Solva Coast

East of St David's as far as Newgale, the National Trust looks after a run of Pembrokeshire cliff, headland and valley centred on the harbour village of Solva. Lime kilns thought to be at least 200 years old line the harbour edge, and the Gribin headland above carries one of three Iron Age promontory forts here, with Porth y Rhaw and Dinas Fawr, all occupied over two thousand years ago. In the steep-sided Nine Wells Valley the foundations of two mills that once worked corn and cloth can still be seen, and red stone is still cut from the seaward end of Caerbwdy Valley for repairs to St David's Cathedral. The first Smalls lighthouse was built in Solva harbour in 1776 and towed out to its reef. Dogs are welcome under close control, on a short lead near livestock and nesting birds. There is no Trust car park: the National Park's pay and display car park at Solva Harbour has public toilets, and members park free. Paths are rough with sudden gradients, though a 400-metre hard track follows the harbourside.