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Meet: Wick Village Hall at 9.50 for 10.00 start, unless otherwise stated
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The Previous Walk:
Rest Bay, Porthcawl, 31st January
Eight of us set off in somewhat stormy weather and in fact it carried on raining all the way to Porthcawl and for the first half hour of the walk. Having met at the Rest Bay carpark in Porthcawl, we walked inland through the Nottage Estate before reaching Moor Lane.
A quick detour to look at Ye Olde Well before crossing under the disused railway line. This line in its heyday carried coal from the Valleys to the port at Porthcawl. It also carried thousands of miners for their regular Miners Fortnight holiday in the many caravan sites and boarding houses in Porthcawl.
We crossed the Nottage/Kenfig Road and followed a track all the way to Sker House, home of the author, Niall Ferguson.
Built 900 years ago Sker House was originally a Cistercian Monastic Grange, made famous in more recent times by RD Blackmore’s novel, The Maid of Sker, written in 1872. The house is also reputed to be haunted.
A short detour took us through a very muddy field avoiding a herd of rather bedraggled looking black bullocks and onto the open moorland towards the sea. An easy boardwalk took us back to the carpark and a well-deserved coffee and cakes in the delightful Rest Bay cafe.
As we left we stood by the newly erected memorial on behalf of the Lifeboatmen who risked their lives to save men who had been shipwrecked from the SS Samtampa on 23rd April 1947. Sadly there were 47 fatalities, 39 from the ship and all 8 volunteers from the Lifeboat crew.
The walk took just over 2 hours and was a distance of 5.5 miles.
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