Our next walk was along Offa's Dyke (an Anglo Saxon word for an earth bank), dividing Wales from England constructed by King Offa in the 8th century. The walk started just north of Chepstow and there was a brief glimpse of Chepstow Castle across a building site. Then along a walled path leading to a meadow. At the top of the hill is an old watch tower, built to look across the Wye into Wales and over the hills back into England.
The walk should have then continued through the Lancaut Nature Reserve to the church of St James. however just through the gate was a sign warning of a serious landslip and danger for walking on scree and mud. We turned back and took the right hand fork along Offa's Way again until we crossed a main road. At this point we decided to return the way we had come and then attempt to reach St James church another day from the northern end of the reserve.
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