triangleleft and there, local law enforcers That wasn’t the end of the story, the Roses, but his luck appeared and prayed, and eventually
set a trap for Kynaston, removing though, for his devilish black to have run out when he was reduced the ghost from a bull to
the wooden slats across the bridge. steed lived on to terrorise people beheaded at the Battle of the size of a fly and caught it in
But anticipating their plan, Sir in Nesscliffe Woods. So if you Banbury in 1469, upon which a snuff box. This was then
Humphrey instructed his horse should feel a hot breath on the his faithful black hound galloped buried under a huge stone slab
to jump, and together they back of your neck, or hear across the battlefield, picked up at the bottom of a lake in the
cleared the river and escaped. thundering hooves while walking his head and ran all the way grounds of Hergest Court.
Today there’s a 40ft-wide section through the trees, clutch your home to Hergest Court. However, some locals believe
of the Severn known as wallet or purse tightly, for Black Vaughan’s headless Black Vaughan lives on through
Kynaston’s Leap. Beelzebub may be after you! body was buried in the family the ghost of his faithful black
Sir Humphrey had no special vault at St Mary’s Church, dog, which has been seen
powers when it came to looking Hell hound on the trail Kington, but his ghost regularly wandering along the road
after his money, however. When Further south, Herefordshire’s reappeared in the shape of a between Hergest Court and
he inherited Myddle Castle (of Black Vaughan was another bull, which would terrorise the Kington. Indeed, it could be that
which little remains today but a character who tormented people locals, particularly on market the very same hound has been
single, crumbling tower), he in real life – and whose reign of day when it would send stalls haunting readers for the past
couldn’t keep up the costs of terror continues to this day. and goods flying. So bad was his century: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
maintaining it. Outlawed for his Lord Thomas Vaughan lived effect on the Kington economy had connections nearby and
debts, he eventually found at Hergest Court, just outside of that no fewer than 12 priests used to stay at the Baskerville
refuge in a cave in Nesscliffe Kington. Ever unscrupulous, he were called in to exorcise the Hall Hotel near Hay-on-Wye a
Hill, where he died in 1534. switched sides during the War of place. Together they chanted few miles away. Was Black
Haunting hike 1: The Precipice Trail, near Dolgellau 3 miles, moderate
OS Map OL18 – Harlech, ladder stiles. The track bears round to another wall as the path follows the left, passes over another wall and
Porthmadog & Bala the left, and then, where signed, fork contour around Foel Cynwch and turns left to cross another ladder
right along a stone wall to start the better views open up across the stile, before dropping towards the
Although there are no sheer rock circular walk. Mawddach Valley below, stretching shores of Llyn Cynwch. At the
faces to contend with, those nervous Take care crossing the numerous westwards towards the Irish Sea at junction with a wide track, turn left
of heights should probably avoid this stiles over stone walls. Turn sharp Barmouth bay. Continue to follow to follow this path alongside the lake
route. Some sections are only wide right and continue to follow the path the path around to the left, and soon and woodland section, returning to
enough for single-file walking, and over the stone wall, and then meander good views open up across Dolgellau the junction where the circular walk
so may not be suitable for young around to the left to see great views to Cadair Idris (at 2,930ft, the 20th started. Fork gently right along the
families. Please note this is not a stretching across the King’s Forest highest mountain in Wales). The path path walked earlier, to return to
right of way, but a permissive route. (Coed y Brenin). Continue over continues to wander around to the the car park.
From the Snowdonia National Park
car park at Saith Groesffordd (grid
KEY Road
ref: SH745211) return to the lane
and turn left a short distance before
Lake Route
turning left again on to a signed
Trees Direction
track between the trees. Follow this
Stile Building
path, turning right and eventually
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Contour Spooky map
passing a farmhouse, crossing two
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points of
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of Interest
1. Druids threw human sacrifices
Car Start/
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over the cliffs here to appease LLYN
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their pagan gods
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2. Don’t go in the water! You might
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slip into the fairy underworld,
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3. The dragon from Llyn Cynwch was
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slain by a shepherd and buried
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high in the hill
4. Look across to the haunting
summit of Cadair Idris – but
Minor road a77
don’t think of spending the night
to Dolgellau
up there!
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