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11th Apr 2025  13:25  by The Revenant

FB Number: 10351  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Top cracked & a corner chipped. Asphalt plug. Public. Natural Resources Wales. Located in Dyfnant Forest. Find the famous ‘welly-boot tree’ & you find this pillar, which is just above & behind it. Close to the property which lends the trig station its name. This is well signed from Hendre Dyfnant below. Good 2 hour walk up to there from the Cann Office at Llangadfan. Glyndwr’s Way is superbly signposted & waymarked. 113/114 SH pillars for me.

I’m too famous for my boots!
Showing the way
Tyddyn-Amlwg pillar

9th May 2024  00:00  by StewB

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

Second to last trig on the Lake Vyrnwy & Llanfyllin 239 OS map en-route to a six night stopover in Abergynolwyn in pursuit of Aberysthwyth trigs. Off-road parked just, part way onto the grass verge just over the bridge at Cwm Twrch GR 98810 13307. Following the track 'heading' North/North-West, 'taking' a right at the t-junction of tracks, at GR 99584 14760 signposted 68 'took' a left. 'Taking' another L at GR 998 150, proceeded onto GR 99363 16028 with decision made to 'head' off-track thro' the forest. Although only a short trek, it was a rough one, but before too long, ten minutes or so I located the 'welly bob tree' & behind it the trig. 'Stuck' with the track on return passing the point at which i'd prematurely left it & Etrexed back exactly the same way from then on...6.9 miles taking 2 hours & twenty minutes. Out at 06:00 to 'bag' this one, my second to last trig on the Lake Vyrnwy & Llanfyllin 239 OS map en-route to a five night stop-over in Abergynolwyn with intention Friday onwards to 'bag' as many trigs as possible about Aberystwyth.

16th Feb 2024  14:40  by gower lad

FB Number: 10351  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Drove up from village of Foel on single track roads which had fewer and fewer passing places and practiced my reversing skills. Don't go this way if your uncomfortable with reversing along narrow lanes. Eventually reaching entrance to plantation at Dol-y-gaseg. First obstacle, wading vehicle ford on river in flood. Then zig zag track up felled hillside and forestry track to pillar tucked in on right hand side. Incongruous piece of modern art, a "footwear tree", along side track below pillar. Exited on different route, FP down and through Pen-y-coed farm where all the farm dogs rushed out to greet me, maybe eight of them, all leaping round barking their heads off. They never tried to bite but all the same was glad to get out of there.

7th Feb 2023  11:47  by Izzy Watts

FB Number: 10351  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

8 mile loop from car park. Trig behind the Welly boot tree

26th Jun 2022  10:00  by Mickandkim

Gridref: SH 99000 15900   FB Number: 10351  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Drove in from the West and out to the East Wellyboot tree still there

25th Jul 2020  14:09  by Margaret Herbert

FB Number: 10351  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Hidden with forest. Located by a wellyboot statue in the path!

30th Nov 2019  12:33  by John DCC

Gridref: SH 99068 15952   FB Number: 10351  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Welly boot tree The trig point is situated behind the Welly boot tree

5th Aug 2019  10:30  by Robert Kemp

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

28th Jul 2018  10:40  by trigging on an island

FB Number: 10351  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Penultimate pillar on sheet 125 Bala and Lake Vyrnwy. Bonus point for all the scrummy bilberries surrounding the trig :).

23rd Oct 2016  15:09  by ProSpec

Gridref: SH 99066 15950   FB Number: S10951  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 7/10

Some cracking on the top.

23rd Jul 2016  17:27  by kat04

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

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18th Jul 2015  14:45  by stignest

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

actually drove to within 20ft of this one.. wouldnt recommend it in a sports car mind.. trees have been felled in front of this forestry trig giving some impression of the superb view that was once had here.. trig cap filled with asphalt. otherwise in fine if unpainted condition.

4th Jul 2014  14:28  by Peter Astle

Gridref: SH 99066 15950   FB Number: 10351  Condition: Good  Score: 3/10

Nothing to see but trees and rain.

16th May 2013  13:20  by Dusty

FB Number: 10351  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Walked from Pen-y-coed Farm to the south west. ROW from forest gate is overgrown but only a short distance to forest road.

Mrs Dusty & pillar
Spider
Flush Bracket
Mrs Dusty & Cerrig yr Helfa 600m to the south west An alignment of 7 stones of the Bronze Age. Also known as Bryn Bras.

14th May 2013  13:44  by Trigger

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

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25th Nov 2012  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: SH 99069 15954   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

15th Jul 2012  19:57  by ocean soul

FB Number: 10351  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Drove to pillar on dry and dusty roads which precipitated a washed car .. Pillar close to lay-by in small wooded patch … No views to speak of …

30th Oct 2011  10:45  by Clanfield Rambler

Gridref: SH 99067 15955   FB Number: 10351  Condition: Good  Score: 4/10

In conifer wood,asphalt plug. No views from the trig, but just off forestry track, where there are good views. Fairly easy to get to on tracks

20th Jul 2011  15:00  by AndyKeen

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Not Logged  Score: 5/10

26th Nov 2008  15:30  by Glaslyn

Gridref: SH 99060 15950   FB Number: 10351  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

This was another one that had been down for a visit for a while but not got around to it. I think there may be access for vehicles so as you can drive to,but decided I needed the exercise so cycled in from the NE,lanes give way to good forest tracks.There has been some clearing near the pillar which itself still stands surrounded by a few conifers. Thee are much harder forest ones to locate than this one,and it is easier than the map suggests.Pillar in good condition.the views are limited from the pillar itself,but good from back on the forrest roads.

©Glaslyn
©Glaslyn
©Glaslyn
View back towards the NE.©Glaslyn

25th May 2007  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: 10351  Condition: Slightly damaged  Score: 6/10

top chipped, asphalt plug, on steep heather knoll 10m S of forest road. Forest roads are good. Farmstead at SH971156 is a ruin.

10351 fb ©peregrinus
10351 top ©peregrinus
10351 trig ©peregrinus
10351 trig ©peregrinus

5th Oct 2004  15:00  by Lathama

FB Number: 10351  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Ah, ha! Another one of these Welsh trigs with the 5-digit numbers. This one has easy access off the road - in fact about 30 yards from a layby which is very convenient! It's all intact with the central plug and it looks as if the top has been repaired with a thin layer of concrete at some time which might explain the extra-deep lug-holes. There are some cracks across the top and a small chip out of the NW corner but nothing major. There is quite a lot of paint on the N and E faces. Good views to the south and south-west but otherwise, the forest blocks things out. The pillar is set in deep bracken/heather and you have to look carefully to find it!