Upper Borth and Cliff Path

Walk Details

Directions

Points of Interest

1 Face away from the Holiday Centre, looking north with sea to your left. Cross car park to pick up a path and cross footbridge over a small stream.

2 Pass the Uppingham Playing Fields and tennis courts on your right. At the Memorial Sports and Community Hall turn left to reach main road.

3 Turn right for a short distance (about 80 yards), watching for a footpath sign on your left. Cross road and pass between houses to reach shingle beach.

4 Turn left. If low water use beach, otherwise follow shingle bank. [In very rough weather, stay on the road.]

5 Pass Lifeboat Station to your left. Cross slipway. As grassy cliff begins on left, rejoin road and turn right at the junction to follow Cliff Road with sea on your right.

6 As houses finish you pass through a gate to join the cliff path. Climb to the War Memorial, pausing for excellent views all round Cardigan Bay and inland.

7 Stay on cliff path to descend via some steps to a secluded and rocky bay.

8 Turn left here across a stile by a gate to follow the clear track. Left again at the junction (near three small chalets above on your left.) Pass Penygraig Farm on the left, then caravan parks on either side. Stay on lane, turning left as you pass the entrance to Brynrodyn on the right.

9 Reach the road and turn right to climb steep but short hill. Just beyond another entrance to Brynrodyn cross to a seat on the left and follow track to your left. Pass a house on your left and go ahead through gate to footpath. Reach the lane and turn left for about 300 yards. Find a footpath fingerpost on your left and cross a stile. After two further stiles you reach a small caravan park. Go ahead to the road.

10 Cross and turn right . Pass a bus stop on the left and in about 50 yards turn left to go through small new housing estate. Turn right and then down the road to join a right of way between houses. Join grassy track and turn right.

11 Cross road and go straight ahead down a lane to enter the Brynowen Holiday Centre. Keep straight ahead at facilities complex; after caravans the track becomes a footpath and emerges rather suddenly on to the road (take special care here). Turn left and soon there is a footpath sign and a right turn into the car park.

Uppingham Playing Fields Borth has a strong link historically with Uppingham Public School in the English Midlands. In 1876 a serious epidemic closed the school for several years and boys and staff were moved to Borth. There is a plaque on the tourist office near where the school was located in a former hotel. Our route passes the Uppingham playing fields.

Lifeboat Station Worth a visit.

Cliff Path This is part of the Heritage Coast path and although we follow only a short section, the path stretches all the way down the coast to Cardigan. The section from Borth to Aberystwyth is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest [SSSI]

War Memorial commemorating the dead of two world wars, this vantage point has some of the best views on the Welsh coast.

Views Cors Fochno, Ynyslas Sand Dunes and the Dyfi Estuary are to the north of our route but clearly visible from the war memorial. They form part of the Dyfi National Nature Reserve and offer splendid walking for another day. The legend of the Cantre’r Gwaelod tells of land swamped by the ocean. Roots and stumps of trees from a petrified forest are visible at certain tides on the beach at Borth. Further south at Wallog is Sarn Cynfelin an unusual geological feature of a stony ridge visible at low water and stretching out to sea; it also has associations with the Cantre’r Gwaelod legend.