Walk 13

How to get there: Abereiddy - Blue Lagoon Public transport: Strumble Shuttle (wheelchair accessible). Adventure walk: 0.4 miles (0.7 km) . Own transport: Northwest Pembrokeshire; 5 miles north Character: path surface variable, steep sections, great East of the city of St Davids. Approach via A487 road. coastal views, remains of slate quarry and workers’ cottages.

Grid ref. starting point: SM797313.

Toilets: seasonal, not wheelchair accessible. Nearest accessible toilets at Porthgain (about 3 miles).

Please note: take care near cliff edges and on steep slopes.

Parc Cenedlaethol Arfordir Penfro Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Walk 13

Description compacted slate rubble The Blue Lagoon is one of the gradient varies from 1:9 to surface at a 1:14 gradient to a best examples in 1:11 with seven landings and There is an informal parking platform viewing area. Pembrokeshire of a ‘sea two passing places. area above the beach, which quarry’. Formed when the sea has a natural, uneven surface. The abandoned quarry floods old quarry workings, From the bench the path The first 87metres of this walk workers’ cottages are a 'sea quarries' are a feature of gradually becomes level, is on a reasonably level reminder of a time when this area. The lagoon has passing through a gate with compacted stone surface. The Abereiddy was a hive of been used as a harbour for trombone handle which opens second part runs along a activity. Slate was quarried fishing boats in the past. towards the coast. The path specially made concrete path here in the nineteenth century, Following severe storms in continues to a crest with a climbing steadily uphill with but the quarry was 2014, coastal erosion has short ascent of 1:14 where slopes of up to 1:9 in places. abandoned in 1901. reshaped this beach with the the concrete surface ends. On this section there are seven Flooding in the thirties shoreline retreating and a landings and two passing eventually forced people to stream channel having opened The path now descends places. The last part for 70 move elsewhere. up across the beachhead. towards the disused quarries metres is downhill on a on an uneven surface of The remains of Abereiddy compacted and loose slate for quarry are owned by the 70 metres with a general National Trust. gradient of 1:14 to a level platform and viewing area.

Directions The viewing area has unguarded cliff edges. (Please Leave parking area and follow note that the footbridge to a wide, compacted stone path second platform is not suitable with an uneven surface to for wheelchair access due to footbridge over stream the steep, unguarded ramps (footbridge is 1 metre wide). either side of the bridge). Continue along compacted stone path to the end of ruined terrace of cottages. Follow the concrete path uphill. The first 100 metres in

Abereiddy - Blue Lagoon KEY

Hard and smooth surface

Compacted stone surface

Public path Gradient, steeper than 1:12 Gradient, between 1:20 & 1:12