Beguildy Ride (10.18 miles 16.29 km ) Print
A moorland ride from Brandy House Farm where you can stay with your horse, or park with permission. Brandy House Farm Felindre, Knighton LD7 1YL phone 01547 510282. The ride needs some navigating skills but follows the fence on the edge of the open moor for much of the circuit. Brandy House Farm does guided rides too!Download: Beguildy.gpx Beguildy Waypoints.gpx
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Climb up the track from Brandy House farm then curve right uphill.
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Once through the gate bear left and straight ahead.
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Go through a gate then sharp left to ride straight ahead.
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Ignore the bridleway to your left, carry straight on and then curve round to the left.
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At the junction of bridleways with open fields to the left, bear right to a road.
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Turn left on the road down to the pub at Beguildy.
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Go back the way you came then shortly take a bridleway left, passing through a gate with a wood on your right, then bear slightly left.
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Follow the bridleway to your left.
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At a junction with a road to your left, go straight ahead, ignoring the bridleway to your right. Go downhill and into a wood.
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After leaving the wood pass a building on the right, and cross a ford, bearing right then left uphill.
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The bridleway bears right on open moorland, then left along the edge of enclosed fields. Pass and continue straight ignoring a bridleway right.
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At the junction of tracks continue downhill. The track bears left then right before continuing straight across a stream and onto a track. This goes right over the top of Black Mountain in a straight line bearing slightly left after the summit.
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At the edge of the open moorland keep the boundary on your left until you meet a road.
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Turn right on the road but as soon as it bears left keep straight on along the contour line.
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Continue along the moor boundary.
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When the boundary swings away from the track keep straight on ignoring bridleways right and left.
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Cross the valley back onto the moor.
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Bear slightly left to the moorland edge then follow that right.
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Ignore the bridleway to the right, carry straight on for a short distance then turn right onto a track which crosses the bridleway.
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At a junction of tracks with a road to your right, turn left to follow the edge of the moor again.
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Return through the gate back down to Brandy House Farm.