The main purpose of my great hike from Pendine to Llandawke was to see the effigy of St Margaret Marloes in the church (more on that at https://welshtombs.wordpress.com/2026/05/28/st-margaret-marloes/ )
The walk there was to be honest a bit tedious. It’s one of the less satisfactory sections of the Wales Coast Path, hugging the main coast road because the actual coast line is MOD land and still used for firing. I tried several footpaths leading inland but all were impassably blocked. The coast path in general is a great idea but maintaining it takes all a local authority’s footpaths budget in these straitened times and anything inland has to be neglected.
So when I left the church I decided to walk back along the very minor road that leads along the ridge. Nearly at the B road to Pendine I saw this
and thought ‘I have been here before’. This was back in the early 2000s when we were working on the Cistercian Way project and trying to find routes through rural Carmarthenshire.
But it wasn’t like this – the chapel was derelict, door and windows bricked up and tin sheet on the roof.
It’s the same building, though. Possibly intended for an AirBNB but still, conserved for years to come.
And the plaque over the door, which I once read as commemorating the Heroes of Conscience of 1692, has been recut and now clearly states
Ebenezer
Founded in 1862
The Bicentenary
of the
Heroes of Conscience
Of 1662
– those stalwarts who refused to accept the Restoration settlement of the Anglican church and went their own way.
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