Walks you can reach from Pyle by train
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Port Talbot Parkway to Briton Ferry (Glamorgan)
6 minutes direct from Pyle.
Recommended
Walk details: Railwalks.
Briton Ferry to Swansea (Glamorgan)
15 minutes direct from Pyle.
Recommended
Walk details: Railwalks.
Port Talbot Parkway to Maesteg (Glamorgan)
6 minutes direct from Pyle.
Bridgend to Pencoed (Glamorgan)
7 minutes direct from Pyle.
A walk of two parts: well-defined paths and ginnels through the Brackla housing estate, then off-road field, woodland and quiet country-lane walking. Some sections are steep, with stiles and steps and ground that can be boggy in the woods even in dry weather. Part of the route follows the Bridgend Circular Walk. Pencoed has trains to Bridgend, Swansea and Cardiff, so the walk can be done in either direction.
Time: 2h–4h30
Lunch: Pubs, cafes, shops and supermarkets at Brackla triangle and in Pencoed.
Warnings: Heol Simonston is busy with fast traffic and the crossing points have poor sight lines; cross with great care. The high-banked lanes near Coed y Mwstwr have no verge. There are several stiles and steep, difficult ground approaching the M4 tunnel; using the underpass at Princess Way is simpler and safer than the road crossing. Can be muddy.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Bridgend to Llantwit Major (Glamorgan)
7 minutes direct from Pyle.
Bridgend to Port Talbot Parkway (Glamorgan)
7 minutes direct from Pyle.
Walk details: Railwalks.
Neath to Port Talbot Parkway (Glamorgan)
15 minutes direct from Pyle.
You can see all the way around Swansea Bay and across the sea to Exmoor on a clear day. A scenic, very largely off-road walk on woodland and hill trails, climbing high onto Mynydd Dinas to the national coast path with sweeping views over Swansea Bay and the steelworks and across to Exmoor. A steep descent into Port Talbot with many wooden steps; trails are tree-rooty and muddy in short sections. Follows the Wales Coast Path along the top of Mynydd Dinas; picks up Baglan and Briton Ferry as jumping-on points.
Woodland: two fifths under tree cover.
Time: 3h30–7h
Lunch: Shops at Briton Ferry are a short detour off-route.
Warnings: A steep descent with lots of wooden steps into Port Talbot; short tree-rooty and muddy sections hinder wheeling. Keep an eye out to get under the M4 and cross a busy road correctly near Port Talbot.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Llanharan to Trehafod (Glamorgan)
15 minutes direct from Pyle.
Pontyclun to Pontypridd (Glamorgan)
30 minutes direct from Pyle.
Maesteg to Briton Ferry (Glamorgan)
15 minutes direct from Pyle.
Pontarddulais to Gowerton (Glamorgan)
45 minutes direct from Pyle.
Neath to Maesteg (Glamorgan)
15 minutes direct from Pyle.
A valley route whose second half from Pontrhydyfen to Maesteg is good, but whose first half is problematic: proposed detours to avoid the B4287 cross ground that is not a right of way and is in places impassable and the descent into Maesteg is across pathless scrubland.
Woodland: a quarter under tree cover.
Time: 5h–10h
Warnings: The first half is hard to follow and partly impassable; some detours cross land with no right of way. The descent into Maesteg has no obvious path. The B4287 has no pavement.
Walk details: Slow Ways.