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Port Eynon Point and Culver Hole
Round the point past a ruined salt house to a medieval wall built into a cliff fissure, which nobody has satisfactorily explained.
- Distance
- 3.7 mi / 6 km
- Time
- 2 hr 10
- Ascent
- 180 m
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Shape
- Circular
Where it is
The circle shows the general area, not the exact start. Use the directions link below to get to the car park itself. Contours and paths shown are OpenTopoMap, drawn from OpenStreetMap data.
The route
From the beach, follow the coast path round the point and along the cliffs, returning inland. Rocky in places.
Worth knowing
- Culver Hole is a wall of masonry filling a cliff cleft, variously explained as a dovecote, a smugglers’ store or part of a castle.
- The Salt House ruins on the shore were a sixteenth-century salt works.
- The point is a good seawatching spot in autumn.
What you’ll see
The Salt House ruins, Culver Hole in its cleft, and limestone cliffs east towards Oxwich.
Background
Port Eynon was a smuggling and oyster fishing village. The oyster beds collapsed in the nineteenth century and the industry went with them.