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bbc.co.uk/walesnature © 2010 wales nature&outdoors Weatherman Walking - Maenclochog 3 Approximate distance: 8 miles 2 4 5 6 1 N Start / End 0.62 miles W E S Reproduced by permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of HMSO. © Crown copyright and database right 2009.All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100019855 The Weatherman Walking maps are intended as a guide to the TV programme only. Routes and conditions may have changed since the programme was made. The BBC takes no responsibility for any accident or injury that may occur while following the route. Always wear appropriate clothing and footwear and check weather conditions before heading out. 1 bbc.co.uk/walesnature © 2010 wales nature&outdoors Weatherman Walking - Maenclochog Approximate distance: 8 miles A circular walk around the beautiful village of Maenclochog, taking in the Preseli Hills, home of the bluestones before grabbing a pint in Tafarn Sinc. 1. Woodland trail 4. Rosebush Slate Quarry The walk began and ended in the beautiful Two quarries were once worked here: village of Maenclochog in Pembrokeshire, Bellstone to the north and Rosebush to the West Wales. south. Derek’s guide through the Neolithic Each quarry had its own dressing floor and landscape was the local vicar, Becky Davies tramways. 2. Heading towards Foel Cwmcerwyn 5. Rosebush Village At 536m (1759 ft) Foel Cwmcerwyn is The village owes its origins to the large slate the highest point in the Preseli Hills and quarries and evidence of this still exists in the Pembrokeshire. form of the quarrymen’s housing known as ‘the terrace’. 3. The Golden Road 6. Tafarn Sinc This Neolithic track way dates back some The Preseli Hotel and Pleasure Gardens 5,000 years and crosses the length of the was built in 1876. The hotel gets its name Preseli Hills. from the corrugated zinc used in its construction, as ‘sinc’ is the Welsh word for It would have been part of a trading route zinc. between Wessex and Ireland - bringing gold from the Wicklow Hills. 2.

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