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Swansea Ramblers Walk



Bynea Circular




Walk Start / Finish Location:
Bynea Millennium Path Car Park

Walk Distance: 4 miles (2 hours)

Walk Level: Easy

Parking: Bynea Millennium Path Car Park (Charge)

Transport: Traveline - www.traveline.info   - or - Telephone 0871 200 22 33




Walk Description



Take the path behind the display then turn right to the B4297. Cross and turn left.
Turn right after metal fencing onto a track.
Continue straight across the railway line to the footpath behind the house which eventually emerges into a field.
Follow the hedgerow and turn left at the minor road.
After a while turn right through kissing gates then turn right and make for the hedge.
Turn left and follow the hedge through another field to a kissing gate then turn left.
At a small reservoir turn right onto the road then left at the junction.
A short distance on the right is what looks like a private drive but the footpath goes down it.
Bear left alongside the house and descend to a road.
Turn right uphill on the path which shortly rejoins that road.
Continue on the road, turning left at the junction.
Watch on the right for an old tall building.
Here turn left to a gate and continue straight on past kissing gates.
The path continues diagonally across a field and to the road.
Turn downhill to the railway station, cross the B4297 into Berwick Road and enter a farm track just before Berwick Park.
Go past old lorries and between farm buildings.
Follow the hedgerow straight to the very busy A484 and railway line. Take care crossing both.
At the road, turn left through a gate and follow to the coast.
Turn left and cross the Bridge to finish.


Ramblers Cymru and Swansea Ramblers provide these routes but accept no responsibility for those walking them.

If you would like to go on a walk but would prefer to do so with a group of people then click on our Programme section to see what walks we are leading.

We have walks for varying levels of ability and you get the chance to see the countryside in places you might never go by yourself!






Maps of the Walk






Ordnance Survey map of the route to walk
Resizable and draggable
(Can be reset to original dimensions by refreshing the page)
Green Swansea Ramblers logo markers where present can be clicked to provide more information






This aerial map is resizable and draggable
(Can be reset to original dimensions by refreshing the page)

A 25,000 Ordnance Survey map of the area
can be viewed by clicking on the above 'View Larger Map' option
(applies only if the above is a Bing map, not a Google map )



Peoples Collection link

The route of this walk has been added to The National Museum of Wales' Peoples Collection Web site.
A choice of aerial imagery or historic Ordnance Survey mapping is available.
Click the map to enter their web site (opens in a new browser window)
or copy and paste this link into a new browser window.
http://www.peoplescollectionwales.co.uk/trail/662




Photographs of the Walk


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Bynea Car Park off the B42971


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Turn right out of car park


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Turn left on B4297


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Turn right after the metal fence


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A heron on the marsh


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New flood defences


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Reeds in the marsh


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Views towards Loughor Estuary


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Cross railway line


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Follow the hedge to the road after coming out of the enclosed path


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Turn right after second stile


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Follow the hedgerow to the kissing gate


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Turn left after the gate


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Reservoir wall


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Colliery Reservoir


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Turn left at the road junction


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This looks like a private drive but is a right of way


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Bear left to the path


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Onto the road


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Immediately go up onto path which rejoins that road


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Turn left when tall building comes into view


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Old industrial remains


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The left turn opposite that tall building


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Go straight on, NOT as direction arrows show


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Bear right


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Go through kissing gate


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Next gate up ahead


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Go diagonally left


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Follow path to the road


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Turn right and follow road to railway station


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Railway station


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Berwick Road


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Entrance to Berwic Farm


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Lots of lorries parked


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Field just after the farm house


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Old industrial chimney


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Continue straight on to the busy A484


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Take care crossing


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Take care on the rail crossing


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Fast trains on this line


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Turn left onto concrete path


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Path to coast


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Cross bridge to car park




More information about walking in Wales is available at:    www.ramblers.org.uk/wales

Ramblers Cymru and Swansea Ramblers provide this route but accept no responsibility for those walking it

All photographs Copyright 2012 Andrew Morgan. All rights reserved




Swansea Ramblers hope you enjoy doing this walk.

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- for example - path diversions, new gates instead of stiles or maybe the path has become blocked.

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