Gwaun
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The Gwaun Valley is a long wooded defile cutting through the Preseli Moors to Lower Fishguard where the Afon Gwaun flows into Fishguard Bay.
Steep tracks from the moors lead down to occasional bridging points over the river, and where there is a bridge there is usually a small community.
Cilshafe Wood (SM 979364)
In 1941 a greenfield site was set aside here for the use of mobile heavy anti-aircraft guns to defend both the harbour at Fishguard and the mine depot at Trecwn.
Llanychlwydog (SN 035366)
Ffordd Bedd Morris was the site of a WWII High Frequency Direction Finding Station used to track the position of aircraft. There were two three-storey wooden HF/DF towers but few traces of the complex now remain.
Locations of Interest
- Mynydd Craig-lwyd
- SN 000330 Back to map
- Llanychaer pill-box
- SM 990 351 Back to map
Information from: Dyfed Archaeological Trust
- MYNYDD MELYN
- The remains of what seems once to have been an extensive system of huts and enclosures. Lewis, J 1962. Back to map
- CERRIG LLADRON
- A classic stone pair, one large and one small, located 1m apart with a small earthfast stone just visible on the ground surface between them. The larger stone measures 1.71m high and 1m x 1.94m x 1.10m x 1.04m at its base with its long axis aligned n Back to map
