Qualla: Cemaes Head https://qualla.com/cemaes-head en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/cemaes-head-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Cemaes Head https://qualla.com/cemaes-head Cemaes Head: Introduction https://qualla.com/cemaes-head/ Photo credit Dylan Moore, CC BY-SA 2.0. From across the Teifi estuary, Cemaes Head does not look like much. A long whaleback of green pasture sloping down to the sea, divided by stony field-banks, with no spectacular silhouette and no real summit. The drama is hidden. Walk over the brow and stand at the cliff edge on the north-western face, and the ground simply ends. Five hundred and seventy-five feet of mudstone drops vertically into the Atlantic. The cliffs are the highest in Pembrokeshire. And the rock itself, viewed from a boat below, shows the most violent geology you will see anywhere on the British coast.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/cemaes-head-wp/gck8-cemaes-head-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cemaes Head: Reading the Folds https://qualla.com/cemaes-head/ Photo credit Patrick, CC BY-SA 2.0. The bedrock at Cemaes Head is Llanvirn-Caradoc black mudstone, deposited roughly 470 million years ago in the Ordovician period, on the floor of an ocean that no longer exists. Then the continents that bordered that ocean began to close. Over hundreds of millions of years, the mu...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/cemaes-head-wp/gck8-cemaes-head-reading-the-folds.mp3 0:06 2 full Cemaes Head: The Highest Cliff https://qualla.com/cemaes-head/ Photo credit Nomadjenkinator (talk) (Uploads), Public domain. Pengarn, the highest point of the headland, reaches 189 metres above sea level — about 620 feet, marked by a pillar trig point at grid reference SN 13214 48500. The cliffs proper, on the seaward face, run up to 175 metres or about 575 feet. That makes Cemaes Head the highest clif...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/cemaes-head-wp/gck8-cemaes-head-the-highest-cliff.mp3 0:06 3 full Cemaes Head: Choughs and Welsh Ponies https://qualla.com/cemaes-head/ Photo credit Hogyn Lleol, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1984, the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales acquired 20 hectares of the headland as a nature reserve — their fiftieth, with help from the Countryside Commission, Dyfed County Council, the Nature Conservancy Council, and the World Wildlife Fund. The reserve protects the se...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/cemaes-head-wp/gck8-cemaes-head-choughs-and-welsh-ponies.mp3 0:06 4 full Cemaes Head: The Lookout Post https://qualla.com/cemaes-head/ Photo credit Hogyn Lleol, CC BY-SA 4.0. On the cliff top above Traeth Godir Coch, the stony beach exposed at low water, stands the abandoned shell of a Victorian coastguard lookout. It appears on Ordnance Survey maps from 1887. During the Second World War it was extended seawards with a brick wide-windowed lean-to, and...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/cemaes-head-wp/gck8-cemaes-head-the-lookout-post.mp3 0:06 5 full Cemaes Head: The First Stile https://qualla.com/cemaes-head/ Photo credit Hogyn Lleol, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cemaes Head sits near the northern end of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path — a 186-mile national trail itself part of the 870-mile Wales Coast Path. By convention, all the stiles and gates on the Pembrokeshire route are numbered from north to south. The stile on Cemaes Head carries t...

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