Tintern Abbey And Wye Valley Walk

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
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    Distance: 8.47 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 3h 00 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
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    Vertical gain: + 196 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 190 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 193 m
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    Lowest point: 3 m
  • ⚐
    District: Wye Valley 
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    Start/End: N 51.698026° / W 2.677194°
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Description

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Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 7 m - Start on
  2. 2 : km 0.05 - alt. 8 m - Turn right
  3. 3 : km 0.33 - alt. 13 m - Turn left onto A466
  4. 4 : km 0.44 - alt. 12 m - Turn right
  5. 5 : km 0.46 - alt. 11 m - Keep left
  6. 6 : km 0.85 - alt. 14 m - Turn sharp right
  7. 7 : km 1.02 - alt. 39 m - Keep right
  8. 8 : km 1.15 - alt. 59 m - Turn sharp right
  9. 9 : km 1.16 - alt. 62 m - Keep left
  10. 10 : km 1.35 - alt. 101 m - Turn slight right
  11. 11 : km 1.42 - alt. 119 m - Turn slight right
  12. 12 : km 1.51 - alt. 119 m - Turn left
  13. 13 : km 1.9 - alt. 176 m - Turn right
  14. 14 : km 4.68 - alt. 79 m - Turn left
  15. 15 : km 5.33 - alt. 13 m - Turn right
  16. 16 : km 5.41 - alt. 12 m - Turn left
  17. 17 : km 5.53 - alt. 12 m - Turn left
  18. 18 : km 5.57 - alt. 10 m - Turn slight left
  19. 19 : km 5.61 - alt. 9 m - Turn right onto Quayside
  20. 20 : km 5.63 - alt. 9 m - Turn sharp right
  21. 21 : km 5.76 - alt. 10 m - Turn right onto Wye Valley Railway & Wye Valley Walk
  22. 22 : km 5.79 - alt. 9 m - Keep right onto Wye Valley Railway & Wye Valley Walk
  23. 23 : km 6.51 - alt. 12 m - Turn right onto Wye Valley Walk
  24. 24 : km 6.56 - alt. 6 m - Turn sharp left
  25. 25 : km 7.2 - alt. 9 m - Turn slight right
  26. 26 : km 7.26 - alt. 11 m - Turn slight left onto Main Road, A466
  27. 27 : km 8.04 - alt. 12 m - Turn sharp right
  28. 28 : km 8.04 - alt. 12 m - Turn right onto Main Road, A466
  29. 29 : km 8.16 - alt. 13 m - Turn left
  30. 30 : km 8.44 - alt. 8 m - Turn right
  31. S/E : km 8.47 - alt. 9 m

Useful Information

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Walking The Angidy valley

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↔6.14 km ↗+121 m ↘-122 m ◔2h 05 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Wye Valley (Monmouthshire)

Woodland walking and industrial heritage on a walk with several options for short-cuts.

Walking Brockweir and the Wye

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↔4.99 km ↗+60 m ↘-59 m ◔1h 35 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Wye Valley (Monmouthshire)

Along and across the Wye to a historic English village, returning via woodland.

Walking Offa’s Dyke and the Devil’s Pulpit

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↔9.20 km ↗+251 m ↘-248 m ◔3h 20 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Wye Valley (Monmouthshire)

Outward along an old tramway, with a high- level return offering fabulous views.

Walking Brockweir

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↔3.74 km ↗+21 m ↘-20 m ◔1h 10 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Wye Valley (Monmouthshire)

A figure of eight walk centred on the delightful village of Brockweir. The walk is mainly level along the Wye Valley on old railway tracks, the riverbank and minor roads, part in Wales and part in Gloucestershire.

Walking Angidy Trail

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↔6.18 km ↗+160 m ↘-162 m ◔2h 15 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Wye Valley (Monmouthshire)

Follow the Angidy Trail and discover Tintern’s hidden industry – the furnace, forge and wireworks, the workers’ cottages, limekilns, tidal dock and church where generations of metal workers were baptised, married and buried.

Walking Whitestone

AONB
↔3.32 km ↗+68 m ↘-62 m ◔1h 10 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Wye Valley (Monmouthshire)

There is a gentle uphill incline near the start of this mainly level woodland walk. There are stunning views down into the Wye Valley and a stop at the waterfall that may have been the sounding cataract, in Wordsworth’s ‘Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey’.

Walking Whitestone, Whitebrook and the Wye

AONB
↔23.24 km ↗+413 m ↘-410 m ◔7h 50 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Wye Valley (Monmouthshire)

Explore our fabulous Monmouthshire countryside. Enjoy riverside views beside the Wye and discover hidden heritage along the way.

Walking Tintern’s Hidden History

AONB
↔17.45 km ↗+462 m ↘-469 m ◔6h 20 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Devauden (Monmouthshire)

The route is a mixture of green lanes, forestry tracks and tarmac lanes. There are steep uphill climbs out of Tintern on either side of the Angidy Valley. The route is way-marked. Look out for these along the way. Numbers on the map relate to numbers in the text. You can start at any point and go in either direction (these directions follow a clockwise route). This route links up with the northern Wye Valley trail, Whitestone, Whitebrook and the Wye.

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