Pembrokeshire’s wildlife and coast path really are world class and attract thousands of visitors each year.  At The Clock House we’re ideally located to enable you to make the most of the local wildlife watching and walking opportunities.
The Clock House is the perfect base for your walking holiday along the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path. With many short walks in an around the villages of Marloes, Dale and St Brides you can spend day after day walking and savouring the breath-taking scenery.  Ask us about our guides to local walks, simple easy-to-follow guides to some of the best walks in the area, available for a small charge.

We’re also the perfect place to stay if you’re planning a visit to Skomer Island, with the departure point just five minutes away by car...

More about Skomer

“If I were to choose one Welsh nature reserve that could hold its own against any other reserve, anywhere in the world, it would have to be Skomer”
Iolo Williams, Naturalist & Presenter

A world-renowned seabird paradise, and home to one of the largest breeding colonies of Puffins as well as the world’s largest colony of Manx Shearwaters, Skomer also offers inspirational landscapes and coastlines.

Free from all land-based predators, Skomer has evolved as its own bustling ecosystem in a unique and spectacular landscape covering over 300 hectares. More than 6,000 pairs of Puffins nest on the cliff-tops and over 128,000 pairs of the Manx Shearwaters return to land under the cloak of darkness each evening.
Many other rare and dazzling species of fauna and flora abound on Skomer, from the psychedelic purple of the Bluebell blanket that covers the island in late May to the russet-red of the autumn Bracken. From whirring Guillemots to cronking Ravens, Skomer is an exotic bazaar of the natural world.

Weaved into this wilderness is man’s presence on the island. Settlement remains date back to the Iron Age, giving the island its status as one of the best preserved Scheduled Ancient Monuments in Britain. Shadows of a more recent farming history lie at the centre of the island where the farm buildings still stand. The imposing ruined farmhouse is a sober relic of the harsh – but periodically prosperous – time for the island’s farming population that extended through to the mid twentieth century.

Skomer is now a National Nature Reserve, owned by the Countryside Council for Wales and managed by the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales. A small team of staff, researchers and volunteers populate the island from March to November each year, living in tune with the island and its resources. There is no mains water or mains electricity, no landlines, shops or cars. Skomer is a strange and mystical world; the stuff of fantasy.

Further Information:
www.dale-sailing.co.uk
For trips to and around Skomer Island with Dale Sailing
www.welshwildlife.org
For more information about the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales

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