Directions
Car park to ruined windmill
From the car park turn left and walk up the road. Take care as there is no pavement here.
Take a right turn shortly, following a footpath signup a private lane.
Turn left onto a path sign posted with a yellow arrow and you will pass through a kissing-gate into a field.
Bear left to a gate beyond the field, then right up the lane towards Ty Gwyn. Before Ty Gwyn, turn left over the fields following a waymarked footpath towards a farm.
Cross the lane and another field following more yellow markers. Continue up a gorse-covered hill, over a falling-down wall towards a yellow way marker.
Cross the field sheading towards the ruined windmill. At the windmill head towards the farmhouse.
Ruined windmill to Porth Wen
Pass in front of Pant-y-Gaseg Farm and then go through the gate to the left side of the house.
Follow the track down the hill and through the farm gate by a footpath sign.
Walk up the hill through the gorse and over the stile. Keep to the right of the next field and at the track turn left heading towards the coast.
Turn right at the junction where the lanes meet. Go past Porth Wen Farm and continue down the lane.
Just before the next farm named Castell Farm and after a set of wooden gate posts bear right onto a walled track signposted ‘Coast Path’.
Porth Wen to car park
Follow the Coast Path around the eastern cliffs of Porth Wen. You will get a good view back towards the abandoned brickworks on the other side of the bay. The path is well-defined which enables you to study the amazing cliff formations, the twists in the underlying rock, and the steep-sided inlets. Most of the paths are grass, with a few rocky sections.
You will pass through a couple of kissing-gates and will eventually come to a flat, green area near Bull Bay.
Take a left turn through a gate and follow a path back inland. This will become a road which descends to the bay.
Turn right at the road junction and uphill you will see your starting point of the car park ahead.