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Walks with History
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The authors aims for this guide are simplicity and variety which sounds like an excellent start to me. He selects fourteen circular walks in the area to highlight the beauty and history of these diverse landscapes, their natural habitats, and the traces of human influence through the centuries. The routes range from 2 to 11 miles (3.5km to 17.5km) and are graded as easy, moderate or strenuous. The Carmarthenshire coast section starts with a 7 mile/11km walk from Pendine, whose sands are infamous for attempts at breaking land-speed records, before heading on to Gilman Point which (together with Telpyn Point) is one of the principal seabird colony sites in Carmarthen Bay, and finally to the Neolithic burial chambers around Ragwen Point. This is followed by a slightly shorter circular from Laugharne, exploring some of the sources of inspiration for its most famous resident the castle, the boat house and writing shed, and Sir Johns Hill of which Dylan Thomas wrote, and a black cap of jackdaws Sir Johns just hill dons, and again the gulled birds hare to the hawk on fire, the halter height, over Towys fins. From here you can look back over the Taf and Tywi rivers and Pendine Burrows, the largest spit and sand dune system in west Wales. For something a bit shorter, theres a two-mile route around Cydweli/Kidwelly, whose medieval port once rivalled Carmarthens as the busiest in south Wales. The choice of walks on Gower is equally varied: Walk 8 in the north-west includes both the smallest church on the peninsula at Llanmadog and its largest, at Llangenydd, named after Gowers own Saint Cenydd, who was cruelly floated out in a cot, unwanted, into the waters of the Burry Inlet and then, thankfully, rescued by seagulls and raised by an angel, before settling here. One of the longer and more strenuous walks can be found further south, starting from Port Eynon and covering a section of cliffs often referred to as the Magnificent Five Miles up limestone ridges and down into slades with curious names such as Red Gut and Groaning Slade. This route also takes the walker to the mysterious limestone Culver Hole and past sites of bone-cave excavations, including the place where the first human fossil was discovered named the Red Lady of Paviland but later found to be the body of a young man. This is a fascinating book. I particularly like the format which separates the walking directions from the points of interest, as intertwining them can sometimes be a little confusing and frustrating. OS maps are recommended in addition to the directions and drawn maps here. In addition to the walks described here, the author points to others in the area: the Carmarthen Bay Coastal Path, Cwm Lliedi Reservoir, The Gower Way, the Millennium Coastal Park Llanelli and St Illtyds Walk. A thoroughly enjoyable guide. Jane MacNamee It is possible to use this review for promotional purposes, but the following acknowledgment should be included: A review from www.gwales.com, with the permission of the Welsh Books Council. Gellir defnyddio'r adolygiad hwn at bwrpas hybu, ond gofynnir i chi gynnwys y gydnabyddiaeth ganlynol: Adolygiad oddi ar www.gwales.com, trwy ganiatd Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru. -- Welsh Books Council

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