Great Castle Head
Great Castle Head is a cape in Dale, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Great Castle Head is situated nearby to the locality South Hook Fort, as well as near the village St Ishmaels.Places of Interest
Highlights include Thorne Island and Dale Fort.
Thorne Island
Island
Photo: Thorne17, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Thorne Island is a rocky islet and part of the community of Angle, Pembrokeshire, Wales, with an area of 2 acres, dominated by a coastal artillery fort built to defend the Milford Haven Waterway in the mid-19th century.
Dale Fort
Castle
Photo: Julian Cremona, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dale Fort is a mid-19th-century coastal artillery fort at Dale Head, a rocky promontory near Dale, Pembrokeshire, west of Milford Haven in Wales. It is one of the centres run by Field Studies Council and offers residential and non-residential fieldwork for schools, colleges and universities, holiday accommodation and professional and leisure courses in natural history and arts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Hook Fort and St Ishmaels.
South Hook Fort
Locality
Photo: Robin Lucas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
South Hook Fort, on the northern shore of Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, is a Grade II* listed building which belongs to a series of forts built as part of the inner line of defence of the Haven following the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom.
St Ishmaels
Village
Photo: Dara Jasumani, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Ishmaels or St Ishmael's is a village, parish and community close to the Milford Haven Waterway in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
Herbrandston
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Herbrandston is a small village on the southwest Pembrokeshire coast. It has a large beach with clean red 'Sandy Haven' sand, which leads up to a tidal creek. There is a carpark adjoining the beach.
Great Castle Head
- Type: Cape
- Category: landform
- Location: Dale, Pembrokeshire, South Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.71045° or 51° 42′ 38″ northLongitude
-5.11578° or 5° 6′ 57″ westElevation
95 feet (29 metres)Open location code
9C3PPV6M+5MOpenStreetMap ID
node 6733542160OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
2648139
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