Around Strumble Head

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"A walk in some of the wildest countryside of the Pembrokeshire coast."

Walk directions

Walk back up the road from the car park and cross a gate on the left on to the coast path. Pass above the bays of Pwll Bach and Pwlluog, then drop steeply to a footbridge behind the pebble beach of Porthsychan.

Follow the coast path waymarkers around Cnwc Degan and down to another bridge, where a couple of footpaths lead away from the coast. Continue along the coast, passing a cottage on the right and climbing and dropping several times, before you reach the obelisk at Carregwastad Point.

Follow the main path inland and turn right then bear left. Continue with this path, which is vague in places, up through the gorse to a wall, then turn right to walk the length of a field to a stile and go on to a good track. Take this through a succession of gates and around a left-hand bend.

Ignore a track to the right and continue up the cattle track, eventually bearing right into the farmyard where you follow a walkway past livestock pens before swinging left, after the buildings, to the road. Turn right and follow the road past a large house to a waymarked bridleway on the left. Pass Trenewydd and go through a gate on to a green lane. Follow this up to another gate and on to open ground.

Turn right here and follow the wall to yet another gate. This leads to a walled track which you follow to the road. Turn left and climb up to the car park beneath Garn Fawr. Turn right, on to a hedged track, and follow this up, through a gap in the wall, and over rocks to the trig point.

Climb down and follow the path to cross the saddle between this tor and the other, slightly lower, one to the south. From here, head west towards an even lower out-crop and pass it on the left. Continue on this clear path that leads down to a stile. Cross this and turn left, then right on to a drive that leads to the road.

Walk straight across and on to the coast path. Bear right past the youth hostel and cross a stile to drop down towards Ynys y Ddinas, the small island ahead. Navigation is easy as you follow the coast path north, over Porth Maenmelyn and up to a cairn.

Continue along the coast, towards the lighthouse, until you return to the car park.

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Additional information

Terrain - Coastal path, grassy, sometimes muddy tracks, rocky paths, many stiles

Landscape - Rugged headland, secluded caves and rocky tor

Dog friendliness - Care needed near cliff tops and livestock

Parking - Car parks by Strumble Head Lighthouse

Toilets en route - None on route

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About the walk

This is a wonderful stretch of the Pembrokeshire coast, although at times it feels like ‘coast path meets the Himalayas’, as the narrow ribbon of trail climbs and drops at regular intervals throughout. This is the real wild side of Pembrokeshire. The headland cliffs tower above the pounding...

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About the area

Wales meets the Atlantic Ocean in spectacular fashion at Pembrokeshire. Unlike the West Country, Pembrokeshire can offer the coast without the crowds, and quaint fishing villages without those huge coach parks.