‘How green are our valleys?’: in the footsteps of miners on south Wales’s new forest trail
The first stage of an ambitious new hiking route that will link woodlands across Wales takes walkers into the wild hills above the valleys’ old mining…
According to The Guardian, the first stage of an ambitious new hiking route that will link woodlands across Wales takes walkers into the wild hills above the valleys’ old mining villages Bracken and heather ripple across the plateau.
I exhale into the chill autumn air and my breath mists a view that reaches all the way to Gower and the ochre peaks of Bannau Brycheiniog (formerly the Brecon Beacons).
This travel story centres on the United Kingdom. Names and organisations mentioned in the coverage include Wales, Bracken and Gower.
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