Walking the Pembrokeshire Coast Path – Angle to Pembroke

We were glad to get away from home for another day’s walking as the field opposite the house is full of mournfully bleating ewes who have just been separated from their lambs – the noise is incessant! So yesterday we drove down to Pembroke and caught the lunchtime bus to Angle.

We’d never walked this section, eastward along the southern side of the Haven, and as there is a major oil refinery and power station, I had assumed it would be mostly an industrial landscape. I was surprised and pleased to find lovely paths and quiet roads along the foreshore, ferny woods with glimpses of the water, and tracks across fields with cattle, sheep and ponies too drowsy in the heat to show much interest in us.

For a couple of miles we were accompanied by the roar of flare stacks burning off excess gas; this was unpleasantly loud and the air was tainted with oil, so not a place to linger. Apart from that, the only negative was lots of biting flies throughout the walk, undeterred (I suspect attracted) by insect repellant, which have left their mark on me.

We could see Pembroke Castle in the distance from many points during the walk, and were glad to reach it just before 7pm, after 11.9 miles. Perfect timing for another pub supper on a terrace overlooking the Mill Pond.