Walks near Solva
7 of our walks start within about 6 miles of Solva — 42 miles of walking between them. The nearest starts in the village itself: Solva to Newgale.
1 is a circular — park once, walk, end up back at the car. 5 are linear stages of the Coast Path, needing transport at both ends; 1 is there-and-back to something worth seeing.
2 are graded easy, 2 strenuous. That grading 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 Solva. Every one has parking notes, an honest difficulty grade and a safety section on its own page.
Solva to Newgale
A relentlessly up-and-down stage between a drowned-valley harbour and a two-mile shingle beach. Short on paper, hard on the legs.
5 miles · 3 hours · Strenuous
Starts in the village
Newgale to Broad Haven
Along the top of St Brides Bay past the ruins of a colliery that mined coal out under the sea, with four beaches on the way.
7 miles · 3½–4 hours · Moderate
Starts 4 miles from Solva
Abereiddi to Porthgain and the Blue Lagoon
A short, spectacular cliff walk between two abandoned quarry harbours, past the flooded slate pit everyone photographs.
3 miles · 1½ hours each way · Easy
Starts 5 miles from Solva
St Davids Head from Whitesands Bay
Round the headland at the far west of Wales, past an Iron Age fort and a 5,000-year-old burial chamber, with Ramsey Island offshore.
4 miles · 2–3 hours · Moderate
Starts 5 miles from Solva
Whitesands Bay to Solva
Right round the tip of Wales past the Ramsey lifeboat station, Porth Clais and the cathedral's own quarry, finishing in a drowned-valley harbour.
13 miles · 6½–7½ hours · Strenuous
Starts 5 miles from Solva
Distances are to the start of each walk, straight-line from the centre of Solva. Several of these cross grazed clifftop with an unfenced drop — dogs on leads, and if cattle come at you while you’re holding one, let go. In an emergency anywhere near the coast, dial 999 and ask for the Coastguard.