Mostyn Hall provided a welcome respite for competitors, a chance to draw breath and perhaps meet the Three Castles Club President Lord Mostyn who was interested to see the cars and speak to their owners. 

The first Mostyn Hall test took cars down to the house along the sawmill access road, around a cone and down into the yard behind the old house. After coffee it was down again, under the bridge beneath the ornate iron gates and downhill to the coast.  At the end of the test the route turned south east past the sad remains of the Duke of Lancaster, the former British Railways ferry, beached at Mostyn Docks in 1979 after being decommissioned.  Leaving the River Dee behind, the rally headed south west through Brynford, where Henry Stanley (of Dr Livingstone fame) began as a teacher in the village school.  The third regularity began shortly after this, requiring a turn onto a minor road which, some nine miles later came to an end near the small airfield at Bryngwyn Bach.  Cars headed on to Rhuallt and the A55, heading west past St Asaph before turning south and the sanctuary of a B road  already travelled that morning in the opposite direction.

A short southerly diversion marked the beginning of regularity section 4, cutting across country in a westerly direction for around eleven miles.  The course brushed the Cambrian hills, making for more splendid views of the countryside showing off the Welsh countryside at its best with help from some very welcome sunshine. The section ended in Graig leaving a short link to join the A470, cross the River Conwy and drive south to Care Rhun Hall and the lunch halt.