Lead: Frank
Report on walk at Parc Slip nature reserve
Saturday’s walk was a revisit to Parc Slip nature reserve which provides 10 km of walking tracts and 4km of cycle paths, all traffic free!!, which have been developed on an old coal mine site and a more recent open cast site.
Our route took the paved cycle route through the now well-established forest and brought us to the Tondu Iron works, probably the best preserved in Britain. We returned to out start point, using another forest path.
After refreshments we headed westwards over the old opencast site and used the cycle route which runs alongside now disused Porthcawl to Tondu railway line. After some two miles we found the ruins of another iron works in Bedford Park. Our return was over the nature reserve.
Total distance was 7 miles and all traffic free!!
Wick Wanderers 