The Source of the Severn

Yesterday Thelma & I walked up to the source of the Severn River high up in the Welsh Mountains. It took us 5 hours - though we did a geocache and ate lunch at the top!

We parked the car at Hafren Forest car park by Llanidlloes. It was visitor friendly - except that the toilets were locked! It was lovely walking up and watching the Severn become smaller and smaller until we reached the little trickle at the top.

We knew we had reached the source because of this marker post - 2 sides in Welsh and 2 sides in English.

OMG how fat have I become!! The diet must start again very soon!!!

The walk was wonderful - just a steady climb along well made paths. There was a wonderful sense of achievement when we arrived at the actual source of the river, as it was so exciting to see the start of something which has such a major impact on our lives. Shrewsbury is surrounded by the river and I cross it many times a day, walk along it and when it floods, suffer the disruption that it brings.

At the top we sat and admired the views - gorgeous mountains surrounded us completely. Then we were treated to a fly by from this plane - it was so close to us as we were so high up!


After lunch and a geocache we headed back down the valley and into Llanidloes for another geocache which we could not find - so to cheer us up we headed towards a huge lake (Llyn Clywedog) created by the building of a dam. What a treat - the sun was just starting to go down so we were treated to the most glorious scenes of the lake - it took a long time to drive round as we kept stopping to take photos!




Just beautiful!

A perfect day.