Walks near Freshwater West

5 of our walks start within about 6 miles of Freshwater West — 32 miles of walking between them. The nearest starts in the village itself: Freshwater West to Stack Rocks (the Castlemartin Range section).

1 is a circular — park once, walk, end up back at the car. 3 are linear stages of the Coast Path, needing transport at both ends; 1 is there-and-back to something worth seeing.

1 is graded easy. Grading here is about ascent, not distance — the Coast Path drops into every valley it meets and climbs straight back out.

Sorted by how far the start is from Freshwater West. Every one has parking notes, an honest difficulty grade and a safety section on its own page.

Freshwater West to Stack Rocks (the Castlemartin Range section)

The one stage of the Coast Path most walkers never do on the coast: the cliff route crosses a live firing range and the everyday alternative is inland.

7 miles · 3–3½ hours · Moderate

Starts in the village

West Angle Bay to Freshwater West

Round the exposed corner where the Haven meets the Atlantic, from a sheltered bay with a café to the wildest surf beach in Wales.

6 miles · 3–3½ hours · Moderate

Starts 3 miles from Freshwater West

Stack Rocks, the Green Bridge of Wales and St Govan's Chapel

Flat clifftop limestone at the southern tip of Wales, with the best sea arch in the country and a 13th-century chapel wedged in a cleft.

4 miles · 2 hours each way · Easy

Starts 4 miles from Freshwater West

Dale to Sandy Haven

A gentle stage along the north shore of the Haven with two tidal stepping-stone crossings that will add four miles to your day if you get them wrong.

7 miles · 3½–4 hours · Moderate

Starts 6 miles from Freshwater West

The Dale Peninsula and St Ann's Head

A full-day circuit of the peninsula that guards the mouth of the Milford Haven waterway, past a lighthouse, three forts and the beach where Henry Tudor landed.

8 miles · 4–5 hours · Moderate