ales 04 to , Ramblers Routes DISTANCE 20.5KM/13 MILES ASCENT 631M/2,070FT TIME 6 HOURS TYPE COAST

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Plan your walk 4 2 WHERE Linear walk from 3 Penally to Lamphey. START Penally train station/car park (SS118991). END Lamphey village hall car This linear walk follows the coast – brings you out at the cli scenery to enjoy, before rounding park (SN016005) or train station. a highly scenic but not too southern end of South Beach, a vast (at Priest’s Nose to reach Bay TERRAIN Cli -top coastal path low tide) sandy beach that stretches (note the Neolithic burial chamber, and quiet country lane. strenuous stretch of the to in the north. Route-fi nding King’s Quoit), with the impressive MAPS OS Explorer OL36; south Pembrokeshire Coast is straightforward from here as you castle clearly visible. The 12th-century Landranger 158. Path, with regular bus and follow the well-signed Pembrokeshire scholar Gerald of was born Coast Path (national trail). This takes here and described the village as GETTING THERE Trains every train services linking each two hours from Lamphey to you up to Giltar Point, just o shore ‘the pleasantest spot in Wales’. Penally, fewer on Sundays; end. Along the way, there’s of which is , home to hourly bus service 349 from the well-preserved Norman Cistercian monks, and adjoining 3 The fi nal stretch of coastline St Margaret’s Island. Heading west takes you past lovely Swanlake Lamphey to Penally, not Sundays castle at Manorbier and at (Traveline: 0871 200 2233). along the grassy cli -top, you soon Bay and along the top of West pass an interesting information panel Moor Cli towards the large bay at EATING & DRINKING the end the impressive Freshwater Inn, remains of Lamphey about the First World War practice Freshwater East. There’s a fi ne view trenches here. The path continues over the bay as you reach a gate with (01646 672828); Dial Inn, Bishop’s Palace Lamphey (01646 672426). along the top of the limestone cli s, a path junction just beyond. ROUTE BY then descends to , SLEEPING Dial Inn (as above); where you can walk along the beach Leave the Coast Path and turn Two Hoots Cottage, near FIONA BARLTROP 4 Lamphey (01746 712104, to the slipway when the tide allows. R up a path that becomes paved twohootscottages.co.uk); 1 START It’s best to take the and leads to a car park. Turn L along Lamphey Hall Hotel (01646 train or bus to the start and 2 Continue up the road away the road, then R along Chapel Lane, 672394, lampheyhall.co.uk). walk back (the former takes just 14 from the beach. The Coast heading north. Cross the A4139 and minutes, the latter half an hour). Path, which turns L at the top, misses continue along a footpath that crosses VISITOR INFORMATION Turn R out of out Lydstep Point, but it’s worth the the railway. Turning L at the road takes Tenby TIC (01437 775603, visitpembrokeshire.com). car park and follow the path to the detour. There’s some striking cli you back to the village hall car park coast. (Note: there is a fi ring range scenery as you approach Skrinkle (railway station beyond). To visit the Walking the GUIDEBOOK here, which sometimes closes the Haven. Beyond here, carboniferous bishop’s palace (free), cross the road coast path via Giltar Point; in which limestone gives way to old red and continue down the path, then back by Dennis and Jan Kelsall case, there is a signed alternative, sandstone, as you’ll see from the up the access road and L to the car park. (Cicerone Press, £16.95, ISBN 978 1852848156). marked on the OS map, along the other side of Old Castle Head. The road from Penally, joining the coast headland is occupied by Manorbier’s eort a at roe LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP west of Giltar Point.) The path – air defence range, which prevents ia te atatc a or at Pembrokeshire (ramblers.org. which has been slightly diverted, as access to the coast here. But you’re ramblers.org.uk/atatc uk/pembrokeshire). ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPPING © CROWN COPYRIGHT, CREATED WITH MEMORY-MAP. MEDIA LICENCE 037/17. PHOTO: FIONA BARLTROP FIONA BARLTROP PHOTO: MEDIA LICENCE 037/17. WITH MEMORY-MAP. CREATED COPYRIGHT, MAPPING © CROWN ORDNANCE SURVEY clearly waymarked, before you reach soon back by the coast, with more

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