Walking in Pembrokeshire - Pleasant Valley

1. Walking in Pembrokeshire – Pleasant Valley

2. This, as the name suggests is a lovely walk along the Coastal footpath, then through sunken lanes, farm tracks and thick woodland alongside bubbling brooks.

3. Start at the Public car park in Amroth. Leave the car park and walk toward the sea onto the sea front.

4. Turn right and walk about 200 yards until you see a public toilet block. Pass to the right onto the start of the Pembrokeshire Coastal footpath, climbing steeply up through woods to a stile and over this into a field with views the overlooking Amroth.

5. Walk the full length of this field 500 yards, admiring sea views to your left to a stile. Over this and into a lane. Follow this downhill toward Wiseman’s Bridge, through a gate on the track into a built up area and meeting a main road.

6. Turn Left and walk down hill on the road for 500 yards, past Wiseman’s Bridge Inn as far as Wiseman’s Bridge (a very small bridge). Just over this bridge, turn sharp right onto a track beside a stream and into the woods of Pleasant Valley.

7. After 200 yards you join a lane and turn right for 50 yards to ‘Tramways Cottage’. Pass in front of this and continue straight ahead through the woods for about 900 yards, crossing over a stream and quickly meeting another road.

8. Turn left past the former Ironworks building and just past this on your right is the entrance to Mill House Caravan Park.

9. Walk into the park, and then straight ahead through the caravans to the far hedge and a fence, this fence leads to a stile into a field. Over the stile and walk at 45 degrees to the right through a narrow rough field and a steep bank.

10. Climb the wooden steps up the bank to a road at the top and then turn left, walking for 100 yards to a T-junction with a small island in the middle. Turn right for 50 yards then right again onto a public footpath, over a stile to climb a steep slope through scrubland for 200 yards to a stile into a field.

11. Over the stile and veer left at 45 degrees following the left hand hedge to a stile in the top corner of the field. Over this into a sunken track for 20 yards, turn right along a farm track for 50 yards then at the footpath sign go straight ahead rejoining the sunken track for 400 yards, passing a CWMRATH farm on the left onto the farm track for 100 yards to meet a main road.

12. Turn right, than after 20 yards turn left along a bridleway into a sunken lane, down widely spaced steps and rugged flagstones. Follow signs to Colby House, then cross a small stone footbridge and on passing Colby House on your right.

13. About 100 yards past the house, turn right following the public footpath through Colby woodland gardens with a valley and stream on your right.

14. Follow this for 800 yards to meet houses at Amroth, and onto a tarmac lane.

15. Walk downhill for 100 yards to the car park where you commenced the walk.

16. Walked March 2006

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