5 July
Well, it's been a while. Did this little walk while spending a week's leave this last week staying at my parents' house. When there I always enjoy looking up at
Blorenge, a cuddly-looking hill to the south of the town, and had been idly pondering a walk up it. This week got around to trying a route out of Chris Barber's
The Seven Hills of Abergavenny, which includes four walks on Blorenge - I chose 'Around the summit plateau', which is a bit of a cop-out in terms of actually climbing the hill, as most of your ascent is done in the car driving up the
B4246, which has great views and one positively hairpin bend.
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| Summit of Blorenge (albeit I didn't actually climb it) |
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| Looking down towards Abergavenny |
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Parked at the car park just off the B4246 next to
Keeper's Pond at around 9:00 am - just me and a dog walker (and his dog) there - and took a brief stroll along the path around the lake, to admire the views. The little lake - which was glinting v. prettily in the sun - is apparently artificial; the book informed me it was constructed around 1820 as a water supply for the
Blaenavon Ironworks and
Garnddyrys Forge. From the pond I walked a bit further along the road to the Foxhunter car park, next to two prominent masts, and then took the pretty obvious path across the moorland that leads straight to Blorenge's summit. Had the summit to myself so stood for a minute attempting to think deep thoughts, and taking a selfie.
Followed the path onwards towards the edge of Blorenge's steep north east face which overlooks Abergavenny. Again, had the place to myself apart from the sheep. Admired the views for a while, then attempted to 'contour around the lip of the escarpment to the left', as advised by the book. Path initially not too obvious but became more so further on. Followed the path back to Keeper's Pond. It apparently joins an old tram road en route though I can't say I noticed the point where this happened.
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| The route as shown in Chris Barber's book |
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