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.
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