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These woodlands are a beautiful area, home to the Marsh Fritillary and Pearl Bordered Fritillary Butterflies and it is hard to envisage that just twenty years previously, a coal mine existing close by.

Just to the southwest of this area is a beautiful riverside walk along the Ebbw Fach (right) which will take you into Abertillery Park, home to Abertillery RFC, one of the most famous in Wales. On Saturdays in the rugby season, it is possible to see the Green & Whites play.

A scheme is currently underway to create a new trail that will span the length of the Ebbw Fach river and work has already started on the riverside walk at Six Bells, a couple of miles further south, where close by the memorial to the 45 miners killed in the 1960 colliery disaster can be found. A new memorial will be opened on the former Six Be;lls Colliery site on 29th June 2010, the 50th anniversary of the disaster.

Other plans are afoot to establish more heritage trails in the locale including the Gelli Crug area.