The Steps2Health walkers turned their backs on Tenby's glorious coastline on Saturday (writes B.S.). We may have walked the familiar streets of the town but, as our volunteer trained walk leaders Barbara Morris and Val Coates had provided us each with a fact sheet, there was something of interest to note in every single road.
Visitors and probably some of our newer residents did not realise that Somerfield, our starting point, was originally the site of the parochial church school and a terrace of cottages called St. Domingo. From ancient wells to the new hospital, our walk had plenty to interest us, as well as providing beneficial exercise.
In fact, our dip into the past continued as we enjoyed coffee in Church House in aid of the Friends of the Community. One of our party has just found a picture in a book of an elm tree that had stood where the Old Oak Insurance office now is. When it was proposed to fell it a hundred years ago there had, apparently, been a great outcry from the townsfolk.
Steps2Health is managed by Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority as part of the all-Wales Walking the Way to Health Initiative.
It is free - just turn up tomorrow (Saturday) outside Somerfield for a 10.30 am start for an easy, but beneficial less than an hour long walk around Tenby.