Kilgetty - A walk through Woodland and countryside tracks – about 6 miles

Start at Kilgetty Tourist information Centre (TIC) just off the A 40 by Kilgetty roundabout - there is parking and a local bus stop at the car park.

1. From the TIC walk about 400 yards into the village, past the Co-op store and under the railway bridge. The road begins to rise then just as you go over the rise and start to descend, there is a footpath sign on your left (just before a road sign to Sardis).
2. Take this footpath (the miners walk) until you come to a cottage where you pass in front of the cottage to the right to a stile.
3. Over this stile then cross a meadow, following the edge of a wood to another stile, cross this into a coniferous wooded area.
4. Walk 100 yards to a way marked junction and take the left path uphill, climbing with a bank on your left for about 500 yards to a stile.
5. Cross this stile and carry on through the woods crossing a small brook and a stile. Walk about 200 yards to the edge of the wood and another stile.
6. Cross this and follow the left hand hedge to join a sunken track. Follow this track for about 900 yards to Penrath Farm.
7. Walk through the farmyard crossing two stiles close together then follow the right hand hedge for 200 yards to a stile.
8. Over this than along a short sleeper bridge to another stile, over this there are some breathtaking views of bracken covered hillsides.
9. Follow the left hand hedge downhill for 200 yards into a valley, cross a small stream then turn right walking uphill for some 200 yards to a way mark sign on your left.
10. Fork left here, uphill to a Farm cottage. Pass through a metal gate into the yard and then follow the track away from the cottage and after 500 yards through another farmyard. Keep following this farm track for until you meet the road by the railway bridge.
11. Turn right to go over the bridge and walk for about 800 yards to meet a main road.
12. Turn left for 100 yards to a way marked stile on your right. Cross this into a small field. Opposite, there are two sets of gates. Access to the left hand set is over a stile. Follow the right hand hedge until it ends. Then go ‘straight on’ across the sloping field to a stile on the far side.
13. Follow the left hand hedges of two small fields to reach Bramblehill Farm. At the farm, turn right following the farm track for 500 yards to meet a lane.
14. Cross the lane to a stile onto a path through immature woodland leading to a stile into a meadow. Over this stile and follow a path diagonally left to the bottom corner of the meadow. This path now leads into a wooded area beside a stream.
15. Follow this path for about 500 yards past the ruins of an old mill then 200 yards to a lane. Cross over the lane to a stile into another field.
16. Go over a sleeper bridge, straight over a field to a stile. Cross this stile straight across the next field to another stile. Cross this third field to another stile that leads into a sunken lane.
17. In the lane, turn right then immediately left onto a track flanked by banks and hedges. You are now on the bed of an old railway line for the next mile or so.
18. Follow this track, passing under high voltage power lines to a stile. Stay with this track for about a mile. You will pass four stiles on this track alongside farm gates (which may be open or closed).
19. After about a mile there is a way marked track off to the right through a tree covered lane. Follow this for about 900 yards, keeping ‘straight on’ until you meet a tarmac road on the outskirts of Begelly.
20. Turn left and walk straight on for 800 yards past The Begelly arms and the Kilgetty roundabout back to the TIC car park where you started.

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Walking around Pembrokeshire – Treffgarne Gorge

Start at Nant-y-Coy Mill on the A40 about 5 miles from Haverfordwest heading toward Fishguard. The mill is on the main road sells teas and has a gallery attached.

1. On the left of the mill there is a steepish lane with a sign CLUN-SELIN. Walk up the lane for 50 yards to a footpath sign on the left (by “END OF PUBLIC ROAD” sign).
2. Walk onto this footpath through bracken for 20 yards to where the path divides by a waymarker post.
3. Take the left path for 50 yards to the next waymarker post. (Here we turn left to take a short but worthwhile diversion to a viewing point looking across Treffgarne Gorge)
4. Walk along this track for 100yards to a large rock cairn where there are wonderful panoramic views through 360 degrees of the gorge and various outcrops and granite rock formations.
5. Retrace your steps to the last waymarker post then turn left.
6. Continue left for about 500 yards, through one metal gate. At the second metal gate enter a field.
7. Cross this field ahead towards a mobile phone mast.
8. At the mast, take the farm track to the right of the mast through Mount Pleasant Farm. Follow the concrete farm track. At the end of this, turn right for 300 yards to join a tarmac road into Treffgarne. At this junction there is a small chapel on your left.
9. Now walk downhill for 500 yards to meet the main A40. Turn right, crossing the bridge and on for 100 yards to a sign to Spittal, turn left toward Spittal.
10. You enter a disused railway tunnel and as soon as you exit this tunnel take the left hand fork along a wooded lane.
11. After 300 yards you reach a sign MILLBROOK (by a bridleway and footpath waymarker). Go left past this for 30 yards to another footpath waymarker post by a cottage.
12. Here, go right up a steepish track, over a stream and on for 300 yards. You reach the gates to Hazel Cottage where you turn left through a kissing gate.
13. After 50 yards you come to a waymarker post where you keep directly ahead on a path through woods for 300 yards to a stile.
14. Cross the stile into a conifer wood then over a small brook into mixed woodland for 300 yards till you come to a waymarker.
15. Go right at this waymarker for 30 yards to another waymarker post.
16. AT this waymarker post turn right steeply uphill for 200 yards to a T junction, here you turn left going slightly uphill for 150 yards to a stile then immediately a small stream.
17. Cross this and turn downhill through a grassy clearing for 50 yards to cross a dry stream bed then walk 20 yards uphill to a stile.
18. Cross this stile into a conifer plantation, keep ahead through conifer plantation into a dense conifer wood.
19. Walk 500 yards through this wood sloping downhill over a carpet of pine needles toward the railway line until you come to a stile.
20. Cross the stile then 50 yards to a bridge under the railway, then walk 75 yards to a footbridge over a river then uphill to re-join the A40 road.
21. Look left and you will see The Nant-y-Coy Mill clearly visible about 300 yards, the point at which you started this walk.

Walking in Pembrokeshire - Porthgain Harbour.

1. Commence at the car park in Porthgain by The Sloop Inn and walk downhill towards the small harbour.
2. Start the walk by leaving the harbour to the right by a round stone shelter and walk uphill (there is a coastal path way-marker sign here).
3. Walk 20yards to a stone cairn then follow the cliff edge, (admiring the steep granite cliffs) for 70 yards. Now cross the edge of two small fields and rejoin the coastal path for 200 yards steeply downhill to cross a small wooden bridge over a brook.
4. Then walk uphill along the coastal path for 300 yards to a kissing gate into a field – turn right to follow a stone wall to a field corner and a wooden stile.
5. Cross this stile and follow the fence on your right to a stone stile into a field (this field has a small circle of stones in it).
6. Follow the path downhill (clearly way-marked) and over a wooden stile then cross a stone stile into a lane.
7. Turn right and walk along the lane for 500 yards to cross a stile in the hedge on your right and into a field.
8. Cross this field diagonally to the left to a small wooden gate – go through the gate into another field and follow the left hand hedge to another small gate.
9. Go through this gate onto a farm track for 300 yards to the farm gate. Go through the farm gate and follow the track downhill to cross a small stream.
10. Cross the stream and go uphill for 50 yards to a small gate (there is a public footpath sign here) – go through the gate into a paddock – cross the paddock to a kissing gate and into a field.
11. Go into this field and follow the left hand edge to the bottom of the field to another kissing gate, then 20 yards to another small wooden gate to meet a stream.
12. Cross this by a wooden bridge then turn left along a track, which leads straight back to the car park where you started the walk.