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Mynydd Preseli

Duration: 3 hours
Length: 5.6m, 8.96km
How to get there: Service bus Mynachlog Ddu
Grid ref: SN105325

Take inthe sights of the famous Preseli Hills

Look out for: Carn Menyn source of spotted dolerite/bluestones, Bedd Arthur Burial Chamber

Composed of hard Ordovician shale and mudstone compressed into slates with scattered fragments of rhyolite and dolerite - the famous bluestone that forms the inner ring of Stonehenge - the Preseli Hills are the highest hills in Pembroke.

The crag of Carn Menyn is the source of the Stonehenge pillars and nearby Bedd Arthur is the Preseli's own, rather unusual, eye-shaped stone circle. There's a memorial to Welsh language poet Waldo Williams at Mynachlogddu. If you're lucky to get clear weather, you'll be able to see north to the Lleyn peninsula and west to the hills of Co. Wicklow in Ireland. Keep your eyes peeled on the hill though as the bird life, particularly in the winter months, can be remarkable with living clouds of starlings congregating to roost there. Also look out for hunting buzzards and sparrowhawks. In the spring ring ouzel and snow bunting are common migrants.

Much of the upland is boggy and, as a result, very acidic so you can find rare acid tolerant plants like fir clubmoss, liverwort, ferns and orchids with insects like the marsh fritillary butterfly and the southern damselfly. Heather carpets the drier heathland in late summer look out for buzzards, kestrels, curlews, ravens and skylarks.


Click here for a map of the route.


Characteristics: Rugged moorland and mire, livestock, gradients range 200-360 m, 2.6 Km walking on minor road


Walks provided by:
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority
Pembrokeshire Coast


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