Updates

It is inevitable that on a long-distance route such as the Dee Way, details will change over time. You can help fellow walkers by letting us know of any modifications to the route, which we can initially publish on this web site and then incorporate into future editions.
Please email any such information to:
kittiwake@btconnect.com
or you can write to:
The Dee Way
3 Glantwymyn Village Workshops, Glantwymyn,
Machynlleth SY20 8LY

Date Section Update
04/08/201037Endeavoured to walk the final section of the Dee Way to the source on Sunday 1st August 2010. The route is fine up to SH840270 where the Dee Way/logging road parts from the way-marked path.
04/08/201037Here the Forestry Commission have put a "No entry to unauthorised personnel" sign on the Dee Way/logging road whilst they quarry and crush stones for road making a little further along the way. No diversion has been posted. However, there
04/08/201037Further along the Dee Way/logging road where it crosses over the ford at SH834269, the area of cleared forest to the left, mentioned in David Berry's text, has grown somewhat over the last few months, and has made walking along the river bank here ve
04/08/201037However, if you keep on the main track of the logging road it eventually brings you out quite close to the forest edge near the source(s) of the river. You can see the young river valley and Dduallt when you reach the current end of the surfaced part
28/09/20090Long distance linear walking is now no longer a problem with a book like this and I wish you well. Peter Brown
28/09/20090Meanwhile I now intend to walk the Prestatyn to Hoylake sections and, because this book is so good, then do the alternate routes suggested.
28/09/20090To this end I edged around the nearby forest and with good fortune joined the logging path back to the previous point on the route.
28/09/20090Having located the source I decided to keep high above the river rather than return along the same route which had proved to be very boggy following many days of rain.
28/09/20090David Berry has obviously walked the Dee Way and I had every confidence in his instructions, especially the last three miles when the river was getting smaller and smaller and smaller.
28/09/20090The routes were very interesting and varied and the information proved accurate and informative.
28/09/20090I suppose an easier option would be to drive to the start and bus back to the car on completion.
28/09/20090Interestingly the bike ride routes were shorter than the walking routes hence extra energy expenditure was minimal.
28/09/20090Then I rode the bike to the day's starting point and walked the route back to the car, drove the car back to collect the bike and returned home.
28/09/20090Sometimes I put the bike on the back of the car and drove to the day's finishing point.
28/09/20090This is the first time I have used buses but they are so plentiful in the area covered, and so well identified in the text that I gave it a go and it worked well.
28/09/20090I used a combination of car, bicycle and bus to locate myself for a series of day walks throuhout the summer.
28/09/20090For your information I have just completed the sections from Chester to the river's source.
28/09/20090As a long term fan of Kittiwake walking books may I congratulate you for producing The Dee Way which I think is superb.