Isle of Anglesey Coastal Path: Moelfre to Pentraeth

Isle of Anglesey Coastal Path: Moelfre to Pentraeth

Moderate

5 hours

12km

The total length of the Isle of Anglesey Coastal path is 130 miles and on average would take 12 days to complete in full. Luckily if you don’t have 12 days to spare there are a number of sections that you can tackle within a day.

This section of the Anglesey Coastal path takes approximately five hours and takes you from Moelfre to Pentraeth. We did this as a linear walk and stopped at The Ship Inn before turning around and heading back for our campsite.

(1) Starting out from Nant Bychan campsite, with the farm house on your right side head through the farm gate in front of you. After following a short path go through the kissing gate, continue along the path for another short distance and go through a second kissing gate. Heading into a field keeping the hedge to your right. Go through another gate and head down the field towards a caravan park.

(2) Passing through another gate onto the lane. Turn right and head up the road slightly past the cafe at Traeth Bychan. Turn left into the beach car park, cross over the car park to a flight of wooden stairs. At the top of the stairs go through the gate and bear left. Then follow the hedge to the end of the field and over to a wooden bridge and gate. Go straight across the third field to another kissing gate at the top of a set of wooden steps going down to the shingle beach at the back of Traeth Bychan.

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(3) Head across the beach and in the far right corner turn right up the steps, taking a left at the top. Follow the track past the Tan Dinas Holiday Lodge on your left, through a gate and turn left at a junction. Go past a couple of garages, through a gate and along a path. Head left, there is another caravan park, follow a stream on your right. At a split in the track, bear right up the hill, on the left there is a slipway heading into the sea. Keep left off the track along the field edge past a number of holiday chalets. Keep to the left-hand field boundary around the headland of Penrhyn.

(4) Joining an enclosed path, go through a kissing gate, down and up a couple of flights of steps, over a couple of small footbridges, up a set of steps and past the back of Nyth y Wylan at Borthwen. Continue along the enclosed path, the path opens out for a short section. Pass a caravan park on your right. Continue straight ahead and onto rocks along the shore and keep right around and climb the steps to the main road.

(5) Walk along the seafront in Benllech, past the Wendon café and up the hill. After a short while turn left up a surfaced track, through a wheelchair accessible gate. Follow the well-defined path around the back of Traeth Benllech, weaving through woodland to approach St. David’s Caravan Park. At a junction in the paths turn right (left leads onto Beach), and you’ll come out at the Caravan Park. Ignore a left turn (unless you want refreshments!) and carry on past a folly on your right, following a path past a number of chalets on your left. You come out onto a track and carry straight on.

(6) Follow a path parallel to the tarmac drive for a short while before coming out onto it. Turn right, and then very shortly turn left down an enclosed track. Stay right at a gate and follow the track. Bear left past a white house on your right, heading towards the sea in front of you.

(7) You’ll come out in a parking area behind the large stone house Seagarth. Bear right following the drive, leading onto a road along the seafront, cutting left past the benches through a grassy area. Go past the lane leading off to the right, through the car park and past the Old Boathouse Inn.

We ended our walk at The Ship Inn and naturally headed for the bar for some well needed refreshments – the sun had been relentless all day. Unusually for us as we do love a good food and drink review we didn’t order any food on this occasion, although one of the group had eaten here before and told us the food was delicious. The Welsh Dragon Pie was a favourite – a good enough reason to return on a different day in our book.

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  • Mike Richardson

    Mike is a Mancunian who is usually found hiking the Mountains in the Lake District. He has a passion for the outdoors and loves a pint after a day in the Mountains.

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