2-GALLERIES-MILFORD HAVEN

MILFORD HAVEN + CLEDDAU WATERWAYS

2 - WEST ANGLE to SANDY HAVEN ).

The Pembrokeshire Coast Path , after West Angle , heads East , reaching Pembroke Dock , then crosses the estuary by the Cleddau Toll Bridge to Neyland and then heads west to Sandy Haven.

Fortifications were built 1850/1870 to protect Milford Haven from invasion by the French forces of Napoleon III :- St Catherine's (tenby) , East Blockhouse , Thorn Island , Chapel Bay , Popton , Scoverston (Inland - waterston) , Hubberston , South Hook , Stack Rock , Dale , West Blockhouse .
Classed as Palmerston Follies after Lord Palmerston the British PM at the time.

In 1814 the admiralty transfered its Milford Haven dockyard to Paterchurch (Pembroke Dock ) . The present buildings date mostly from Dockyard times (1814-1926). The towns shipbuilders constructed 263 vessels for the Royal Navy , ranging from gunboats to battleships and 5 Royal Yachts for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
The forts and barracks which protected the Dockyard and housed the garrison are still prominent. The martello design towers (1851). The enormous hangars in the Dockyard are reminders of World War II's largest operational flying boat base.

2.2 and 2.3 are extra sections.

The Pembrokeshire Coast - by definition - follows the tidal Daugleddau , inland , and reaches Blackpool Mill on the Eastern Cleddau , and Haverford West on the Western Cleddau .

Many walkers do not attempt large parts of the path between , West Angle - Sandy Haven .

East of the Toll bridge , the Daugleddau and the two Cleddau Rivers / with many small hamlets on their banks / the mudflats attracting many birds.

COAST GEOLOGY :-

Old Red Sandstone predominates - ( DEVONIAN PERIOD - 360 / 420 million years ) , limestone being eroded to form bays , in the sandstone of the estuary .

Coal Measures - ( CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD - 290 / 360 million years ) , appear in the upper reaches of the Cleddau , an important resource along with limestone , in years past .

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