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Hawks Wood Trail

Name: Hawks Wood Trail
Rating: 2

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Location: Clifford, West Midlands Region, England, United Kingdom

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1. Hay Castle – Hay-on-Wye loop from Hay on Wye

8.03km

02:18

180m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Hawks Wood Trail – Old Graveyard and Church loop from Hay on Wye

10.5km

02:58

210m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Hay Castle – Hay-on-Wye loop from Hay on Wye

14.8km

04:01

210m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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JEANETTE

July 23, 2020

Hay-on-Wye (Welsh: Y Gelli Gandryll or just Y Gelli), often abbreviated to just "Hay" (the community uses the short version) is a small market town and community in the historic county of Brecknockshire (Breconshire) in Wales, currently administered as part of the unitary authority of Powys.[2] With over twenty bookshops, it is often described as "the town of books", and is both the National Book Town of Wales and the site of the annual Hay Festival.

The settlement's name is first referred to between 1135 and 1147 as Haya; in 1299 the name of La Haye is used. By the 16th century it was simply called Hay, and the use of the river as a suffix is a later addition. In 1215, a Welsh name, Gelli was recorded, and Gelli gandrell in 1614; the two names may have been used concurrently in 1625. The English language name, Hay, is derived from Old English hæg, possibly meaning a "fenced area" and a noun used in late Saxon and Norman times for an enclosure in a forest. The Welsh word celli (lenited to Gelli) has a range of meanings including wooded areas of various extents.[3]

The population of the town in 1841 was 1,455.[4] This had grown to 1,680 by 1901. The Town's size has not changed much since, with 2018 estimates at 1900.

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Elevation 280 m

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Hawks Wood Trail

1. Hay Castle – Hay-on-Wye loop from Hay on Wye

2. Hawks Wood Trail – Old Graveyard and Church loop from Hay on Wye

3. Hay Castle – Hay-on-Wye loop from Hay on Wye

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