Walking in Gower
Gower is home to numerous superb walks - and some of the more secret ones are well known to your hosts. We share with you a (very) small selection of the walks available.
Landimore Walk
Head down to Landimore, leave your car by the pond and walk through the gate onto the marsh. There a rough path will take you along the edge of the marsh with a forest on a hill on the other side. Expect to see lots of wild ponies, and, when the tide is flowing in, fish jumping in the pill. You may also see herons, egrets, and, if you are very lucky, a kingfisher.
Whitford Burrows
This is a place with everything: woods filled with wild mushrooms, immensely long beaches, dunes dotted with wild flowers and delicious blueberries, marshes filled with numerous bird species - and a bird hide to watch them from - and everywhere wild rabbits racing back to their burrows.
To get to the Whitford, head towards Broughton (through Llanmadoc) but take a right at the old Vicarage. Keep your eyes open for an open field on your right, complete with honesty box. Walk down the hill to the houses at the bottom. If you would prefer a shorter walk, take a right before the houses for a gentle stroll through wild woods (complete with bluebells at the right time of year.) For a longer walk, continue through the gate at the bottom of the woods.
Llangennith
For a few short weeks in the summer, Llangennith can get busy. While the immensely long beach can swallow up any number of visitors, the center of the beach becomes dotted with sunbathers. One area which never becomes full, though, is the walk behind the dunes. Cross the river flowing onto the beach and head back along a path through the dunes. This is dog heaven, with numerous rabbits darting everywhere, but is also another great place for mushrooms and blueberries.
Further up, you may wish to cross over the dunes to the beach, and if it is low tide you will be able to clamber up onto the island at the top of Llangennith and explore the old ruins there. (Be careful not to be caught by the tide!) If you fancy a longer walk, you can stride along the cliffs to Broughton - and even, if you are feeling very fit, continue along the beach to Whitford.
Three Cliffs
Three Cliffs is probably the most beautiful place in Gower, if not in the UK. (You can see it pictured above in the header of our website.) We're not the only ones to think so - the BBC's holiday hit squad voted it the best beach in the UK. The parking area for the walk there also just happens to be by the best ice-cream shop in Gower.
To get to the beach you need to walk through the green overhanging woods, along a dirt path that accompanies a stream. The walk is well worth while, as despite its beauty Three Cliffs never gets busy. The walk opens up into a beautiful valley. You then have the choice of walking straight to the beach, or clambering up a hill to enjoy stupendous views from the old castle located at the top.
Pubs
There are, of course, a host of local pubs for your return journey - and, if you don't want to drive, you'll find one of them just across the road.
Movie - Gower Walk:
A walker shares his love of the Gower Landscape: