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Go left again, crossing the Afon Teifi via the footpath on the right hand side of the road bridge, which has stood here since the Civil War. The original bridge here was destroyed by Royalists trying to protect the town from being attacked by a force of Cromwell’s Roundheads. Set across the river to the right are a series of slalom poles used by the local canoeing centre.

On the far side of the bridge, bear left alongside the first building on the left, currently a canoe hire shop, and walk through its car parking area before bearing slightly right on an initially surfaced footpath that runs to the right of an artificial pond, used by the canoe school for teaching purposes. The path soon becomes un-surfaced and is squeezed in between the river on the left and a fence on the right, before reaching a stile leading into a sloping field. Walk up through this to reach a quiet lane and follow this to the left, passing the entrance to Dol-llan Farm before climbing fairly steeply through attractive parkland that forms part of the Dol-llan estate and with improving views along the Teifi Valley. Pass Farmyard on the brow of the hill, once the estate farm to Dol-llan House during the 19th century but now a garden centre, before following the lane round to the right, now with magnificent views to the east along the Teifi Valley.