Milford Haven Waterway

This article is about the waterway. For the town, see Milford Haven.

Milford Haven Waterway from 1946

Milford Haven Waterway (Welsh: Dyfrffordd Aberdaugleddau) is a natural harbour in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is a ria or drowned valley which was flooded at the end of the last ice age.[1][2] The Daugleddau estuary winds west to the sea. As one of the deepest natural harbours in the world, it is a busy shipping channel, trafficked by ferries from Pembroke Dock to Ireland, oil tankers and pleasure craft. Admiral Horatio Nelson, visiting the haven with the Hamiltons, described it as the next best natural harbour to Trincomalee in Ceylon (today's Sri Lanka) and "the finest port in Christendom".[3] Much of the coastline of the Waterway is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, listed as Milford Haven Waterway SSSI.

  1. ^ "Milford Haven Waterway". Countryside Council for Wales. Archived from the original on 5 April 2010. Retrieved 15 January 2010.
  2. ^ "Milford Haven Waterway". Countryside Council for Wales. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
  3. ^ Wing Commander Ken McKay A Vision of Greatness: The History of Milford 1790–1990, Brace Harvatt Associates, 1989. ISBN 978-0-9515212-0-5