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Dist:0.2km<br/>This footbridge is part of the trail system in the Cwm Clydach nature reserve.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.4km<br/>A strange combination of hazards here.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.5km<br/>There is no trace of this on the Multimap or OS getamap link. The Welsh Water sign on the gate has had the name of the facility scrubbed out. Even if it is no longer in use it is still a landmark and should appear on the map near the power lines visible in the picture.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.5km<br/>Right beside the maintained path up the east side of the river.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.9km<br/>The river wall pictured in [[177772]] has collapsed a little further upstream here.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.0km<br/>Naws gwledig mor agos i ardal hynod boblog. A rural atmosphere close to a busy area.
©Gerallt Pennant
Dist:1.0km southeast<br/>This is the view southeast down the river. Although it is now a nature reserve and quite overgrown, there are numerous small signs of mining industry here: building foundations, buried steel ropes and the stone walled artificial bank of the river, visible on the curve in the distance.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.1km southeast<br/>The tree lined valley surrounding a crescent shaped portion of the Clydach river is designated as an RSPB Nature Reserve. This information board is near the car park at the south end. The trail and public footpath follow the river most of the way up to the next road bridge at Pont Llechart.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.1km north<br/>Path along mountain side, at the point where the new cross country gas pipeline passes underneath.
©David Lang
Dist:1.2km west<br/>The new pipeline is forming a scar across the whole region at the moment. Here it runs east from Felindre in the distance toward Clydach.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.2km northeast<br/>A recent fire has revealed the contour of a ramp on the dismantled tramway here. This is one of the few remnants of the upper part of the tramway. It now seems to be the path of a few electricity poles. Old maps show the tramway leading from the colliery here down the Clydach valley. Part of it is now a walkway in a riverside nature reserve [[177770]]. The line appeared to continue all the way down to a former industrial area and eventually Cwm Clydach Station. See also [[2889646]]
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.3km northeast<br/>This is a close up of the blocked and overgrown mine entrance shown at the roadside in [[2889646]] See also [[2889708]]
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.3km northeast<br/>This is the view directly across the single track road that runs down from Tor Clawdd into Clydach. The rails from one side of an old tramway can still be seen nearly buried in the tarmac as they cross to a blocked up mine entrance. The 1877 sheet on Old Maps shows that this was called Craig Merthyr Colliery. Confusingly, it appears that there was a more recent and much more substantial working a few valleys west of here, above Pontarddulais, called Graig Merthyr Colliery. See also [[2889667]] & [[2889708]] and Old maps here: http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?txtXCoord=268197&txtYCoord=204640
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.4km south<br/>
©Alex McGregor
Dist:1.5km northeast<br/>This is the view upstream from a public footpath beside the lower Clydach river. The bridge looks quite substantial from down here but actually only carries a narrow single track back road.
©Nigel Davies

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