2014 Road to Cad West

Laatste dag is de laatste mogelijkheid om vliegtuigen te zien. Nemen de weg van Dolgellau naar Fox Crosses en dan rechts naar Cad West (of East).

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Section 4: Cross Foxes – Gellilydan
At Cross Foxes Inn we meet one of the other major north-south routes – the A470. Once upon a time, it was the A487 that took priority through here; the other road was the A458 until the 1970s and the establishment of the A470 as the most important Welsh north-south route (taking on many other roads on its journey north). We pass the end of the A494 before eventually reaching the small town of Dolgellau. It has a bypass now, but as recently as the 1980s, the queues to get through here were horrendous. The streets were too narrow to cope with the traffic, and what is actually a pleasant town was marred by the volume of queuing traffic on the road. Today, the bypass runs on the track of the old railway, which allows it to be tucked in against the road network to the north and the River Wnion to the south. The old road passes overhead without a junction. There are two left turns here, each side of the River Mawddach. First, we meet up with the A493 which has come the “long way round” from Machynlleth via Tywyn and the Mawddach Estuary, and secondly the A496, which in itself a long way round, following the river’s north bank towards Barmouth and Harlech. The bridge over the Mawddach is a modern construction, and allows Llanelltyd to be bypassed.