Marloes Peninsular walk
Day 2 - Dale - St Anns Head - Dale

Dawn over Dale Roads

Walk past Dale Yacht Club/Moorings Restaurant and on up the hill (signposted "No Through Road"). Pass Point House and after 350 yards turn right onto a footpath following the Coast Path sign). Over a stone stile, cross a wooden footbridge, over another stile and follow the field edge round to the next stile.

Pass a pool (on the right), cross another stile and follow the cliff path round to the base of a signal tower/beacon light at Watwick Point. Go over two cattle grids/stiles and round the cliff top above Watwick Bay (sandy beach). About 200 yards after the second cattle grid fork left over a stile, following the Coast Path sign.

Just past the next Coast Path sign a path forks left to go down to the beach, so take the right fork to continue on the Coast Path. Cross two stiles and head towards the coastguard tower (plus 3 beacon towers) at West Blockhouse Point. The path goes past the base of the third of three signal/beacon towers.

Over a stile, then another stile into a field and along the field edge to another stile. Go down the hill, over a stile and over a footbridge crossing two streams. You are now at Mill Bay, where Henry Tudor landed on 7th August 1485 on his way to defeat Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth and to become King Henry VII. His fleet of 55 ships docked at Dale. Go up the hill and pass a memorial stone recording the historic events of 1482. Cross a stile through a wall near some buildings and walk between a wall and a wire fence towards a gate. Follow the same line across the grass to a fence behind a row of white houses. Turn right and follow the fence round to a gate. Turn right and walk along a metalled road past holiday cottages. At the end of the St Anns Head complex of buildings turn left through a gate back onto the Coast Path proper. The island of Skokholm now comes into view and shortly you will also see Skomer, closer to the shore and to the right.

Go through a gate into the National Trust reserve of Kete (a footpath on the right leads to the NT car park). In clear conditions it will now be possible to see the hump of Grassholm Island appearing from behind Skokholm (to the right). Another stile/footpath to the right leads to the NT car park and confirms that you are approaching Short Point. Go through a gate, past the rocky headland of Long Point. Pass a National Trust sign marking the end of their Kete reserve. You should now be able to see Gateholm Island close to the mainland in front of Skomer.

PUBLISHED MAPS

Ordnance Survey - 1:50 000 - St David's & Haverfordwest - 157
Ordnance Survey - 1: 25 000 - South Pembrokeshire - OL36

Day 3

Dale to Marloes. Distance approx 7 1/2 miles. Click here

Cross a stile and walk along a field edge. At this point a glance to the right will reveal the bay/inlet at Dale Roads (from where you started the walk). Cross two stiles, passing the small headlands of Iron Point and Great Castle Point. The next stile brings you to an overlook down to the sandy beach of Westdale Bay. (If following the 3-day peninsular walk continue ahead from this point. See day 3.)