Walk 1

How to get there: Amroth - Colby Lodge

Public transport: Service bus 351 (Tenby – Pendine), not Adventure walk: 1.7 miles (2.8 km) . wheelchair accessible. Character: Beautiful, wooded valley, mostly on wide tracks, Own transport: South Pembrokeshire; 2.5 miles north east slopes up and down. of the village of Saundersfoot. Approach via the A477 trunk road. No parking fee.

Grid ref. starting point: SN162070.

Please note: Colby Woodland Garden is owned by the National Trust. If visiting the garden, away from this walk, please pay entrance fee at reception.

When visiting the garden, this walk can be done from the Colby Woodland Garden bus stop or car park.

Bus 351 stops outside the entrance to the car park.

To reach this car park by own transport: approach as above and follow brown signs to Colby Woodland Garden. Parc Cenedlaethol Arfordir Penfro Grid ref. Garden car park: SN157080 Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Walk 1

Description Directions follow track across footbridge (1 metre wide). At crossing of The first part of the walk – From bus stop: walk up road paths, bear left onto surfaced from Amroth to the start of opposite bus stop. track between wood and the woodland – goes uphill From car park: leave car park meadow below. Stay on this steadily. The last part of the using road, ignore cul-de-sac, track. There are two steep walk follows the same route and turn left onto road uphill. sections: the first 1:10 for 4 downhill. Most of the rest of metres, the second up to 1:8 the walk is on paths which The first 16 metres are 1:8 for 50 metres leading to gate. rise and fall more gently. uphill. Where road forks at Upper Mead house take left- After gate turn left onto a The walk follows public paths hand lane (1:8 for 17 metres) path, which is uneven, for 40 through Colby Woodland and walk past houses into metres, with a gradient of up Garden, a National Trust wood. Follow wide track, at to 1:7 for 40 metres. Follow property. It boasts one of the T-junction (1:7 for 12 metres) path and fork left to best collections of bear left and at fork take fingerpost at bridge over rhododendrons and azaleas in right-hand track. There are 2 stream. Wales, with bluebells and short steep sections of 1:8 daffodils in spring, hydrangeas and 1:7 for 3 metres each. At fingerpost turn right over in summer and wonderful bridge (up to 1:8 for 3 metres) autumn colours. Please stay Go through gate (often open) and at next fingerpost bear on the described route, as an and straight ahead. On right. Follow track and when entrance fee is payable to passing the entrance to reaching road, bear right onto non-members of the National meadow on left there is a road. Trust for visiting the garden. cross gradient of 1:18 for 4 The Garden is open from metres. Just before reaching For bus stop: continue straight spring to autumn. the buildings of Colby Lodge ahead. there is 2 metre section of For car park: turn right into The walk passes the Garden’s 1:10. Stay on the wide track car park. tearoom, which is open to all between the buildings, then at (access via ramp) from spring road, turn left (1:8 for 5 m). to autumn. Turn left at fingerpost and

Amroth - Colby Lodge KEY Hard and smooth surface Compacted stone surface Loose gravel surface Public path Gradient, steeper than 1:12 Gradient, between 1:20 & 1:12 Cross gradient