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The Appeal of Sir Benfro

You like Cornwall, but not its summer crowds? Well the great news is there's a solution just across the Bristol Channel - Pembrokeshire. Like Cornwall, Pembrokeshire - Sir Benfro in Welsh - is a county of surfing beaches: Quaint creeks like Solva: A rugged coast: Moorland walks with Marilyns and prehistoric remains (Mynydd Carningli): A county town with a cathedral (

Dunnottar Castle

At the eastern end of the Highland Boundary Fault a stone fist punches out to the North Sea. The Highlands squeeze the Lowlands to a narrow coastal strip at Stonehaven and, just at its narrowest point, geology has provided a near-impregnable citadel of rock, surrounded on three sides by the sea. On top of this rock sits Dunnottar, the Stirling Castle of Aberdeenshire. Dunnottar: Dunnottar