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MOEL FAMAU & THE CLWYDIAN HILLS

“…what sticks in your mind, after a day on this range, is not the quality of the hills themselves (though these are not negligible) as that of the short, steep-sided bracken-clad cwms which dive into the ridge every half mile along its western front. I have not seen anything just like them; a friend tells me he has seen the like in the Quantocks. Their brevity is half their beauty … the other half is their solid simple colouring. This is the bracken hill at its best.”

Patrick Monkhouse, On Foot in North Wales (1934)

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