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Explore the<br />
Welsh <strong>coast</strong><br />
Your guide to the very best of the Welsh <strong>coast</strong><br />
INSIDE:<br />
8 WALKS<br />
<strong>national</strong><strong>trust</strong>.org.uk/wales-<strong>coast</strong>
What’s on?<br />
Welcome<br />
to the Welsh <strong>coast</strong><br />
We invite you to <strong>explore</strong><br />
Wales’ most extraordinary <strong>coast</strong>line,<br />
cared for by National Trust Wales.<br />
To help you get the most out of<br />
the <strong>coast</strong> we have an exciting<br />
programme of events at a choice<br />
of beautiful locations throughout<br />
Wales<br />
To start, take a look at the map<br />
and featured walks in this guide,<br />
then to get involved or find an<br />
event near your, visit our Welsh<br />
<strong>coast</strong> website for up-to-date<br />
information:<br />
<strong>national</strong><strong>trust</strong>.org.uk/wales-<strong>coast</strong><br />
For over 50 years, people<br />
from all over Wales and<br />
beyond have been helping<br />
us to save and look after<br />
special places on Wales’<br />
beautiful <strong>coast</strong>.<br />
Thanks to your help in<br />
supporting our successful<br />
Coastline Campaign,<br />
originally launched as<br />
Enterprise Neptune in 1965,<br />
we permanently protect 157<br />
miles of the <strong>coast</strong> you love.<br />
Places like Rhossili Bay –<br />
often voted Wales’ most<br />
beautiful beach, the unspoilt<br />
wildlife haven of Stackpole<br />
and the secluded beaches<br />
of Ceredigion, Llŷn and<br />
Anglesey, are all in our<br />
care and protection.<br />
These places are cared for by<br />
our team of rangers so that<br />
you and future generations<br />
can enjoy their breathtaking<br />
beauty, rich wildlife and<br />
fascinating heritage.<br />
Get involved<br />
Look out for a fun<br />
event near you.<br />
Find out about<br />
new Welsh <strong>coast</strong><br />
walks being<br />
created for you.<br />
Find out how your<br />
help can protect<br />
the Welsh <strong>coast</strong>.<br />
Use this guide to plan your trip to the Welsh <strong>coast</strong><br />
and find out how you can help us look after it.<br />
<strong>national</strong><strong>trust</strong>.org.uk/wales-<strong>coast</strong><br />
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FRONT COVER: SUNSET AT TRAETH LLYFN, YNYS BARRI, PEMBROKESHIRE<br />
MAIN PHOTO: WHITEFORD BURROWS, GOWER<br />
Welcome 3
Our Story<br />
Over a century ago<br />
a farsighted Barmouth resident called Fanny Talbot decided<br />
to give a wild and unspoilt hillside called Dinas Oleu to the<br />
National Trust, then in the first month of its existence.<br />
AN AVERAGE OF<br />
2 MILES OF WELSH COAST<br />
A YEAR HAS BEEN SAVED<br />
BY OUR COASTLINE CAMPAIGN<br />
SINCE 1965<br />
Worried that modern<br />
developments would spoil its<br />
beauty, she was one of the<br />
first people to see the benefits<br />
of holding beautiful places ‘in<br />
<strong>trust</strong> for the nation’.<br />
Shocked at how development<br />
was threatening the beauty<br />
of the <strong>coast</strong>, he said<br />
“It is urgently desirable that<br />
the <strong>coast</strong> should be preserved<br />
in its natural beauty.”<br />
Forty years later, when the<br />
National Trust’s protection<br />
of the <strong>coast</strong> had extended to<br />
just eight miles, the historian<br />
George Trevelyan visited<br />
Pembrokeshire.<br />
Then, in 1965, the National<br />
Trust launched its Enterprise<br />
Neptune appeal, starting with<br />
the purchase of Whiteford<br />
Burrows on Gower.<br />
Since then, our protection of the very best of the<br />
Welsh <strong>coast</strong> has increased to a total of 157 miles.<br />
An amazing achievement made<br />
possible with public donations.<br />
In this guide you<br />
can find out about<br />
what our Coastline<br />
Campaign is funding<br />
today and what we<br />
need your help to<br />
protect on the Welsh<br />
<strong>coast</strong> in the future.<br />
WHITEFORD BURROWS, GOWER<br />
GEORGE TREVELYAN<br />
CAMPAIGNED FOR<br />
PROTECTING THE WELSH<br />
COAST IN THE 1930S.<br />
4 Welsh <strong>coast</strong> MAIN PHOTO: THE NATIONAL TRUST’S FIRST PROPERTY, DINAS OLEU<br />
Our story 5
Supporting<br />
our <strong>coast</strong>al cause<br />
Did you know that as<br />
well as saving special<br />
<strong>coast</strong>al places through<br />
ownership, our<br />
Coastline Campaign also<br />
helps us look after the<br />
<strong>coast</strong>, doing important<br />
work such as…<br />
protecting places of<br />
priceless historic or<br />
archaeological interest<br />
restoring valuable<br />
wildlife habitats<br />
mending eroded paths<br />
…all so that you and your<br />
family can get more from<br />
your visit to the <strong>coast</strong>.<br />
Let three of our <strong>coast</strong>al<br />
rangers guide you<br />
through some examples<br />
of projects that we’re<br />
working on…<br />
Experience the beautiful<br />
Welsh <strong>coast</strong><br />
Our exclusive prize draw competition will give the<br />
lucky winner the chance to experience the beauty<br />
of the Welsh <strong>coast</strong> in Pembrokeshire.<br />
See page 16 to see how you could be in the running.<br />
Kathryn<br />
Thomas<br />
Gower<br />
We’re responding to<br />
the challenges of sealevel<br />
rise by a creating<br />
an amazing area of<br />
wildlife-rich salt marsh<br />
at Cwm Ivy, Gower.<br />
We hope this will reduce<br />
the flood-risk down the<br />
<strong>coast</strong> whilst providing<br />
great bird-watching<br />
opportunities.<br />
Matt<br />
Thompson<br />
Pembrokeshire<br />
Thanks to the Coastline<br />
Campaign fund, we’re<br />
creating four kilometres<br />
of new <strong>coast</strong>al walks<br />
at Southwood,<br />
near Newgale,<br />
Pembrokeshire.<br />
Laura<br />
Hughes<br />
Llŷn<br />
We’re joining up with<br />
the local community<br />
to restore a valuable<br />
part of Llŷn’s maritime<br />
heritage, two traditional<br />
fishing boats, built<br />
about 100 years ago<br />
in Aberdaron to a<br />
unique design.<br />
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