This is a substantial walk with a few moderate climbs, across farmland and following very quiet country lanes.

Leave the town square by the south east corner (i.e. the same side of the square as the Castle Inn) and proceed along Four Ash Street. Pass the former Greyhound Inn (now a house) and continue on Chepstow Road. Turn right at the Olway Inn Hotel. Continue along the lane, crossing above the dual carriageway. Turn left at the crossroads, where the Flood Route is signposted.
(A 2 mile extension to this itinerary can be made but it involves a long steep climb and a track which can be very boggy at times - see text-only file (Walk 10c) which includes this extension.)

After 5 minutes you will see St David's Church on the left. Shortly after passing a house called 'The Yews' on the right, cross a narrow wooden footbridge on the left at a bend.

Turn right and head for the corner of the field diagonally opposite. Cross the stream by a wooden bridge and turn left on a lane.

St David's Church, Llangeview

Turn right on the busy B4235, the Usk - Chepstow road, and continue for 5 minutes. Shortly after passing The Lodge by Cefn Tilla (formerly Llangeview Lodge and before that the Rat Trap), go through a small wooden gate on the left and head half right across the field to a wide crossing over a brook to the left of a tree. Head half right for the more distant, large tree and the far corner of the field, where there is a road bridge over the dual carriageway. Go through the tunnel (with metal gates at each end) under the minor road and follow the field edge with the Olway Brook on the left. Go through a tiny metal gate into the South Wales Gliding Club's field. Take extreme care when there is gliding activity in progress. (See a photo of the Club's Pawnee tug (tow plane).)

The Raglan Arms, Llandenny

Keep to the left edge of the field, still alongside the brook. Turn left where there is a wide opening and a yellow notice about the danger from aircraft, and go through 2 metal gates close together. Head slightly left to the far corner of the field.

Go through the metal gate, immediately cross the brook and follow the track to the right which crosses the dual carriageway and leads to the village of Llandenny. Turn left on the road at the Raglan Arms; sadly this pub restaurant is now closed.

Keep straight on at the next junction, signposted Cold Harbour, and after about half a mile, just before the crossroads turn left into Kitty's Orchard (Gwent Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve). Follow the path to a kissing gate and then keep to the left side of the field. At a wooden gate near the third large tree, turn right and head for a kissing gate in front of a white house. Turn right on the lane and, shortly after, left at a T-junction.

Llandenny
(See a photo taken in the opposite direction.)

Near the area called Llandenny Walks

After about a mile, at the junction near a green gravel bin, go straight uphill. At the top of the hill cross a stile on the left.

(If, instead of turning left, you take the road to the right at this point, you will soon come to the Hall Inn. A good choice of meals can be had here. Return to the stile by the Give Way sign if you make this detour.)

Turn right, cross the field and cross a stile to the left of a tree. Head for a large tree with a double trunk. Continue in the same direction, heading for a distant red brick farmhouse. Go downhill and through a wide, deeply rutted gap in the line of trees. Head for the red brick house and cross a stile by a large tree to the left of the house. Turn right on the lane, eventually passing the allotments. Turn left on the road and follow it back to Usk centre.