Four - Pembrokeshire - Foel Cwmcerwyn (536m)

Source of the Preseli Bluestones used to construct Stonehenge. This is our own stomping ground so we’ve dragged the little Peaksters up here in the past when they were tiny, and wearing matching pink welly boots. Did feel a twinge of guilt about that on the way up this time – it’s not a long hike up from the carpark at the base of Foel Eryr, but it is steep. ( A better walk might have been to climb up from Rosebush, but we were in need of something a bit quicker (and dirtier ?!) today.) It’s also quite tricksy under foot in places, and I never manage it without getting a “socker” – at least one wet, black boggy foot.  


Looking back towards the Gwuan Valley and
Newport Mountain

The first bit of the walk is part of the incredible “Golden Road” which crosses the Preseli ridge to Foeldrygarn on an ancient Neolithic route to and from Ireland. Maps show the path following the treeline for part of the walk, but the pesky foresters keep cutting the trees down which can be a bit disorientating. We then veer off South to the peak at 536m, which is a prehistoric tumuli, or burial site. Although 6 miles from the sea, it lies within the borders of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and there are views down to Newport and Fishguard in the North.  

Taffy romping ahead on the path to the summit


Today we walk up in a howling gale, and as I admire the view something small and black bowls past my head at speed and disappears from view. It turned out to be W’s camera lens cap, and despite a lot of scrabbling about in the cotton grass we didn’t manage to find it.

Trig point on top of Foel Cwmcerwyn.
(Rosebush Reservoir in distance).


Quite happy to yomp back down again and drive into the village for a cheeky pint of Cwrw in the beer garden / ”railway station” at the excellent Tafarn Sinc pub.

Tavern Sinc pub in Rosebush. (Someone needs
to find a bucket & sponge)!



Replica station at Tavern Sinc pub
(complete with recorded train sounds)!