[1] With your back to the Neuadd Arms Hotel (SN879467), turn right along Dolecoed Road, which is signed for Abergwesyn.
[2] As you approach the former Dol-y-Coed Hotel (now the home of Charcroft Electronics), leave the road and keep ahead through the parking area and along the drive (a public footpath) past the left-hand side of the building. Go through a gate and bear left along the footpath beside the Afon (River) Irfon. In the grounds on your right is the site of a spring, whose waters one Rev Theophilus Evans claimed in 1732 cured his scurvy. From then on the fame of such treatments spread, with other wells in the town also opening up to the public. Ignore the first footbridge on your left and continue to the next one – just after you go through a kissing gate and before the path joins the road.
[3] Cross the bridge and turn immediately right. A few yards on, turn left up beside the fence to the houses. Turn right, soon going through a gate, and continue along the path through a field. Bear right when you reach a track that soon becomes a lane passing Dinas Mill, leading to old Llanwrtyd and the attractive 14th-century St David’s Church.
[4] Bear right in front of the church and follow the road across the river, heading back towards Llanwrtyd Wells. Soon, turn back sharp left and walk along the lane, which leads past a drive to Kilsby on the right. There are some lovely views here up the Irfon valley, the hillsides cloaked in trees. At a fork, keep right and continue uphill. Go through a gate and carry on to the end of the road and a pair of gates. Go through the one on the right and head on up the stony track, which takes you onto open moorland.
[5] At the edge of the forest, it’s worth making a detour right to climb to the top of Garn Dwad to enjoy the views. There’s a fence at the top but you can get over it at its left-hand end by the trees. Turn right a short distance to the cairn atop the 440m/1,443ft summit.
[6] Retrace your steps to point 5 and go through the gate, heading down the bridleway through the forest. Turn right at the next junction along a forestry track and right again along the bridleway beside Nant Cerdin. Continue on the lane from Gilfach farm to the A483.
[7] If of interest, the Cambrian Woollen Mill (with shop and restaurant) is just along the road to the left. Turn right along the pavement, back to Llanwrtyd Wells.