You might like to check out the Greyhound Pub in Llangunllo and see if it is still open, it has had a checkered career, being closed for many years after the old Landlord died. He played for Preston Northend but ended his working life on the Central Wales railway line. He bought the Greyhound and retired there, I met him shortly before he died, he was living in the bar, where the locals bought meals in for him and served themselves at the bar. After he died the three heirs tried to sell the pub for development, fortunately without success, it remained shut up for several years, but the locals got it going again.
First time I went to this pub group of locals told be that there was a waterfall so well hidden that it would be impossible to find, unless you were taken there, I did find it, Water Breaks it's Neck falls. Amazing place, made more difficult to find because it is on the join of three OS sheets of the Explorer maps. It was around the time I had just started to used digital maps, by joining together scans of paper maps
, which was how I worked out how to get to the waterfall, with one click and memory map I can now look at the surround area, so easy,
. Just to the west of Cnwch Bank there is a defile running up to the the source of the River Lugg, I remember thinking that would be a lovely place to wild camp. When I climbed out of the defile onto the moor above, after a few yards, I looked back and could see were I had come from, just flat moorland for miles. Shortly after that I met this German lady walking Glyndwr's way and she asked me what I thought of the route, I told her it was pretty good but some of the best bits were close by but you could not get to them. On being asked why that was, I had to explain about rights of ways and landowners. Her reply made me laugh,
"Vat do zeese landovner's think, zat I vill steal zere land and take it back to Bavaria! Put my little 'off piste ventures into a more comfortable perspective. I was thinking of that lady yesterday as I found a safe way to use a mile of useless right of way, that dumps the righteous walker onto the very nasty bit of the A417 near Bodenham and managed to make a safe connection via two field service bridges to a mile of lost way that used to be used by children walking to school. By the way I landed up at the back gate to Hampton Court Gardens and had a free stroll around
I really should write a TR about it, I suppose, and warn my fellow walkers about the dangers of tripping over 'privacy notices', it is amazing the remote places so people love to hang these things.