The Great Outdoors - UK (2021-08)

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Start

Strumble Head

car park/bus stop

GR: SM 895412

Follow Coast Path (CP) S to

Pwll Deri YH.

(^2) 
Detour from CP to climb
Garn Fawr: cross road
opposite YH drive, head up drive
to holiday cottages, then follow
Strumble Head to Trefin
Pembrokeshire WALES
19. 8 km/ 12. 3 miles/ 6 - 7 hours
Ascent. 600 m/ 1970 ft

PEMBROKESHIRE’S

exhilarating coast path has

many a splendid stretch, but

nowhere is the scenery quite

as wild and wonderful as

it is on rounding Strumble

Head from the east. For the

next few miles headingsouth

the views arespectacular:

an indented coastline of

precipitous cliffs, dramatic

headlands and secluded bays.

e bare Pen Caer peninsula

leading outto Strumble

Head is notablefor itsrocky

outcrops,in particular

Garn Fawr,crownedby an

Iron Age fort, with superb

views. With the exception

of Strumble Head itself –

popular with bird watchers

(and accessible by car) – this

is a quiet and lonely section

of coastline: an ideal choice

path that climbs directly to top

(trig point). Return same way.

Continue along CP eventually

descending to Aber Bach.

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Usually stream trickles
through pebble beach here
and is easy to cross. But if not,
i.e. after heavy rain, there’san
alternative inland route signed
along valley path via road bridge.
Or just remove footwear and
wade across!
(^4) 
Just W of Abercastle, short
detour to view Careg
Sampson is worthwhile. At Aber
DrawturnLuplanebacktoTrefin
(or as shortcut turn off CP as
signed just after Pwll Offa).

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Finish

Trefin bus stop

GR: SM 839325

Gradient profileMetres above sea level

Fiona Barltrop

revisits the

Pembrokeshire

Coast Path

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