Walking in The Breiddens

27th April, 2010

Whenever a hill walking trip appears on the school calendar you can guarantee that there will be six boys' names that immediately appear on the list. These are the stalwarts of the Sunday trips but our most recent excursion was made even more enjoyable by the fact that we were joined by many others, including several senior girls. The Breiddens are the hills that straddle the Welsh/English border that you can see from the A5 as you approach Packwood. There are three main summits - the most well known of which is Rodney's Pillar with the other two being Moel y Golfa and Middletown Hill and we set off on Sunday 25th April to scale the former and the latter.

The Walking Weather Gods were more than kind to us again and it was an excellent day with spectacular views from both summits. Bizarrely there was a football match being held at the top of Rodney's Pillar between two sides that had just completed a sponsored dribble to the top!

We walked through forests, bogs, pasture and open moorland, took a leisurely lunch on the site of an old iron-age fort on Middletown Hill and then wound our way back down to the minibus where we could rest our weary legs on the way back to school.