Beautiful walk beside the Nedd Fechan from the Waterfalls Centre at Pontneddfechan with the spectacular Sgwd Gwladus at its end.
OS grid ref SN 900076 (car park & info centre) to SN896093
The walk, much of it on the line of a former tramway serving the now abandoned silica mines along the route, takes about 40 minutes one way.
Geology
- Carboniferous: Farewell Rock, Twelve Foot Sandstone, Cumbriense Sandstone, Bishopston Mudstones
Maps
- OS Landranger 160, Explorer map OL12
- Geological — BGS 1:50,000 sheet: 231 ‘Merthyr Tydfil’
Guides
- Geotrail
- ‘Goblin Gwladus’ and ‘Fossils & Firebricks’ audio trails available for download
Facilities
- Waterfalls Centre — new in 2008 — gives information on and interpretation of local area and wider Geopark
- Car parking at SN 900076
- Pubs and shop/PO
- Entry: free
Accessibility
- Largely flat to picnic area.
- Take care beside deep/fast-flowing and cold river, especially on potentially slippery rock surfaces.
Transport links
- By car — at the end of the B4242 from Glynneath
- By train — nearest stations at Neath and Merthyr Tydfil — see Traveline Cymru
- By bus — see Traveline Cymru