Millennium Coastal Path

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The Millennium Coastal Path at Llanelli.
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The Millennium Coastal Path at Pembrey.
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Millennium Coastal Path near Llanelli

The Millennium Coastal Path is a Template:Convert pedestrian walkway and cycleway along the south coast of Carmarthenshire, providing a link between Llanelli and Pembrey Country Park. The cycleway forms a section of both the Celtic Trail cycle route[1] (part of NCN 47) and the National Cycle Network NCN 4.

The Millennium Coastal Path runs through the Millennium Coastal Park. More than Template:Convert of industrial wasteland was remediated to construct the park, along Template:Convert of coastline.[2] The Millennium Coastal Path may refer specifically to the Template:Convert cycle and walking path from The Llanelli Discovery Centre to Burry Port and Pembury Forest,[3] and more generally to the Template:Convert section of the Wales Coast Path through the park from Bynea Gateway to Burry Port.[4]

On the evening of Monday 19 February 2007, a high tide combined with a high storm swell caused severe damage to a section of the path and cycle route near Burry Port. A 440 yards section was damaged with complete loss of a 160 yards section.[5]

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  1. "Llanelli Millennium Coastal Path", Wales Online, 4 Mar 2010. Retrieved 2013-10-08.
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  3. Sustrans Millennium Coastal Path, accessed 7 December 2013
  4. Wales Coast Path distance tables, accessed 7 December 2013
  5. NewsWales 21 February 2013, accessed 6 December 2013