There is room to park on the very narrow road between the Old
Grouse and the road junction to Llanelly church.
The Old Grouse was originally an Inn built by the Duke of
Beaufort in the last century as an ale and cider house for the
workers of the tram road higher up on Mynydd Llangattock.
The ‘Lonely Shepherd’ or ‘Bugail Unig’ in Welsh is an
interesting limestone pillar situated above the Clydach Gorge.
According to local legend, a farmer at Ty-lsaf farm was so cruel to
his wife that she threw herself into the river Usk and drowned. For
his sin, the man was turned into a pillar of stone, but every year
on Midsummer's Eve (June 20th), he goes down to the banks of the
Usk to search for his wife, calling her name - in vain. By next
morning he has always returned to his lonely place. It was the
custom in times gone by to white-wash the stone so that it could
easily be seen when it walked on Midsummer's Eve.
On a clear day the peaks of The Blorenge, the Sugar Loaf and
Ysgyryd Fawr are in view, amongst many others (but these ones also
have caches). 