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The Golden Road – Pembrokeshire Coast National Park

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The Golden Road – Pembrokeshire Coast National Park

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5.0

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18

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The Golden Road – Pembrokeshire Coast National Park

02:48

9.85km

160m

Hiking

This superb linear walk follows a route across the moorland spine of the Preseli Hills, known as ‘the Golden Road’. An ancient way, thought to be around 5,000 years old, it’s unsurprisingly rich in history, with even a hint of Arthurian legend and associations with Stonehenge. Being a one-way route, you’ll have to arrange transport at either end or make a longer day of it by taking on an out-and-back.

The route starts high, at Bwlch y Gwynt, where there are parking spaces. On Tuesdays you can take the Rosebush bus service 344, but this isn’t an option on other days of the week.

To begin, you pass Pantmaenog Forest and ascend towards the carin-adorned summit of Foel Feddau. From here, the route gradually descends on an undulating course to the east. As you stride out, consider that this was once a major route used by travellers journeying to and from Ireland. It may be that the Pembrokeshire bluestones used to construct Stonehenge were transported along this way.

An impressive rocky tor awaits at Carn Bica, quickly followed by an eye-shaped arrangement of stones known as Bedd Arthur. Legend has it that this is the final resting place of King Arthur, though the stone circle dates all the way back to the Neolithic era.

The final summit on the route is Carn Menyn, which boasts a magnificent bluestone tor. The materials used to build Stonehenge’s inner circle were originally from here. There’s an optional detour to Foeldrygarn, once home to an Iron Age hillfort, otherwise, the final descent brings you to parking spaces on a minor road to the southwest of Crymych.

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Mae’r daith linol odidog yma’n dilyn llwybr ar draws asgwrn cefn rhostirol Bryniau’r Preseli, ac mae’n cael ei adnabod fel 'Y Ffordd Euraidd'. Credir bod y ffordd hynafol hon tua 5,000 o flynyddoedd oed. Mae'n gyfoethog mewn hanes, gyda awgrym bach o chwedl y Frenin Arthur a chysylltiadau â Côr y Cewri. Gan ei bod yn daith unffordd, bydd rhaid sicrhau cludiant ym mhob pen neu treulio diwrnod hirach trwy gerdded yno a nôl.

Mae'r llwybr yn dechrau yn uchel, yn Bwlch y Gwynt, lle mae mannau i barcio. Pob dydd Mawrth, gallwch gymrud gwasanaeth bws Rosebush rhif 344, ond nid yw hyn yn opsiwn ar ddiwrnodau eraill o'r wythnos.

I ddechrau, byddwch yn pasio Coedwig Pantmaenog ac yn dringo tuag at gopa Foel Feddau sydd wedi'i addurno â charnau. O fan hyn, mae'r llwybr yn disgyn yn raddol ar hyd tirwedd tonnog i'r dwyrain. Wrth i chi gerdded, ystyriwch y ffaith bod y prif lwybr yma wedi cael ei ddefnyddio gan deithwyr i Iwerddon a nôl. Mae'n bosibl mai ar hyd y llwybr hwn cludwyd y cerrig gleision ddefnyddiwyd i adeiladu Côr y Cewri.

Mae Tôr creigiog anhygoel yn eich disgwyl yng Ngharn Bica, a hynny'n cael ei ddilyn yn gyflym gan drefniant o gerrig ar siap llygad a elwir yn Bedd Arthur. Mae chwedlau'n dweud mai dyma’r lle y cafodd y Brenin Arthur ei gladdu, er bod y cylch cerrig yn dyddio'n ôl i’r Oes Neolithig.

Y copa olaf ar y llwybr yw Carn Menyn, gyda’i dôr ysblennydd o gerrig gleision. Daeth y deunyddiau i adeiladu cylch mewnol Côr y Cewri yn wreiddiol o’r fan hyn. Mae llwybr dewisol i Fryngaer o Oes Hearn yn Foeldrygarn, neu gall y disgyniad olaf eich tywys at fannau parcio ar ffordd fach i dde-orllewin Crymych.

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Last updated: February 7, 2025

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13 m

Bwlch y Gwynt Pass

Highlight • Viewpoint

The B4329 is the only road that bisects the main spine of the Preseli Hills and it reaches a high point of over 1,300 feet (400m) at Bwlch y Gwynt. There's parking here for those wanting a high start point for a quick raid on the Preseli range's three highest summits. Foel Cwmcerwyn and Foel Feddau rise to the east and Foel Eryr is tantalisingly close to the west.

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2.80 km

Foel Feddau summit

Highlight • Natural Monument

The views from Foel Feddau summit, at 1,432 feet (467m), make the slight detour from the Golden Road, the ridgeline that forms the spine of the Preseli Hills, worthwhile. The views of the steeper east face of Foel Cwmcerwyn are particularly good.

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5.76 km

Bedd Arthur Stone Circle

Highlight • Natural Monument

The supposed burial place of King Arthur, although the stones predate the legend by a few thousand years. But don't let the truth get in the way of a good story! That said, sites of importance have been reused throughout the ages, so you never know. Regardless, what a place!

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7.40 km

Carn Menyn

Highlight • Natural Monument

This collection of craggy rock outcrops sits on top of the Preseli ridge, close to the stone setting of Bedd Arthur. Carn Menyn means ‘Butter Rock’ in Welsh. At 1,198 feet (365 m) high, you are afforded magnificent views over the Gower Peninsula and across Cardigan Bay to the Llŷn Peninsula.

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9.85 km

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6.99 km

2.68 km

172 m

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Surfaces

6.61 km

3.05 km

182 m

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Friday 28 August

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July 1, 2023,Day 1 The Golden Road across the Preseli Hills — Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Day 1 of my Preseli hike in Pembrokeshire. I have been wanting to do this walk for ages now and it didn't disappoint. You can park at the car park where there is ample parking. The routes then goes along the rolling hills and up to Foel Drygarn. It is an ancient route and apparently king Arthur is buried there... …

June 21, 2023

This superb linear walk follows a route across the moorland spine of the Preseli Hills, known as ‘the Golden Road’. An ancient way, thought to be around 5,000 years old, it’s unsurprisingly rich in history, with even a hint of Arthurian legend and associations with Stonehenge. Being a one-way route

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