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The walk
The walk starts from the car park at Conwy station. It leaves the town to the west and climbs onto the east end of Mynydd y Dref, Conwy Mountain. The path follows the crest of the ridge past old millstone quarries to the summit, 244 m, where the stone walls and hut circles of the hillfort of Castell Caer Seion look out over the Conwy estuary and the coast. It carries on west along the ridge and down to the Sychnant Pass, then turns back along the path on the southern slope of the hill to rejoin the outward way above the town.
It is 8.1 km with 321 m of ascent; allow about 3 hours. The grade is Easy.
The paths are grassy and clear, but there are many of them: on the way out keep to the crest, and on the way back to the lower path on the south side. The old quarries on the north side have vertical faces and should be left alone, and the narrower seaward paths have steep drops. The hill is a common grazed by sheep, and the council asks that dogs be kept on a lead.
The station car park charges; there are other car parks in the town. Conwy station is a request stop on the North Wales Coast line.
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Good to know
- Mynydd y Dref, 244 m, the town's mountain, between Conwy and the Sychnant Pass
- Castell Caer Seion, an Iron Age hillfort with more than 50 hut circles, crowns the top
- The hill is the remains of a volcano about 450 million years old
- Its rock was quarried for millstones in the 1790s
Summits on the way
- Conwy Mountain 247 m · passed close by
Getting there
Start: Conwy station · Pay and display. 53.28021, -3.83050
By train: Conwy station is 0.0 km from the start.
Places to stay nearby
Rooms in and around Conwy: Booking.com → Expedia →
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