BBC Countryfile Magazine

03 PEMBROKESHIRE GORS FAWR

12.1 miles/19.5 km

8 hours

Challenging

438m

Walked by Julie Brominicks

Earthfast, they wear grass skirts. Sixteen are gathered here though two have toppled. Eight are glacial erratic rocks, the rest – like the Stonehenge monoliths – spotted dolerite rocks from the Preseli Hills.

Gors Fawr shares none of Stonehenge’s tourism,factor. Rather, these diminutive stones occupy a gorsy plain in a gently peopled landscape.

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