This guide provides a 150 mile adventure into the mysterious and wonderful landscapes of Wales and the west. Start at either end or at any point in-between, there are fully detailed step by step directions both ways. Here are gentle grassy slopes, ragged hedges on bare hills, watery plains, rolling grass moors, deep, steep, woody valleys, silent forests, silvery rivers, lakes and tumbling streams.

From historic Gas Street Basin in central Birmingham the walk follows quiet, green canals through the Black Country to Stourbridge. Many people will start from here to head for Kinver and cross rural Shropshire via Cleobury Mortimer, then the high point of Titterstone Clee to Ludlow. The walk strides on through that remote and gentle border country to enter Wales at Knighton. From here follows 25 miles of wilder hills and tiny villages leading to Rhaeadr. After the Elan Valley Reservoirs you cross miles of desolate moorland to Devil's Bridge. Here you have the option of walking the last 15 miles or taking the narrow gauge steam railway to Aberystwyth.

All the practical information you will need for planning is included, together with background information on the places visited.