The Short Cut from Fishguard to Goodwick

The next three photographs are of the houses, built many years ago, situated at the bottom of the Short Cut; all of the houses are lived in today. This steep path leads down from the end of the Marine Walk to the bottom of  Gasworks Hill and Goodwick Parrog.  As can be seen, the views extend along the length of the Parrog and the beach, across to Goodwick itself.

In the 1950s the late Mr B.R Lewis had a weekly column in the Fishguard Echo entitled “Turning Back the Clock” in which he wrote about  Fishguard as he remembered it, one hundred or so years before.  In his recollections, he writes about the Short Cut, as being “A very old path known in days since the Dutch Invaders as “Parc Y Beddau” or “Banc Y Beddau” (field or bank of graves), reputed to be the burial place of some of the French soldiers who were killed during the Last Invasion of 1797″

Thanks must go to Mr Guy Lewis for giving us access to the writings of his Grandfather, Mr B.R Lewis.