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Cardiganshire Coast and Country

walk from Cardigan to Mwnt to Cardigan

Walk information

Map: Outdoor Leisure 35 North Pembrokeshire

Distance 10.5 miles

Approximate Time 4.5 hours

Description An excellent walk that offers the walker wonderful views of the Teifi Estuary and a chance to rest midway at the scenic National Trust property of Mwnt with its picturesque chapel hiding beneath a triangular hill. A possibility of seeing dolphins and seals in the waters around Mwnt.

Start The walk starts from Somerfield car park Cardigan. Grid reference SN 175 460 Click here for a location road map.



Images Ceibwr Bay looking south and the coastal path


1. Somerfield - With Somerfield on right go to end of car park & follow track, turn right uphill & straight ahead past some houses to waterworks. At works take path to left of gates & follow this to stile just before Old Castle Farm. After stile turn right up farm road, follow it to right & then left at T junction. At gate ahead, where track bears left
2. - At gate ahead, where track bears left, go through gate & follow waymarkers across 4 fields. When path dips downhill cross stile & follow filed edge to corner, turn right & go through field gate onto road & turn right.
3. - Go along road for 100m, looking carefully for gap in hedge & footpath sign. Turn left here to go in front of next house & then turn right up green lane. Follow this for 1/2 mile & bear right over stile & left up farm lane. Follow this track for about 500m & then turn right through gate just before next farm. Go across 4 fields keeping about 50m from trees on right. On seeing line of houses ahead go to right hand corner of field across stream & over stile.
4. Clos-y-Graig - Turn left in lane & left again in Verwig for 300m. Take the no through road. Follow this for 3/4 of a mile until road turns right & then before it turns left there is cattle grid ahead, cross this & follow farm track. On reaching farm buildings look for footpath sign directing you to left in front of large barn. Go through gate & down green lane towards sea. Follow this lane for 600m & at gate with lovely view of Mwnt go straight ahead & follow
path to cafe & beach. Now retrace your tracks for about 500m & just before reaching Clos-y-Graig farmhouse turn up towards and through gate.
5. Heol-Cwm - Follow this track, which becomes an unclassified road, for about 1.5 miles; 300m after Heol-Cwm turn left at junction & after 250m turn right through farm buildings to 4 gates. Go through second from left gate & follow green lane until it turns right. Take kissing gate on left & follow lane to house & turn right at road.
6. - Follow this road for nearly 3/4 of mile & then, when it turns sharp right, go across stile to right of gate ahead & down right hand side of 2 fields. turn right in filed corner & then left into rather muddy green lane. Follow this for nearly 500m. Turn right & then bear left down track past farmhouse. Pass chapel, go left uphill & follow this road for 450m until it bears left. Take track on right and follow this to junction of Felinban & Cnwc-y-Dintir. Turn left & go down edge of car park & then down road ahead back to start of walk.


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