Martin McDowell's Blog

This is actually the tip of the peninsula close to Dale that is one of the gates to the Milford Haven harbour – one of Britain’s deep water harbours. The first lighthouse was built on this location in 1714 but the one you can see now on this location is from 1841. During the 2^nd Wold war there was a whole complex of buildings around it that were used as a training centre for pilots and radar operators. The strange and amusing fact about this was that because of the lack of planes during the war the student pilots could not use real planes but had to instead use confiscated Walls ice cream tricycles. Later the site was a training site for meteorologists.
The site was closed in 1960 and many years later it was taken over by the Pembrokeshire’s national park. Even though the site is currently off limits to “us ordinaries” as the road and site are private (well, walkers can come through but that is about it). The lighthouse and adjacent buildings are a B&B/guesthouse. However there is still some fenced-off buildings there that are used for fog warnings. There is a board on the closed gates that warns visitors that the fog horn could go off at any time without warning even causing possible deafness.
Just so you know