An Afternoon At The Seaside: Final week I used to be staying with buddies in a vacation cottage in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, and on Sunday 1st September after a late lunch we drove the roughly seven miles all the way down to the coast at Saundersfoot.
Saundersfoot is a small seaside resort a number of miles from its a lot bigger neighbour Tenby however regardless of its measurement appears to have every thing wanted for a day on the seaside, together with one thing that appears uncommon nowadays, sewage-free bathing, with a very good sandy seashore that will get cleaned by each excessive tide. However none of us swam there.
There have been a minimum of 5 coal mines within the space within the nineteenth century, producing among the most interesting high quality anthracite, with tramways bringing it all the way down to the seashore for delivery out. In 1829 Parliament gave permission to the Saundersfoot Railway and Harbour Firm for the constructing of a harbour to export coal and different native items, bringing in iron ore to supply pig iron.
The mines have lengthy closed however the harbour continues to be there, now with non-public moorings, and nonetheless utilized by a number of fishermen and for pleasure journeys across the bay, in addition to the crusing membership.
Saundersfoot can be virtually on the railway, with a station over a mile to the north bearing its title, however with so few trains to be virtually ineffective. And in winter the trains are sometimes changed by buses.
We had been in a position to park on the seafront, with only a footpath between us an the seashore and determined to stroll the brief distance to the harbour.
We walked alongside the pier to the mouth of the harbour, then again to the city the place we discovered a store promoting correct ice cream in various attention-grabbing flavours.
Then we walked alongside the opposite facet of the harbour to the harbour mouth. There may be one other smaller seashore to the south of the harbour.
Again on the town (or slightly massive village) we adopted the map on the detailed leaflet we had on Saundersfoot to take a look at its three nineteenth century chapels. The Congregational one is now transformed to residential use, the Wesley Methodist nonetheless in enterprise and the Baptist had a small discover asserting a brief closure and welcoming folks to as a substitute worship with the Methodists.
On our approach into the village we had handed the parish church round three-quarters of a mile from the seashore however didn’t cease to take a look at this Grade II* constructing with a medieval tower.
After we returned to the seashore and lent on the promenade railings to take a look at the seashore, now virtually all lined by the ocean. I took a number of final footage, although it’s now most likely considered against the law to {photograph} folks – notably kids – having fun with themselves on the seaside.
The day past we had shared a rail alternative taxi from Carmarthen with a girl who was travelling to go to her daughter in Kilgetty, the subsequent village to Saundersfoot and doubtless the one particular person aside from our group in Pembrokeshire that we knew. We discovered her searching over the ocean from identical railing as us and had a brief dialog.
Extra footage from Saundersfoot.
Tags: afternoon, seashore, boats, chapels, harbour, Vacation, ice cream, Pembrokeshire, peter Marshall, Saundersfoot, SEA, seaside
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