come to two way-marker posts at footpath junctions.
Continue heading Northwest up an obvious track (although this can be obscured by high bracken in late summer) and where this becomes wider it was the tramway to an old Silca Sand Quarry.
At a fork in the grassy tramway, bear right. You will see a stile and finger-post to your left. Bear right again onto a steep tramway which was an Inclined Plane used to bring limestone from Cribarth mountain to Abercrave. Bear left at a short way-marker (do not ascend the incline as it is private land) heading Northwest.
The path now contours around the hillside to arrive at Pant-y-Ffyrch and the ruin of an old drovers inn. Cross a stile and head in the direction of signpost saying ‘Open Hill’, continuing Northwards towards a mound of rocks.
After 60 metres, and just before the rocks, you will come to another grassy tramway. Turn right and follow this for 450 metres up another steeply inclined plane, heading NE, up the SW flank of the Cribarth mountain.
At the top of the incline continue walking north-east, following sheep tracks to the summit of Cribarth (423 metres, 1387 ft.), where there is a cairn and white trig-point. Pause to look at the spectacular panoramic views before descending from the summit in a North-Easterly direction to meet a stone wall with a wire fence on the top.
