Coast walk - Abercastle to Abereiddi

8 miles of the Pembrokeshire coast path, with big views in all directions.

Includes Porthgain,a prosperous industrial harbour in the early 1900s. At one time, the harbour exported slate from quarries a few miles south at Abereiddi, Trwynllwyd and Porthgain quarry works itself. 

Abereiddi and the quarries to the South were linked by a tramway, the Porthgain Railway. Water-powered mills at Porthgain sawed the quarried slate slabs before shipment.

At Abereiddi, The Blue Lagoon was created when the wall of an old slate mine was blasted to let the sea in.

Strumble Head and Garn Fawr

Strumble Head (Welsh: Pen Caer,Trwyn-câr, Pen Strwmbl) is a rocky headland in the community of Pencaer in Pembrokeshire, Wales, within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. It marks the southern limit of Cardigan Bay. Three islands lie off the head: Ynys Meicel – 112 feet (34 m) – Ynys Onnen and Carreg Onnen.

Garn Fawr is the high point on this stretch of coast, its old Ordnance Survey trig point standing at 213m (699 feet) above sea level. This is the site of an Iron Age fort.