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The National Wool Museum is a working museum housed in the former Cambrian Mills and is well worth a visit: it tells the whole story of how sheep have clothed the workers of Wales and the rest of the world. From the museum, take the footpath that runs parallel to the entrance, crossing a bridge over a stream, but where the track swings rightward towards a house, continue directly ahead through the middle one of three gates and onto a hedge-lined footpath that soon joins a lane. Turn right and follow the lane as it climbs gently for 100 metres, then go sharp left onto a rising footpath through woodland to reach a pedestrian gate in front of a house and here turn left along a track to reach the road on the outskirts of Waungilwen.

Cross onto a track on the opposite side of the road and where this forks by Dandinas Farm, keep right, passing low outbuildings and on through quiet woodland with Nant Brân for company to the left. The track passes the ruins of Pant-y-barcud on the left.

Pant-y-barcud is a typical example of what happened to almost all of the 50 or so mills that operated in this area at the end of the Second World War. As the need for clothes and blankets by the troops dried up, so did the orders from the War Office. The mills closed, the machinery was stripped out and sold for scrap and the buildings began to fall into decay.